Eval25 vs High-Resolution Course Feedback

Eval25 is a web evaluation system for higher-education institutions, serving administrators, instructors, and students. Institutions can create custom questions for courses, instructors, training sessions, classroom spaces, and other subjects. Students complete evaluations on computers, smartphones, or tablets, including feedback about physical and virtual spaces. Administrators track response activity in real time, send reminders, and offer incentives such as early access to grades. Reports can be customized, shared, exported as Excel or XML, and printed as PDFs. An LTI integration lets users open Eval25 from a learning-management-system link, with credentials required for installation. The system can import space-satisfaction data into the 25Live scheduling system. CollegeNET says Eval25 encrypts sensitive information in transit and data at rest, is SOC 2 and PCI-DSS compliant, and undergoes yearly audits plus quarterly external network scans. Space satisfaction, inter-institutional benchmarking, and additional 25Live capabilities are described as future features. Pricing is available through an account manager, which also provides product information and demonstrations.

High-Resolution Course Feedback (HRCF) is a free web service that gives instructors weekly anonymous student feedback about class mood. Each week it randomly selects students to provide feedback, with the aim of gathering representative responses while reducing survey fatigue. Students receive survey requests in their inboxes through unique links. Four default questions ask what students liked, what remains confusing, what the teaching team should know, and for a course experience rating on a five-point scale. Instructors can add questions for topics they want to address that week. Surveys open Monday at noon PT, reminders go out Thursday at noon PT, and the instructor digest arrives Sunday at 4pm PT. The digest includes participation rates, responses grouped by question with visualizations, and a graph showing class mood over time. HRCF says it does not track which student submitted which feedback. To get started, users create an account with an institutional email, submit a course survey form, and send a school profile page and generated course ID for review. A roster, custom questions, and admin list can be prepared while approval is pending.