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Periodically, information will be posted regarding Watermark’s Course Evaluations & Surveys (CES) tool to help users better understand Wichita State’s new course evaluation tool.

Today’s focus is on the basic timeline.

• The CES Administrator programs the pre-determined dates for each process. This pre-determined schedule cannot be modified.
• The CES tasks are sent at midnight on the scheduled start date and will end at 11:59 p.m. on the scheduled end date.
• The manage course process for instructors: Instructors have 10 days from notification of the opt-out window to delete courses from CES.
• CES evaluations will be open for students for varying lengths of time, depending upon the length of the course term:
  • Fall and spring one-week to four-week courses: Two days
  • Fall and spring five-week to 16+ week courses: 10 days
  • Summer one- and two-week courses: Two days
  • Summer four-week to 10+ week courses: Seven days
• Current CES results will be available at the end of the semester. Results will continue to remain accessible afterwards.
• The availability date will be the Friday after grades are due to the Registrar.
• There is a dedicated CES website that includes additional information.

For questions, contact Sandra Ranney at evaluations@ces.wichita.edu.

Periodically, information will be posted regarding Watermark’s Course Evaluations & Surveys (CES) tool to help users better understand Wichita State’s new course evaluation tool.

Today’s focus is on “Main Course Evaluation.”

• The “Main Course Evaluation” is a core set of questions that will be sent to all courses in which the instructor has not selected to “opt-out.”
• Instructors can find these questions in CES. While in “Manage Courses,” click on the semester’s project, and then click on “Preview” to view the questions. The questions can also be found in the FAQs on the CES website.
• Some courses are not eligible for the “Main Course Evaluation.” These are courses that are appointment-based, research, COOP, Intensive English, Market-Based and weekend-only courses.
• There is a dedicated CES website that includes additional information.

For questions, contact Sandra Ranney at evaluations@ces.wichita.edu.

Periodically, information will be posted regarding Watermark’s Course Evaluations & Surveys (CES) tool to help users better understand Wichita State’s new course evaluation tool.

Today’s focus is on “How to use CES?”

• While in Blackboard, instructors can access CES anytime by choosing “Tools” from the main menu and selecting “CES Course Evaluations.” It can also be directly accessed via the links provided in emails sent to the instructor.
• Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys Dashboard will appear.
• Widgets will appear on the dashboard. When a task is available for a course, it will display information. If not, it may state “No Project Found.”
• The manage courses widget will only appear when that option is open and available to instructors.
• There is a dedicated CES website that includes additional information.

For questions, contact Sandra Ranney at evaluations@ces.wichita.edu.

Periodically, information will be posted regarding Watermark’s Course Evaluations & Surveys (CES) tool to help users better understand Wichita State’s new course evaluation tool.

Today’s focus is on emails.

• CES uses email communication to send out information regarding the evaluation process.
• Emails will come from WSU Evaluations (evaluations@ces.wichita.edu).
• Emails are sent according to a specific timeline. CES operates from the course’s part-of-term, meaning the course start and end dates will determine when emails are sent out.
• If you teach courses that are in different terms, you will receive duplicate emails. These emails provide information that pertains to that part-of-term.
• The emails will also inform instructors if they need to take any specific actions regarding their course(s) within CES.
• There is a dedicated CES website that includes additional information.

For questions, contact Sandra Ranney at evaluations@ces.wichita.edu.

Watermark’s Course Evaluations & Surveys (CES) tool is Wichita State’s new course evaluation tool. Find more information over the coming weeks in WSU Today about CES.

Today’s focus is on “What Is CES?”

• CES is a course evaluation platform from Watermark. The evaluation portion of the platform is called “Course Evaluations & Surveys” and at WSU is referred to as CES.
• CES has replaced SPTEs as the source for course evaluations.
• CES is easy to use and is integrated with Blackboard.
• CES results are electronic and will be available at the end of the term the course is assigned.
• Using CES should increase response rates.
• There is a dedicated CES website that includes additional information.

