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Course Evaluations (Course Feedback Forms)

Student feedback on their classes provides valuable insight about the student experience that contributes to effective teaching and learning.

Request Help or Report a Problem with a Course Evaluation

Email Crimson Service Desk for help or to report a problem with one of your course evaluations in Blue. Additional information for assistance with other questions is available below.

For More Information About Course Evaluations at WSU

College Course Evaluation Coordinators

  • At WSU, each college determines the question sets on the feedback form for their courses, the dates the form is available, and other logistics. Instructors should contact their department or their college coordinator with questions on when and how course feedback forms will be delivered to their students.

Enterprise Systems

Contact Crimson Service Desk for all technical planning, implementation, help, training, and questions on using Blue, including:

  • Setting up a course evaluation in your college
  • Generating reports from course evaluations in Blue
  • Checking response rates on live course evaluations
  • Customer support for faculty, staff, and students
  • Training for your college’s course evaluation coordinator
  • Training on using Blue or education on Blue features for faculty, staff, and students
  • Rollout over time of new features

Office Of Assessment Of Teaching And Learning (ATL)

Contact atl@wsu.edu for consultation on course evaluation questions, policies, and interpretation of results and reports, including:

  • Designing or refining course evaluation question sets in your college
  • Interpreting results
  • Developing college-level policies
  • Using some results as part of program-level assessment (of curricular effectiveness, student engagement, etc.)
  • Analyzing response rates
  • Developing question banks and validating question sets

Enterprise Systems Group

Contact

Send General Requests to CrimsonServiceDesk.wsu.edu

Web Services

As Washington State University moves toward a more seamless and integrated environment, its internal systems, applications, and processes must communicate dynamically in real time. Web services have become a key component in realizing this goal and also in revitalizing legacy systems to provide real-time information across the organization. Enterprise Systems develops and supports a number of web services available for use by departmental applications.

WSU ITS University Information Systems Services Web Services

Notes:

  • In order to gain access to any of the following ITS supplied Web Services, please contact enterprise.systems@lists.wsu.edu. Security to these services is currently administered with an IP Security Policy. Please supply each machine IP that will need access to the web service(s), along with a short description of each, indicating who’s machine (department or person), the machine’s DNS name, and what type of machine (developer’s workstation, test server, production server, etc).
  • All “Test” Web Services go against Test data. Any “Test” Active Directory related Web Services, go against a Test version of Active Directory called “DEVAD”.

Enterprise Web Services:

 CentralPaymentSite_WS
Description:

  • The Central Payment Site is a toolkit that allows WSU departments to develop secure e-commerce applications that meet the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards. The Central Payment Site (CPS) toolkit consists of web service and a web page. The web service is used to insert and read information to/from a secure database.

Location:

  • Test:
    https://test-ewebservice.wsu.edu/CentralPaymentSite_WS/CentralPaymentSite_WS.asmx
    Production:
    https://ewebservice.wsu.edu/CentralPaymentSite_WS/CentralPaymentSite_WS.asmx
WSUQueryADAttributes_WS
Description:

  • For a given WSU ID or AD User Name (NID), query Active Directory for any given attribute(s) such as WSU ID, NID, Display Name, Full Name, Last Name, First Name, Email, Home Phone, Department, etc. Also does checks for AD group membership (GetGroups, IsInAnyGroup, IsInAllGroups).

Location:

  • Test:
    https://test-aiswebservice.wsu.edu/WSUQueryADAttributes_WS/WSUQueryADAttributes_WS.asmx
    Production:
    https://aiswebservice.wsu.edu/WSUQueryADAttributes_WS/WSUQueryADAttributes_WS.asmx
WSUAdAuthenticateUser_WS
Description:

  • Authenticate a given AD User Name and Password against Active Directory and optionally retrieve groups memberships (GetGroups, IsInAnyGroup, IsInAllGroups), and/or AD attributes such as WSU ID, NID, Display Name, Full Name, Last Name, First Name, Email, Home Phone, Department, etc.
    Notes:
    Use of SSL (HTTPS) between web server and client is REQUIRED for all consumers of this Web Service. Without SSL, UserName and Password information can be intercepted between client and server.

Location:

  • Test:
    https://test-aiswebservice.wsu.edu/WSUADAuthenticateUser_WS/WSUADAuthenticateUser_WS.asmx
    Production:
    https://aiswebservice.wsu.edu/WSUADAuthenticateUser_WS/WSUADAuthenticateUser_WS.asmx
WSUEmployeeInfo_WS
Description:

  • Query employee-related information (Type, Status, Status Reason) for a given WSU Id.

Location:

  • Test:
    https://test-aiswebservice.wsu.edu/WSUEmployeeInfo_WS/WSUEmployeeInfo_WS.asmx
    Production:
    https://aiswebservice.wsu.edu/WSUEmployeeInfo_WS/WSUEmployeeInfo_WS.asmx
WSUConvertIdentifier_WS
Description:

  • Query a given WSU Associate Identifier and convert to another (SSN to WSU ID, or WSU ID to SSN).

Location:

  • Test:
    https://test-aiswebservice.wsu.edu/WSUConvertIdentifier_WS/WSUConvertIdentifier_WS.asmx
    Production:
    https://aiswebservice.wsu.edu/WSUConvertIdentifier_WS/WSUConvertIdentifier_WS.asmx