These videos are designed to help faculty and administrators conduct an evaluation using online evaluation forms. They are not intended to dictate quality standards for teaching and evaluating. In other words, these videos are meant to help guide evaluators through an online evaluation* by providing possible places within the online course where evaluation criteria may be located, but please keep in mind the evaluation criteria may be found elsewhere within the online course.

*Please Note: If a class is hybrid, the online portion of the course is evaluated, not the face-to-face portion (Tenure Review and Faculty Evaluation Manual). Therefore, Faculty Evaluation Form O and Syllabus Checklist O are used for online and hybrid courses. The term “online evaluation” used here and in the videos applies to online and hybrid courses. Please see the Forms page for the online/hybrid evaluation documents; the Syllabus Checklist for Online or Hybrid courses is also provided below.

A sample annotated syllabus for an online course is provided to illustrate the items in Syllabus Checklist O, which are specific to online evaluations. In addition, the DEFT syllabus template is available for use but is not mandatory.

Training Videos

This video series is designed to help Southwestern College faculty and administrators conduct an evaluation using online evaluation forms.

Introduction and Syllabus Checklist
Objectives and Organization
Expertise and Methodologies
Communication & Interaction

This video provides an overview and explores the Syllabus Checklist.

This video focuses on pages 1-2 of Faculty Evaluation Form O.

This video focuses on Expertise in Subject Area and Teaching Methodologies.

This video focuses on page 3 of Faculty Evaluation Form O.

Completion Quiz

After watching all four training videos, please take the Committee Training Quiz. Upon completion, you will receive a confirmation on your screen, which you can save for your records to verify that you have watched the training videos.