Course Operations Survey (formerly Faculty/Course Survey)

Guidelines for Faculty Members

Course Validation for Faculty Members

In the beginning of course validation (September or January of each semester), the Chair/Director/Assistant of your department/school, or a Program Director/Assistant if you teach the Chang School or graduate course(s), will send you an email notifying that the list of courses to be evaluated is ready for your review. You will be asked to validate this list.
Note that, depending on the courses that you teach, you may receive separate notification emails from your undergraduate program, graduate studies program(s) and/or continuing education program(s). You must respond to each notification email you receive in order to validate all courses that you teach!
To validate the list of courses, log into my.torontomu.ca portal using your TMU ID and password.
On my.torontomu.ca, in the "Participate" section, click the "Course Operations Survey" link. This link can also be found under the "Apps" tab, "Other TMU Applications" section.
Click "Validation" to view the list of your courses.
A new window with the list of courses that you teach will appear.
Please verify the list carefully.
If you find any course that you DO NOT teach, unselect it by clicking the check box on the left side.
If one or a few courses that you teach ARE NOT on the list, use the Comments box to indicate that a certain course has been omitted.
Use the Comments box to indicate any other error that you may find on the list.
Once you have finished verifying the list, click the Submit button. The Chair/Director/Assistant of your department will receive an automatic note with the list of confirmed courses and errors if indicated by you.
Note that the online and paper-based surveys will be created according to the list of courses verified and confirmed by you! If you DO NOT verify and confirm the list of courses, the surveys will automatically be created for all courses that appear on your original list.

 "Paper-Based Survey" option has been suspended beginning Winter 2020

Survey Questions

The Course Operations Survey will include only the following five course operations questions that speak to the student educational experience:

I received timely feedback on my assignments.
The course handouts/postings contain all of the information I need about the organization of this course.
Students are treated with fairness.
The class meets as scheduled and on time.
The instructor is available for consultation as specified on the course handouts/ postings.

When and How Students Can Access the Surveys

The online surveys are available for students to complete in Fall and Winter semesters starting from Friday of the 10th academic week at 6:00 p.m. The online surveys commence on Monday of the 12th academic week at 6:00 a.m.
The online surveys can be accessed by students via the "Course Operations Survey" link on my.torontomu.ca portal. Students can also access the online surveys via TMU mobile application at m.torontomu.ca.
Paper-based in-class evaluation (currently suspended beginning Winter 2020) normally takes place in Fall and Winter semesters during 12th and 13th academic week.

Course Operations Survey Reports

Course Operation Survey (COS) results are available online via the "Course Operation Survey" link on my.torontomu.ca, "Reports" tab. The COS reports are presented in the form of frequency distribution. They are available for individual faculty members and contract lecturers only.

For tenure-stream (probationary and tenured) and limited term faculty

Information collected through the Course Operation Survey (COS) is available to individual faculty members through the COS portal for formative purposes and shall not be included in faculty annual reports.
Faculty members may choose to include COS results in their teaching dossiers for the purpose of tenure and promotion but in no case shall be required to submit COS results. No negative inference will be drawn as a result of their absence.

For CUPE Unit 1 & 2 contract lecturers

Course Operation Survey (COS) results are not automatically added to the CUPE Unit 1 currency reports. CUPE 3904 Unit 1 members who want to include these COS results in their currency reports must upload them manually.
A negative inference will not be drawn if these are not submitted. In addition, Contract Lecturer Appointments Committees (CLACs) should not provide additional scoring to applicants who provide their COS scores for the above noted semesters in their application.