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January 12, 2007 > Opinion > Web grade entry deserves A-plus, course evals fail

Web grade entry deserves A-plus, course evals fail

By The Rice Thresher Editorial Staff | Thresher Editorial Staff

We are glad to see IT and the Registrar’s Office collaborated so successfully in implementing online grade entry last semester after just one pilot run. (See story, page 5.) The punctual return rate was very satisfactory and we were surprised — and only occasionally suicidal — that most of us found all our grades on ESTHER before the New Year.

Hopefully, the new system was as much a relief to professors as it was to students. We expect it allowed everyone a little more free time during the break, and the overdue improvement seems to be more convenient for everyone.

Unfortunately, not all of last semester’s Web-centric academic bureaucracy produced such fine results. Course evaluations suffered grossly low returns for the second semester in a row. (See story, page 1.) We hope the Registrar’s Office will take this as a clear incentive to change evaluation policies next semester, and we hope next time the administration leaves inter-college competition to Beer Bike.

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