End of Semester Faculty FAQ

Go to Courses@Penn. Then select “Course Evaluation Reports” in the middle lefthand tile.

Student course enrollments are loaded into the Penn Course Evaluations system for all courses selected by the Schools for evaluation. Students log in with their PennKey and will see a list of courses to evaluate. Students who want to see their grades before grades are officially released can opt out or complete the evaluation for each section separately.  The process follows a series of steps: 

1. Students are asked to answer a full course evaluation (about 20 questions, the full evaluation takes about 10 minutes). 
2. If a student opts out of those questions, they are asked if they will answer three questions. 
3. Finally, students can opt out again and can see their grades but cannot go back and evaluate the course. 

Once they start an evaluation, students have the option to save and come back later to complete any given evaluation. Once an evaluation has been submitted, changes cannot be made. 

Students receive an announcement via email to let them know once the course evaluations are available. If they do not complete the evaluation, they may receive one or more email reminders until the evaluation period ends. During the evaluation window (which typically lasts from the last week of the semester until the day after grades are due), students who have not evaluated their courses will be prompted to do so when they check their grades in Path@Penn.  

Faculty can and should talk to students about evaluations and encourage them to fill the forms out. 

Yes, they can opt out or wait to see grades after the evaluation period is over.

No. In order to preserve the integrity of the evaluation responses, evaluations must be completed within a reasonable period after completion of the course and before grades are available to students. 

Instructors are not able to see their course evaluations for a given semester until after the grade submission period is over for that semester.