FAQs
There are 2 ways to monitor live response rates.
- Email: Faculty will receive an email the day the evaluation period opens to monitor response rates.
- GatorEvals Response Rate Monitor: Faculty can access monitor their response rates by going directly to the GatorEvals response rate dashboard opens in a new tab.
For faculty who opted into the midterm evaluation, midterm reports are available by logging into the GatorEvals central portal opens in a new tab. Midterm reports are made available to faculty one day after 50% of the course is completed. The date is calculated based on the Course Start and Course End date that is set in the Registrar system.
Students will be able to see evaluation results once they are made public. Results are typically reported by the following dates:
- Fall semesters by March 1
- Spring semesters by June 15
- Summer semesters by October 1
Your course may not be available to students for an evaluation for a number of reasons.
- Please visit the UF Schedule of Courses opens in a new tab to ensure you are listed as the Primary or Secondary instructor of record. If you do not see your name listed here, please contact your department staff to update Course Scheduling. It will typically take ~48 hours to sync in the GatorEvals system. Your department staff would then need to log into the GatorEvals portal opens in a new tab to set up the course for evaluation.
- By policy, some courses with designations such as Graduate Dissertation, Independent Study, Internship, etc. are NOT set up for evaluation.
- By policy, courses with fewer than 5 students are not set up for evaluation.
- There are no students enrolled in that particular section/class number in Course Scheduling. Please reach out to your department staff to check.
For additional questions, please contact the gatorevals-support@ufl.edu
No, only your department administrator and the University Evaluations Coordinator can change the dates of an evaluation period.
We recommend that faculty members devote 15 minutes of class time at the beginning of class so students can complete the evaluation. The instructor should not be present while the evaluation is being completed. If your course is online, students will receive a pop-up message to complete their evaluation, as well as a calendar invite and announcement. We recommend instructors add completing the evaluation on their syllabus assignment calendar.
Please visit Encourage Student Participation for additional ways to increase response rates.
If you have trouble logging-in to the system, contact the GatorEvals Support Team via gatorevals-support@ufl.edu
If a course/class number is missing or needs to be setup for evaluation, please contact your department administrator.
You are restricted to using the photo associated with you Gator1 card. If you wish to have an updated photo taken please contact the staff at ID Card Services for assistance.
The Public Results site displays a limited subset of evaluation results based on the primary affiliation of the instructor. When a section is added to the evaluations system, the primary affiliation of the instructor is examined. If that primary affiliation indicates that the instructor is a student, then the evaluation is not made available in the Public Results site. The reasoning is that at a certain level those evaluations could be considered part of the instructor's student record and thus subject to FERPA restrictions. There may be graduate assistants whose primary affiliation is no longer that of a student. The evaluations of those instructors will be made publicly available.
Yes, all students will be encouraged to complete course evaluations for all courses in which they are enrolled. Student Conduct Code violations will be taken into consideration when course evaluations are reviewed for faculty tenure and promotion purposes.
"IM" stands for Interpolated Median. You can find additional information on the GatorEvals Quantitative Results Guide.