Free-form Comments in TRACE
The TRACE survey has several questions that students answer with free-form comments. Since the survey is taken on line these comments can be provided to students as an aid to choosing courses and instructors. Student comments must conform to university appropriate use policy (item 26 on http://www.infoservices.neu.edu/aup.html). Several steps have been taken to ensure that the comments are appropriate:1. Comments are filtered by the CoursEval system to remove obscenities and other inappropriate words and phrases.
2. Faculty will be able to review their own evaluation reports, including student comments, before they are published to the university community. Generally, faculty will have access to their own results one day after grades are due through MyTRACE on their MyNEU portals. This web application allows faculty to customize, export and/or print their reports. After reviewing the student feedback from TRACE, faculty may email