Course evaluation

At the end of the last course week, you have to evaluate your MOOC. MOOCs should be evaluated each time they are run. The evaluation results help to determine whether the course can continue in the same form the next time or whether changes are required (and which).

LET will conduct the evaluation at the end of the last course week. The basis here is the standard LET evaluation form, setup with select survey, to facilitate a comparison with other courses. However, you can add your own questions.

Please submit the evaluation questions you want to add to the standard list and ask the contact person at LET to set up a survey at least one week before the end of the course. Do not forget to set an end date for the survey. The contact person at LET will send you the evaluation results.

Close course

To prepare your course for closing, think of communicating with students, verifying important dates, managing certificates, finishing grading, and scheduling a retrospective.

Archive or Re-Run your course

When the course reaches its end date, course teams have four options for Archive Mode (see archiving your edX course:

• Course Open for Enrollment – Discussion Forum Open without Moderation
• Course Open for Enrollment – Discussion Forum Closed
• Re-run Course in Self-Paced Mode – Students will have a chance to work toward a Verified certificate
• Course Closed for Enrollment – Removed from Site

Since the costs for a MOOC are very high, we would like your MOOC to run more than once. So most of ETH MOOCs run their courses every year, as long as the evaluation results are good. The evaluation results help you to improve the course, as do the more detailed data you can get from the Insights tool.

After the second re-run the courses are mostly transferred from ‘instructor-paced’ into ‘self-paced courses‘.