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Accessing Instructor Reports
To access your available reports, select from the following options (log in with netID and password):
- Visit the Blue system directly (https://northwestern.bluera.com/northwestern)
- Sign in to CAESAR and search through "My Reports". Instructions: https://www.northwestern.edu/ses/faculty-instructors/ctecs/index.html
- Follow the link from a system-generated email
- Follow the link from your course in CANVAS
- Select Courses from the left-hand menu
- Select CTEC in the navigation
- Click link to CTEC - Reports (Instructors Only)
- The "Search CTECs" navigation in CAESAR will display reports available to the Northwestern community. Please review the "Evaluation Results" tab in the CTEC Guidelines section for more information.
- Access to course survey data gathered prior to Winter 2016 will only be through CAESAR and the Cognos BI reporting application.
- Course survey data gathered Winter 2016 and later will be linked through both CAESAR and Blue, and also available through the Cognos BI reporting application.
Review and Modify a Course Survey
Navigate to the course survey
Follow a system generated email link (these are sent prior to the start of an evaluation period) or log in to Blue directly (https://northwestern.bluera.com/northwestern), and select a course from the list of courses displayed. This will be a list of courses that you have been added as an instructor in CAESAR.
Review the course survey
To review the course survey in its current state:
- Click Preview Questionnaire.
- When you are finished, close the browser tab with the survey.
Modify by adding questions
You may modify the course survey by creating and adding up to 6 custom-worded questions. Instructors (Kellogg and Law not included) will receive email notifications when access begins and have 7 days to add custom questions. Access ends at 11:59 pm on the 7th day. Evaluations begin the very next day.
You can do this in the Create custom-worded questions section. Up to 3 questions may use a rating scale and up to 3 may be open ended questions. Note: You may need to click Show Selection to see this option.
To add rating-scale questions:
- Click Edit.
- Type your first rating-scale question in the question field.
- Click Close.
- Repeat as needed for additional questions.
- Click Save to save your work. This will store your questions if you are not able to finish modifying the survey at this time.
- You must click Submit to finalize adding questions to the course survey.
- Preview the questions in Preview Questionnaire.
You have the option to include or not include questions with the Select/Deselect buttons. If you update the questions or select/deselect at a later date, click Update.
To add open-ended questions:
- Click Edit.
- Type your first open ended question in the question field.
- Click Close.
- Repeat as needed for additional questions.
- Click Save to save your work. This will store your questions if you are not able to finish modifying the survey at this time.
- You must click Submit to finalize adding questions to the course survey.
- Preview the questions in Preview Questionnaire.
You have the option to include or not include questions with the Select/Deselect buttons. If you update the questions or select/deselect at a later date, click Update.
Copy questions to/from another course
You can copy customized questions from one course to another, if applicable. Once you have submitted your questions for one course, you will see a Copy button.
Note that this will overwrite any customized questions in the destination course survey.
- Start from the survey that you want to copy the question TO.
- Select From in the Copy drop-down menu.
- Select the course to copy from in the drop-down menu.
- Click Copy. (The copied question(s) will appear; it will have overwritten any previous customized questions.)
- Click Save.
- Click Submit.
Review Response Rates and Responses
Review response rates
Follow the system-generated email link or the CTEC - Response Rate (Instructors Only) link in CANVAS. This will only be accessible during the evaluation period.
Review responses for your courses in Blue.
Log in to Blue: https://northwestern.bluera.com/northwestern/
- Select a report to view.
- You will see a Table of Contents. Click on a section link or scroll down to view responses. You have the option to view responses on the screen or download as a PDF, which you can save, print or send in an email.
Examples of responses with graphics: