High-Resolution Course Feedback vs IOTA360 Evaluations

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.

IOTA360 Evaluations is online course evaluation software for higher education institutions. Institutions can use a managed service for scheduling, reminder emails, survey delivery, LMS integration, student and faculty support, reporting, and results permissions, or administer the system in-house. It supports unlimited evaluation sessions within an academic term and dynamic scheduling for courses of different lengths. Reports include instructor benchmarks and comparisons, graphical summaries, word-frequency and historical analysis, and a custom report builder. Results can be exported to Excel, PDF, and CSV; historical data can be imported from TXT, CSV, and XML formats. The software can run standalone or integrate with an LMS, campus portal, or SIS through methods including LTI, LDAP, CAS, Shibboleth, SAML, Google Auth, and Custom API. Stored responses are not linked to identifying student information in reports or downloads unless students identify themselves in comments. The brochure describes anonymized, encrypted data, FERPA compliance, and role-based access. Students can submit evaluations and faculty can view results on mobile devices.