How do I access course evaluation reports in Blue?

You will receive an email at your school email address from Tufts Course Evaluations ([email protected]) inviting you to view the evaluation report. You can click the link in the email to access your reports. If you do not receive the email, please check your spam folder. This email link will take you to that report ONLY. To view all reports across the terms that you have access to, you can also access Blue via the 'Course Evaluations' link in the left side navigation of any Canvas course. Alternatively, you can access your reports via your Blue home page at https://tufts.bluera.com/tufts. For AS&E, there will also be a Canvas announcement with a link to Blue.

In order to access a course evaluation report:

  1. The course must be designated by the Department as an evaluated course. Courses not designated for evaluation may include: labs, recitations, low enrollment, independent study, thesis, or others.
  2. The instructors must each be listed as an official "Instructor of Record" for the course, or you must be a staff member who has been granted access. Guest Instructors and TAs are not evaluated and do not have access to the course evaluation.

There is no automated process to update report access based on title. Each school and department designates the users that will have access to the reports on a subject by subject basis. If you need access to reports for your subject, please reach out to [email protected] with your request.

Some schools require a response threshold (not enrollment threshold) to be met in order for reports to be published. If fewer than 3 students respond to a course evaluation in the BioMedical Sciences school, or fewer than 4 students in AS&E, the report will not be generated for that course. This will be indicated by a 'Respondent Threshold not met' status. Instructors are invited and encouraged to monitor their response rates during the course evaluation period.

Some schools also allow their students to view the course evaluation reports. For those schools, the links to the reports are posted in a secure location.

In addition to PDF reports, staff members may also access a CSV file containing all of the ratings for the courses/instructors in that term. These spreadsheets are organized by school and by subject.

if you cannot find the reports for the term that you are searching for, it may be that you are looking for a term that was evaluated in Trunk prior to the implementation of Blue. If this is the case, please go to Box to access reports for these previous terms.

You will receive an email inviting you to view the reports. Note that the link in the email will bring you to the reports for that term only. If you do not receive an email, or if you wish to search reports across various terms, you can access Blue directly at https://tufts.bluera.com/tufts/

Click the link in the email to log into Blue with your Tufts University username and password. During login, users at health sciences schools may be required to select a data source. Be sure to select the correct one (references in your email invitation).

Once logged in, you can view the report list. Reports can be searched by keywords including course title or instructor name or term. If the reports are not displaying as you expect, be sure to enable 'show child reports' in the report section of your home page in order to allow for search across terms.

Click on the desired report title to view.

Spreadsheet reports will open with a download option

PDF reports will open for viewing with download options

Summary and Detail Data

In the "Summary of Results" section of the Blue course evaluation report, mean and standard deviation data is provided for that particular course, as well as for all courses for the term in the subject or school, for comparison. For some schools, the comparison is provided for courses within a certain subject, in a single term, session, or mode (such as online vs on-campus). For other schools, the comparison is provided across all subjects in the entire school for that term.

In the "Detailed Results of Course Evaluation", only see results for that course are displayed, complete with graphs and statistics.

Response thresholds

Some Tufts' schools require a student response threshold. For those schools, if the minimum number of responses has not been met, the report will not be generated and the threshold status will indicate 'not met'. This protects student confidentiality.

In BioMedical Sciences, if fewer than 3 students complete a course evaluation, or in AS&E if fewer than 4 students complete to a course evaluation, the report will not be published for that course.