Student Guide

You can access your course evaluations in any of the following ways:

1. Log in to https://my-pnw.bluera.com/ with your Purdue Northwest credentials.
2. Follow the links included in email communications.
   
3. Access Brightspace and click the link in the pop-up box upon login, or click on “Course Evaluations” in the “Course Tools” drop-down menu.

Yes, instructors will not be able to identify which responses to the evaluation are yours (as long as you do not provide any identifiable information about yourself).

No. Instructors cannot see which students have completed the course evaluation.

Instead, they will be told how many students and the corresponding percentage of the class enrollment have completed the course evaluation. They can monitor response rates in real time while surveys are open to students.

Instructors receive the course evaluation results only after the final grades have been submitted. Even then, they will not be able to identify individual student responses.

If you have technical issues logging in with your ID or password, please contact the Customer Service Center at (219) 989-2888.

If you can log in to other Purdue Northwest systems (e.g. MyPNW, Brightspace) and are still having problems with your course evaluations, please send an email to course_evaluations@pnw.edu.

If you can log in but do not see your course(s) or have any other problems completing your course evaluation(s), please contact course_evaluations@pnw.edu.

The evaluation schedule is determined by the length of the course and the official course end date as listed in Banner.

Full semester (16-week) course evaluations run the last 2 weeks of the semester (before finals week). Evaluations for shorter parts of the term begin on the Monday of the last week of class and continue throughout the following week after the class ends.

No. Once the course evaluation availability window for the semester has passed, you will not be able to complete your course evaluation(s).

You will receive an email to your PNW email account with the link to the survey.

Links to your course evaluations will also appear in Brightspace when the surveys are available to complete.

No, you cannot complete an evaluation for a course if you have withdrawn from or dropped it.

You must be on the class roster at the time of the survey to complete the course evaluation.

Yes and no. Yes, you can edit your responses if you have previously saved your evaluation. No, you cannot edit your response if you have already submitted your evaluation.

For example, if you are unable to complete the evaluation in one session, make sure you save your responses by clicking the “SAVE” button. You can then go back and edit your responses until you submit the final evaluation.

After you complete the evaluation, click the “SUBMIT” button. Once you click submit, you will no longer be able to edit your responses.  If you only save your responses and never click the submit button, your responses will not be included in the evaluation results for that course.

No, you are not able to skip questions on the survey.

Yes, you can access the survey using any device with a wireless internet connection (smartphone, iPad, tablet, laptop, etc.). You can also check with your instructor to see if they are setting aside time in class to complete the surveys.

No, course evaluation email communication can only be sent to your official PNW email account.

The system is set to send reminders. You will receive two reminder messages during the survey timeframe.

Once you have completed all your surveys, you will no longer receive these messages.

• You should look for an email addressed from “Course Evaluations” (course_evaluations@pnw.edu)
• Subject line for the initial message: “Course Evaluations now available – Please complete today!”
• Subject line for reminder message: “Tell them what you think – Complete your course evaluations NOW.”
• Subject line for final reminder message: “Last chance – Complete your Course Evaluations TODAY!”