CollegeNET Web Technology Now Improves Course Evaluations at Five Oregon Colleges and Universities

Web-based What-Do-You-Think?® Evaluation System Cuts Costs, Saves Time and Increases Student Response Rates

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CollegeNET, Inc., a provider of web-based on-demand technologies, today announced that its What-Do-You-Think? course and instructor evaluation system is now being used at five Oregon colleges and universities: Oregon State University, University of Oregon, Southern Oregon University, Mt. Hood Community College and Rogue Community College. These Oregon schools have joined several other prominent CollegeNET clients nationwide, including Stanford and the Office of the Registrar at Princeton, in replacing paper evaluation forms. CollegeNET’s new, 100 percent web-based system is helping higher education institutions increase student participation, gather valuable feedback on teaching and course content, save administrative time and costs, and reduce paper consumption. Because What-Do-You-Think? is fully hosted by CollegeNET over the web, schools avoid the costs associated with installing and maintaining software on campus.

“In the face of budget constraints and rising costs in undergraduate and graduate education, we’ve figured out another service area in which colleges can leverage the web to rid their operations of paper, errors and expense.”

“The number of evaluations we’ve seen students complete rose dramatically after implementation,” said Laura Jacek, Assistant Registrar for Course Evaluations at the University of Oregon. “More than 75,000 evaluations were submitted in Fall term 2010 as compared to only 32,000 printed in the term before we went online with CollegeNET. The increase in response means that we have more data to work with, and the data we have is more representative and more reliable.”

By increasing student participation, What-Do-You-Think? yields a more representative sample and more accurate data. The system also enables authorized administrators and/or faculty to add or delete questions to make evaluation forms more relevant to individual courses. It provides immediate access to evaluation results, which allows administrators more time to factor evaluation data into the next term’s course offering and scheduling decisions.

“We’re very pleased to announce that five of our home state campuses are benefiting from the What-Do-You-Think? system,” said Patricia Summers, vice president of marketing for CollegeNET, Inc. “In the face of budget constraints and rising costs in undergraduate and graduate education, we’ve figured out another service area in which colleges can leverage the web to rid their operations of paper, errors and expense.”

To learn more about the What-Do-You-Think? course and instructor evaluation system, please visit: http://www.corp.collegenet.com/products/wdyt_overview.html.

About CollegeNET, Inc.

CollegeNET, Inc. builds web-based, on-demand technologies that help institutions improve operational efficiency, enhance communication with constituents and save money. The company’s systems are used by more than 1,300 institutions worldwide for event and academic scheduling, prospect and admissions management, web-based tuition processing and alumni development. Additionally, CollegeNET operates a fast-growing social network through which students create topics, write about them, and vote to determine who will win scholarships. Today, this site — www.Collegenet.com — is one of the Internet’s most popular destinations for scholarship seeking students. The company is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.