After students submit their completed questionnaires, the resulting database is analyzed by NC State’s Office of University Planning and Analysis (UPA). UPA prepares a summary report for each instructor that includes the mean rating on each close-ended question. A separate report will consist of only the verbatim responses to each open-ended question.

The identity of students completing the questionnaires will not be included in any reports, so the instructor will not know how any individual responded to any given question. Instructors will not even be able to determine who participated in the evaluation and who did not.  To protect the identity of students in small classes or in classes with low response rates, a report will not be generated for classes with fewer than five students enrolled. 

Reports will not be distributed until after grades have been posted.

The only exception to these confidentiality rules is when a student describes an unlawful activity. In those cases, UPA is obliged by law to report the matter to the Office of Legal Affairs.

All ClassEval data are protected from creation to archival storage using the same strategies used to protect other confidential student and personnel information maintained by the University:

• The web interface (for students filling out questionnaires) is reached through appropriate authentication and https protocol. 
• The working datasets and reports are based on central office servers that also contain student, personnel, and other protected data, and are protected to the same level of security through firewalls and other means. 
• The transmission from central office processing to the department heads will be by an appropriate appropriate high-level, secure web delivery.