{"id":2993,"date":"2012-10-20T08:16:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T15:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/news-p\/wordpress\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2012-10-23T12:35:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T19:35:12","slug":"instructor-friendly-improvements-enhance-online-student-feedback-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/instructor-friendly-improvements-enhance-online-student-feedback-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructor-friendly improvements enhance online student feedback system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New features and recent enhancements to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.nau.edu\/ua\/GPS\/Faculty\/\">Grade Performance Status<\/a>\u00a0system have made the university\u2019s online academic feedback tool easier and more efficient for instructors to use.<\/p>\n<p>Improvements include a cleaner GPS roster with more space for student comment boxes and the ability to sort and filter groups of students and order them by academic level, name or grade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis targeting of specific sets of students allows for more efficient messaging, which can be especially useful in larger classes,\u201d said\u00a0<strong>Zane Shewalter<\/strong>, senior business analyst for University College at NAU.<\/p>\n<p>The system\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.nau.edu\/ua\/GPS\/Faculty\/documents\/GPS_90_New_Features.pdf\">new message-builder<\/a>\u00a0allows instructors to quickly select the students\u2014or their entire class\u2014they wish to message. Instructors can use the feature to enter a comment once and send it to the selected students in one click.<\/p>\n<p>The message feature can be used to send various types of constructive feedback to students, such as attendance or grade concerns or to provide positive comments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our research shows that all students benefit from instructor feedback, and instructor use of the GPS system correlates to an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.nau.edu\/ua\/GPS\/Faculty\/documents\/GPS%20Retention%20Analysis%20-%20F10%20Cohort.pdf#zoom=100\">increase in retention<\/a>,&#8221; Shewalter said. &#8220;This application makes it easy to reach out to students to let them know how they&#8217;re doing, address concerns or offer encouragement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With midterm grades due this week, instructors can use GPS to send midterm grades to students and then, with the click of a button, import those grades directly into the official grade roster. As an incentive, instructors who use GPS this term are automatically entered into a drawing to win an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.nau.edu\/ua\/GPS\/Faculty\/Documents\/9.0\/GPS%20Giveaway.pdf#zoom=100\">iPad or an iPod Touch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Information on the GPS system is available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.nau.edu\/ua\/GPS\/Faculty\/\">online<\/a>, by calling Shewalter at (928) 523-8205 or email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:gps@nau.edu\">gps@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/instructor-friendly-improvements-enhance-online-student-feedback-system\/\">New features and recent enhancements to the\u00a0Grade Performance Status\u00a0system have made the university\u2019s online academic feedback tool easier and more efficient for instructors to use. Improvements include a cleaner GPS roster with more space for student comment boxes and the ability to sort and filter groups of students and order them by academic level, name&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-academics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}