For questions, contact Sandra Ranney at evaluations@ces.wichita.edu.

Want to present your scholarship at the 2024 Kansas Gender & Sexuality Conference? The deadline for submitting your presentation proposal, consisting of a 200-300 word summary/abstract, is Sept. 8.

The purpose of this free annual interdisciplinary conference is to showcase the gender- and sexuality-related scholarship happening across the state — highlighting the scholarly and creative work of students, faculty, staff and community partners — and to provide an opportunity to network across departments and universities within Kansas.

Submissions of original research, interactive training/workshops or other scholarship and creative work related to gender and/or sexuality from Kansas communities and universities are currently being accepted.

The Wichita Eagle has released the 2024 Best of Wichita nominations, and Wichita State has been nominated in several categories:

• Education – College/university: Wichita State University, WSU Tech
• Education – Vocational school: WSU Tech
• Education – Childcare: WSU Child Development Center
• Health & beauty – Audiologist/hearing center: Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic
• Things to do – Art gallery: Ulrich Museum of Art, WSU Shift Space, Clayton Staples Gallery
• Things to do – Bowling: Shocker Sports Grill and Lanes
• Things to do – Hotel: Hyatt Place at WSU
• Things to do – Museum: Ulrich Museum of Art, Lowell Holmes Museum of Anthropology
• Things to do – Live theatre: Wilner Auditorium
• Eat & drink – Lunch spot: WSU Food Truck Plaza, Sesame Mediterranean Kitchen
• Eat & drink – Bar/tavern: Social Tap Drinkery
• Eat & drink – Beer selection: Social Tap Drinkery
• Eat & drink – Mediterranean restaurant: Sesame Mediterranean Kitchen
• Eat & drink – Sports bar: Shocker Sports Grill and Lanes
• Eat & drink – Tacos: Fuzzy’s Taco Shop

The community can vote once a day for their choices in each category through the voting period until Friday Sept. 6.

Fairmount College students entering Wichita State under the 2024-25 undergraduate catalog will need to meet new competency requirements in order to graduate.

The nine competencies are designed to help students to have a clearer understanding of what skills they are developing by taking specific classes as liberal arts and sciences majors. They also promote the value of a liberal arts and sciences education and incorporate skills employers value in employees.

“This is beneficial for students to know how the courses they are taking in the college fit into a degree program in a liberal arts education,” Brien Bolin, senior associate dean for student success, said. “ The competencies also address nine core areas of skills that employers are seeking.”

Students will be able to meet competency requirements by using classes they are already taking to satisfy requirements for their major and the general education program.

“Our academic advisors will work closely with students to make sure they stay on track to graduate,” Patricia Phillips, director of the LAS Advising Center, said.

The competencies were created by a 14-member faculty committee representing majors across the three academic divisions within Fairmount College.

Life during the 16th century in France afforded few opportunities for women to make their voices heard. Its rigidly patriarchal culture expected them to be dutiful wives, mothers and daughters, not opinionated politicians, poets and painters, like their male counterparts.

But buried in the pages of manuscripts, annotating the margins, exists a historical record that, until recent decades, had gone undiscovered. Here, women could take part in literary production, if only privately and tangentially.

“Living in a patriarchal world, women learned to creatively negotiate a landscape that forbade them from writing,” Brigitte Roussel, associate professor of French, said.

The Latine Faculty and Staff Association wants to welcome new Latine employees to Shocker Nation:

• Iván Castillo, M.Ed. – Student programs coordinator for Student Engagement & Belonging
• Norma E. Logan – Branch manager for Campus Credit Union
• Ana Abente Rodríguez Alcalá – Career coach for Career Development
• Dr. Edma Delgado-Solorzano – Assistant professor of Spanish for Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures

The association looks forward to connecting with each and every one of them as they get settled into their new positions.