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A website to write student evaluations automagically
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jay-shi



Joined: 09 May 2004
Location: On tour

PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 8:46 am    Post subject: A website to write student evaluations automagically Reply with quote

Frustrated by having to work long extra hours writing up student evaluations I decided to automate things a little. I made a website that speeds up the evaluation writing process. I thought I'd share it with other ESL teachers.

The address is http://www.esltool.com

It's free to use. I hope you will find it useful.
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mithridates



Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency

PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is fun. Too bad I'm not a teacher.

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I don't know why Janjan is even trying to learn English. He has a great personality and attitude. However, he leaves his seat too often. His limited vocabulary makes it hard for him to improve in certain areas of English. He is difficult to understand. His poor reading ability is making it hard to learn new material. He doesn't like writing and finds excuses not to do it. He is starting to fall behind the other students. He should quit studying English!
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jajdude



Joined: 18 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If we were allowed to be totally honest most might read something like mith's.

"Let's face it, your son is really lame and a pain to actually teach. So I give him word search puzzles and let him speak Korean to his buddies. Otherwise he might hate me and complain to you and want to quit. That would be bad for my boss, and he might give me a hard time for that. But now he enjoys the class because I let him do whatever he pleases, and he gets to chat and play with his friends. If you really think he is learning much English here, you are kidding yourself."
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Derrek



Joined: 15 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 5:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It still puts up He/She when I choose male. But fun.
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jay-shi



Joined: 09 May 2004
Location: On tour

PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 6:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Derrek wrote:
It still puts up He/She when I choose male. But fun.


Yes, on the evaluation creation pages it adds all the comments, as they appear in the drop down menu, in the text box at the bottom. Once you click "edit evaluation" the text gets processed according to name and gender.
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Bunnymonster



Joined: 16 Mar 2004
Location: Tokyo

PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Perfect timing for this post we have been informed that we must wirte reports as of today, guess what we will all be using.......................
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Son Deureo!



Joined: 30 Apr 2003

PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jay-shi, you rule.
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eddiebaby



Joined: 13 May 2005

PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice Very Happy
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gang ah jee



Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper

PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whoa! Whoa! This is excellent!

I'm working for an IH school and we use a very similar system to this but using MS Excel. What you've set up far surpasses it. I'll be using it for the quarterly evaluations I'm writing tomorrow and putting up your URL in the teachers' room.
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NearlyKorean



Joined: 15 Mar 2003
Location: Phoenix, AZ

PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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"Let's face it, your son is really lame and a pain to actually teach. So I give him word search puzzles and let him speak Korean to his buddies. Otherwise he might hate me and complain to you and want to quit. That would be bad for my boss, and he might give me a hard time for that. But now he enjoys the class because I let him do whatever he pleases, and he gets to chat and play with his friends. If you really think he is learning much English here, you are kidding yourself."


I talked to my son, he is doing badly on purpose, because your classes are so very boring, and you give him to much homework, and you speak too fast and EVERYONE in the class doesn't understand you. Nobody in the class likes you. I would complain about to the director, but she is my aunt. When are you going back to your country?
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Bulsajo



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's really cool- can I ask what you used to create it?
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jay-shi



Joined: 09 May 2004
Location: On tour

PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for all the positive responses! It's very encouraging.

I would also like to encourage you to send me more of your own evaluation comments so that I can add them to the lists.

Bulsajo: I created it using EditPlus, my favorite text editor, coding it by hand. I runs using php and javascript.

Enjoy
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mithridates



Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency

PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is it easy to make a search engine through php? Off-topic I know, but I've been wondering about that lately.
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Metsuke



Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 12:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great resource... thanks for taking the time to make it!
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Natasha Compagnon



Joined: 08 Nov 2004

PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is very cool so far. I tend to handwrite mine, but there are some good lines to use in here!

I haven't had much practice with evaluations yet, and it looks like you've got all the sorts of comments I was using.

Thanks for creating this!
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