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COURSE EVALUATION

Improve teaching and learning with course evaluation software built for higher education

evasys is a course evaluation software designed specifically for colleges and universities. Institutional research teams, academic affairs leaders, instructors, and administrators can manage the entire evaluation process centrally, automatically, and securely. From questionnaire design to AI-supported analysis, every step takes place in one scalable system built to support thousands of evaluations each year.

  • Purpose-built for higher education, with a focus on course evaluations, continuous improvement, and accreditation requirements
  • Interactive dashboards and comparative reports that support data-informed decisions across academic departments and institutional leadership
  • Online, paper-based, and hybrid evaluations for individual courses, departments, colleges, or institution-wide programs

Colleges, universities, and educational organizations around the world rely on evasys for their survey and evaluation processes.

A course evaluation gives students a structured opportunity to provide feedback on their classes, instructors, and learning experiences. Course evaluation software such as evasys automates this process and turns student feedback into transparent, comparable, and actionable information.

Institutional research and assessment teams can coordinate evaluations across schools, colleges, and departments. Instructors receive timely feedback they can use to reflect on and improve their courses. Academic leaders gain an aggregated view of teaching quality across the institution, while students can easily participate online or from a mobile device.

Common course evaluation challenges evasys helps solve:

  • Complex institutional structures: Manage evaluations across multiple colleges, departments, programs, course formats, and stakeholder groups in one central system.
  • Limited resources: Automated workflows reduce the administrative workload for teams with limited staff or IT capacity.
  • Low response rates: User-friendly questionnaires, automated reminders, and mobile participation help increase student engagement.
  • Privacy and anonymity: Protect student confidentiality and support anonymous participation, including in smaller course groups.
  • Disconnected systems: Integrate evasys with student information systems, campus management platforms, and learning management systems to create consistent evaluation processes and reports.

With evasys, every course evaluation becomes a clearly documented step toward stronger teaching, continuous improvement, and accreditation readiness.

How evasys supports your course evaluation process

As specialized survey and evaluation software for higher education, evasys supports every stage of the course evaluation process, from questionnaire design and distribution to reporting and institutional analysis.

PARTICIPATORY FEEDBACK PROCESSES

Increase participation and collect more relevant feedback

Teaching and learning improve through dialogue. evasys helps institutions create transparent and engaging feedback processes that encourage participation and generate more meaningful results.

  • Allow students to participate from any location using a smartphone, tablet, computer, or QR code.
  • Give instructors access to timely student feedback and tools for responding to results.
  • Monitor response rates in real time and take targeted steps to increase participation.
  • Add institution-wide, department-specific, or instructor-defined questions to evaluations.
  • Communicate results and follow-up actions clearly and in context.
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INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION

Streamline course evaluations with greater transparency and control

evasys automates course evaluations from beginning to end. This saves time, reduces manual errors, and allows institutional teams to focus more of their resources on assessment and continuous improvement.

  • Create recurring evaluation cycles for colleges, schools, departments, programs, or individual courses.
  • Use existing course, instructor, and enrollment data from your student information or campus management system.
  • Automatically generate and distribute reports to instructors, deans, assessment teams, and academic leadership.
  • Analyze results in real time using HTML reports and drill-down functions.
  • Connect evasys to your existing systems through APIs, SOAP API, or the evasys Data Bridge.
Automatisierter Kreislauf von Befragungen.
HIGH-QUALITY FEEDBACK

Support honest feedback with secure and accessible evaluations

evasys helps you reach students at the right time and through the right channel, creating the conditions for high participation and candid, useful feedback.

  • Choose online, paper-based, or hybrid evaluations to meet the needs of different courses and student populations.
  • Create multilingual and accessible online surveys that support WCAG 2.1 Level AA requirements.
  • Protect anonymity and support privacy-conscious data collection.
  • Send automated email reminders to students who have not yet completed an evaluation.
  • Integrate evaluations into learning management systems such as Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace, or ILIAS through LTI.
Qualität der Antworten durch evasys.
ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS

Turn student feedback into informed decisions

evasys transforms evaluation data into clear, actionable insights that support instructors, assessment professionals, academic leaders, and institutional decision-makers.

  • Generate automated reports and comparative analyses in real time.
  • Explore results through interactive dashboards and visualizations.
  • Use topic extraction and sentiment analysis to evaluate open-ended student comments.
  • Apply thresholds and visual indicators to identify courses or areas that may require attention.
  • Create audience-specific reports for instructors, department chairs, deans, institutional research teams, and senior leadership.
Aussagekräftige Reports.

How evasys turns course evaluations into measurable improvements in teaching

evasys transforms student course evaluations into structured, comparable results that can be used to identify priorities and guide concrete actions.

From evaluation goals to results in a few clear steps

A course evaluation with evasys follows a consistent and repeatable process.

  1. Define the purpose of the evaluation, create organizational units such as colleges, schools, or departments, and import course and instructor data through CSV, XML, or an integration with your student information or campus management system.
  2. Create a reusable questionnaire and generate evaluations for online, paper-based, or hybrid delivery. You can also use our free course evaluation questionnaire template as a starting point.
  3. As soon as responses are submitted, results become available in real time directly in the browser, with no additional software required.

