Course Survey Tool Recommendations?

[MKBickford]

Hi Canvas Community!

My institution is currently searching for a course survey tool that integrates with Canvas. Integration with our SIS (Anthology Student) is also an ideal feature. We have already hosted demos for Blue by Explorance and Watermark and will have one with Class Climate by Scantron this week. Please let me know:

- If you have also hosted demos with any of these vendors and what your impressions were

- If you use or have previously used any of these tools and your experience

- Any insights you have into the cost of the tools and whether it was worthwhile for your institution

We are interested in chatting with anyone who has leveraged these tools as we look to select one of them. 

[candace_girard]

Hello,

We have been very successful using Blue in all of our schools across Tufts University (Canvas LMS/PeopleSoft SIS/OASIS Clinical Scheduling). Explorance is a great vendor, and Blue is a great product. Happy to Zoom and discuss.

Thanks,

Candace Girard

candace.girard@tufts.edu

[chriscas]

Hi @MKBickford,

We have been using Watermark Course Evaluations and Surveys (formerly EvaluationKit) at my institution for about 10 years now.  We chose it because everything could be done solely based off of an integration with Canvas (no SIS integration needed).  It has worked very well for us and done almost everything we needed.  The only thing I wish it had was more perhaps interactive reporting options/dashboards that we could share with Department Chairs and Deans.  Feel free to send me a DM here if you'd like any more details.

-Chris

[Jeff_F]

@MKBickford - I echo Chris here:  We have been using Watermark Course Evaluations and Surveys (formerly EvaluationKit) at my institution for about 10 years now.

The survey prompt is timed and presents itself to the students and instructor when you wish for it. For us, this is the second last week of the term. Once the data intake is complete an admin performs a review and releases the reports to the instructors and admins. These reports are accessible from within Canvas or via the Watermark web site. We use sets of Likert scale questions as well as open ended questions. 

Perhaps this is now resolved but the last time I tried to create an automated process to export the data to our data warehouse I was unable. I was wanting to merge the course / instructor survey data with other data sources such as the evaluations so as to create a one stop dashboard for the administrators. So we implemented a semi-automated workaround which works but does require staff time.