Evaluation of instructional materials

Part of my March to do list for the grant:

• An online evaluation form for the instructional materials will be developed and tested.

I originally thought I would work with our Electronic Resources Librarian, Evan Bend, coder extraordinaire, to develop an online form that would feed into a database where we could store all of the evaluations over time. But this week I realized I’m probably making it more complicated than it has to be.

I decided it would be better and easier to simply create a SurveyMonkey survey for each instructional tool developed. That way all of the results would be tabulated over time, no code would need tweaking when new tools were added, and each survey could be customized to more specifically evaluate each tool. We upgraded our monthly SurveyMonkey account to an annual version yesterday, so we won’t have any limitations on the number of surveys we can develop or responses we can receive. (Thanks, Rick!)

A survey will be linked to at the end of each tool we create. Easy peasy. I just hope people will take the time to tell us how we did!