Reports for every audience, from instructor feedback to institution-wide analysis

evasys provides individual HTML and PDF reports that help instructors reflect on their courses, as well as aggregated reports for department chairs, deans, institutional research teams, and academic leadership. With the evasys insights analytics module, institutions can also use interactive dashboards, trend analysis, and AI-supported analysis of open-ended responses.

Benchmark results across departments, colleges, and academic terms

Results can be filtered and compared by department, program, college, course type, or academic term. This allows academic units to monitor trends over time and helps institutional leaders identify differences and patterns in the student learning experience across the institution.

Move from evaluation results to continuous improvement

Instructors can review their individual results and discuss relevant findings with students. Assessment teams, department chairs, and deans can use aggregated data to define actions and document progress across multiple evaluation cycles. This creates a reliable evidence base for program review, accreditation, and institutional improvement. To make sure student feedback leads to visible action, evasys engagement helps close the feedback loop. Instructors can respond to student feedback and communicate planned actions, giving students a clearer understanding of how their input contributes to teaching and learning improvements.

See how evasys turns evaluation results into actionable insights

Discover how colleges and universities use automated reports, interactive dashboards, and institution-wide comparisons to make teaching quality more visible and streamline their course evaluation processes.

Why evasys goes beyond generic survey software

Generic survey tools are designed for simple questionnaires, not for the complex structures and recurring evaluation processes of colleges and universities. evasys combines automated course evaluations, advanced analytics, and higher education-specific workflows in one centralized solution.

  • Make continuous improvement more efficient: Automate course evaluations across departments, colleges, and campuses while generating reliable evidence for program review and accreditation.
  • Gain insights instead of managing raw data: AI-supported analysis, topic extraction, sentiment analysis, and interactive dashboards turn quantitative and qualitative feedback into clear priorities.
  • Scale across your institution: Use evasys for a single department or manage thousands of course evaluations across an entire university system.
  • Integrate with your existing technology: Connect evasys to student information and campus management systems through APIs, SOAP API, or the evasys Data Bridge, and integrate it into LMS platforms such as Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle, or ILIAS through LTI.
  • Protect sensitive data: Benefit from an ISO 27001-certified information security management system, GDPR-compliant data processing, secure hosting, and configurable anonymity protections.

What universities say about evasys course evaluation software

With evasys, institutions can replace disconnected and manual evaluation processes with one centrally managed system, improving data quality, response rates, and comparability across departments, programs, and academic years.

Bielefeld University

Bielefeld University has used evasys as its central course evaluation solution since 2017. Through a SOAP API integration with the university’s campus management system, evaluations for hundreds of courses can be created within minutes. The result is improved data quality, higher response rates, and consistent comparisons across all thirteen faculties.

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University of Finance and Management

With evasys, the distribution, collection, and analysis of course evaluations are now largely automated. Recurring processes can be prepared in advance and reused, resulting in a modern, efficient evaluation system that saves both time and administrative resources.

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German University of Police

Since implementing evasys, the German University of Police has centrally managed module, instructor, and professional development evaluations across online and paper-based formats. The institution now evaluates more than 3,500 questionnaires each year and can create anonymized instructor comparisons and analyses across different cohorts with significantly improved data quality.

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"We needed a solution that was easy to understand for everyone, had a really good interface, and had lots of options for the different ways in which we work. And because we are a multi-site university with creative courses, we required something that was tailored to our needs and the way that our courses are structured. The evasys solution offered all of this."

  • Aimee Clark,
  • Head of Quality and Standards at UCA
  • University for the Creative Arts

"The team at evasys are committed to helping you get the most out of their systems. They make you feel valued and offer helpful suggestions. Without a doubt, the people make the difference and in any business that is the key to winning and keeping customers for the long term."

  • Lisa Williams,
  • Head of Commercial Operations, Qualifications and Training
  • British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS)

"Senior management was impressed. With the results achieved, London Met took the decision to abandon all other survey tools and focus on building an ecosystem centred on evasys as the system where all data was held, and subsequently ensured that a standard approach was put in place as to how students were surveyed."

  • Conor Murray-Gauld,
  • Student Engagement Manager
  • London Metropolitan University

"One benefit of working with evasys is that they know the higher education sector really well. They understand the importance of closing the feedback loop, showing students that their feedback is acted on. That doesn’t come naturally to some suppliers in higher education. The way the evasys team offers support throughout demonstrates their understanding of the critical relationship between students and their higher education institution and speaks to the values of evasys as a company."

  • Huw Morgan Jones,
  • Senior Manager: Surveys and Student Voice
  • University of London

"evasys simplifies the work of quality management teams by making it easier to capture patient needs and feedback. It reduces the time spent on data collection, leaving more time for analyzing results and turning them into meaningful improvement measures."

  • Oliver Steidle,
  • Head of Staff Unit
  • University Hospital Essen

"Even though the project was progressed in tight timescales, it went through very smoothly. We were given good advice about what we could realistically deliver in the time available and the system just worked."

  • Prof. Steve King,
  • Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor
  • University of York

"We’ve now got a baseline to work from and a wealth of data to feed into our wider student engagement strategies."

  • Andy White,
  • Learning Technology Manager
  • University of Cumbria

"The German Association of Actuaries implemented evasys to improve both the efficiency and quality of its survey processes. With evasys, every stage of the workflow is automated, from survey creation to analysis. Since its implementation, the platform has been used to collect feedback in advance and evaluate seminars and professional development events."

  • German Association of Actuaries

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