The "Course Section Trend Analysis" is one of several reports in HelioCampus AC used to compile and analyze students' responses to course evaluations. This document explains how to navigate the report options, and how to run and read the resulting report.
Every HelioCampus AC Course Evaluation report has a panel of report parameters similar to the one shown below. The key parameters, and their behavior are outlined here:
Aggregate Level
You must choose a level at which HelioCampus AC will combine and order your data. (Only one can be selected.)
Options are: Instructor or Course Section
Statistics
Three options (you may select multiple)
Average
Mode
Standard Deviation
Compare With
Four options
Institution
College
Department
Course
Term
Select the semester to be reported.
You can select multiple semesters.
College
Instructors can only see their own evaluations.
Most instructors cannot toggle "College".
Department
Instructors can only see their own evaluations.
Most instructors cannot toggle "Department".
Course
This field may be left blank to show all courses in the report.
It may appear empty, but begin typing the course name to trigger the filter.
Select from courses that were available during that semester.
You can select multiple courses or leave blank for all courses.
Instructor
Instructors can only see their own evaluations.
Most instructors cannot toggle "Instructor".
Course Section
You may select up to 10 course sections or leave blank for all course sections.
Survey
You must select a survey, even if only one survey is listed.
Show Comments
Determines whether the responses to memo-type questions are included in this trend analysis.
Reset Parameters
Resets all parameters back to default values. This is useful when you have made several attempts. Since multiple fields allow you to select multiple items, resetting parameters quickly erases all selected options.
Run Report
This may take several seconds to complete.
The page will load in a new view. (Explained in Report Details, next.)
Report Details
Depending on the parameters chosen, you may see information on the screen. However, in most instances, the system will say to export to view results. You are encouraged to always export to see the condensed view, which is a custom-designed report, requested by UW-Madison.
Export
(The on-screen display of the report is not as nicely formatted as other reports. Usually, users opt to export the data into a .csv file for better analysis.)
Click Export to export this information to a .pdf, .csv or .xlsx file (pictured below).
