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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Faculty Teaching Online Courses<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Congratulations on an excellent start of the fall 2016 semester. Survey results from online students for the Start of Term (SOT) survey, which was conducted between 5 -14 September, are currently available to you. Consistent with “best
practices” in online courses, the SOT survey seeks to foster critically important dialogs between instructors and students, as well as positively influencing course structure. The purpose of this survey is to equip you with initial feedback and general impressions
formed by students. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Retrieval of Students’ Comments on the Start of the Fall 2016 Semester<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Individual instructors will be able to access the results from the Start of Term (SOT) surveys in the same fashion as you currently access the SRTEs from their courses. Each instructor can locate the Start of
Term results for each course by navigating to your Pearson LearningStudio course shell from the fall 2016 W1 term, select “Course Admin,” and then “Survey Results” from the menu.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Background Information<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">The Start of Term (SOT) online course survey, conducted at the start of each fall and spring semester, serves to identify students’ attitudes, values, and beliefs about education and to help faculty
address them effectively. The SOT also amplifies the opportunities for constructing meaningful dialogues between instructors and students, while elevating the campus’ climate of mutual respect.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Department Head Access<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">CFEI will prepare a summary report for each Department Head presenting aggregated quantitative and qualitative SOT feedback from students taking courses within their department. For confidentiality and end-user
convenience, these departmental SOT results will be placed into the same COURSE EVALUATION file. This is the same file location that is currently being used to store paper-based SRTE results. Each department head can use their unique sign-in privileges to
access their department’s aggregated results. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Additional Questions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">For additional information or specific question, please direct all inquiries to CFEI (<span lang="EN" style="color:#666666">903-886-5511</span>) or to Dr. Dave Giles at 903-468-8195 or
<a href="mailto:dave.giles@tamuc.edu">dave.giles@tamuc.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Dave Giles, Ph.D.
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#7F7F7F">l</span><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black"> Educational Assessment Coordinator<br>
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Center for Faculty Excellence & Innovation
</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#7F7F7F">l </span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Academic Affairs
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">P.O. Box 3011 Commerce, Tx 75429-3011</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Tel. 903.468.8195
</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#7F7F7F">l</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black"> Fax 903.886.5991</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#1F497D">
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<a href="http://www.tamuc.edu/cfei"><span style="color:blue">www.tamuc.edu/cfei</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#1F497D">Texas A&M University-Commerce</span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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