There are three options to get some anonymized midterm feedback from your students about how your course is going. As all are considered ‘self-initiated’ evaluations, none are connected with or count towards the formal end-of-quarter evaluations that go into faculty review dossiers. They’re just for your own information.
Option 1. Create a midterm survey directly on Canvas. Go to “Quizzes” and add a quiz (+Quiz button). Then, below the Quiz Instructions window, choose “Ungraded survey” as your Quiz Type (screenshot 1 below) and choose your other preferred options. Add your questions using the “Questions” tab at the top of the page (screenshot 2 below). You can choose different question types such as multiple choice, or fill in the blank from a dropdown menu.
This is probably the best option overall because it keeps the students on Canvas. However, you do have to come up the questions yourself. As a guide to thinking about what questions to include, I’ve linked to a PDF of the 20 questions used in the midterm evaluation template DTEI created on the EEE platform. If you don’t want to deal with making up questions, try Option 2 below instead.
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Option 2. Use the EEE+Evaluations Midterm Feedback Form, which is still available. This is the second template in the screenshot below. It is a pre-made feedback form, so you will get answers to all 20 questions whether relevant or not. These are the same questions as in the PDF linked above. Log in to EEE and find it at:
https://evaluations.eee.uci.edu/template/library
Essentially, all you have to do is click “publish” and follow the instructions to activate it and connect it to a specific class. You can set an ‘availability’ window.
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Option 3. Create your own template on the same EEE+Evaluations site. (A test of this is shown in the screenshot above as “Midterm feedback on remote learning”.) Use the “Create a new template” button. This will take a bit of time as you have to add questions one at a time; however the process is aided by a dropdown menu offering choices between text response and multiple choice questions. When done, publish just as you would for option #2. I can’t offhand think of any good reason to choose this option over #1, but it does exist.
For both options #2 and #3, you return to the EEE site to see the results.