evaluation process, the Office of Online Education will implement a supplemental evaluation process for online faculty.

2.4.1 Evaluation Process

Once per academic year, each online faculty member will engage in an assessment of online instructional practices. This evaluation aims to facilitate continued growth as an online faculty member in the instructional practices emphasized by KYSU Online.

The process involves several steps.

1. Notification: The Faculty Mentor initiates the evaluation process by notifying the online faculty of the details, timeline, and instruments used.
2. Self-evaluation: The online faculty member completes a self-evaluation survey and sends it to the Faculty Mentor along with end-of-course surveys and other selected artifacts from the relevant timeframe. Faculty may be asked to reflect on course-related data from dashboards.
3. Review and evaluation: The Faculty Mentor reviews these materials and instructional items such as course announcements, discussion boards, and assignment feedback. The Faculty Mentor also reviews the compliance reports from the relevant timeframe.
4. The Faculty Mentor completes the assessment rubric, which includes numeric ratings and substantive feedback.
5. The Faculty Mentor sends the assessment rubric to the online faculty member, and they communicate about the results.
6. Once the online faculty member has approved the assessment results, they are forwarded to the Director of Online Education for review. No further action is required unless initiated by the Director of Online Education.
7. The online faculty member retains a copy of the assessment to include in their regular performance evaluation process and faculty promotion portfolio (when relevant).

2.4.2 Evidence for the Effectiveness of Online Faculty

2.4.2.1 End-of-Course Surveys

Each course solicits feedback from students about the class and the faculty. Once final grades have been posted, the survey results are available for the faculty member to review. The Office of Online Education and administrators, such as the Faculty Mentor, use the surveys when evaluating faculty performance of online duties.

2.4.2.2 Compliance Reports

Online faculty must adhere to online teaching standards to provide regular and substantive interaction with students while maintaining an active online presence in courses. Compliance reports track the completion of specific regular duties by the appropriate deadlines. Relevant items covered in compliance reports include weekly announcements, faculty activity in the LMS, upholding the student “attendance” policy, posting final grades on time, etc.

2.4.2.3 Academic Engagement

Evidence of an instructor's academic engagement with students can take many forms. This might include engagement in discussion boards, assignment feedback, and other instructional presence in the course. Information about the standards of instruction is found in Section 4 below. Commented [JM54]: Do we want to do a self-evaluation? Commented [JM55R54]: Consider removing the self-evaluation phase. Commented [JM56R54]: If the self-evaluation phase includes a review of success rates, etc, then it is helpful/meaningful.

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