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[northrop_fried]

Got this in my e-mail today.
Would you really want to encourage your students access to this anonymous complaint service? I'm not certain.

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[max_ambiguity]

What a monumentally bad idea. Channels should already exist for things where anonymity is important (inappropriate touching by a professor, for example). For the rest, students need to sack up and talk to you directly. Inviting them to whine anonymously will help no one.

[3g0]

Honestly, for professors trying to avoid the inevitable ballsack who waits all semester and then writes a seething no-one-hugged-me-enough-as-a-child missive about the professor, to the chair/dean, an anonymous complaint service might be just the thing to use to head off the headache and hours of damage control/documentation crap that have to occur.

[poldyb]

An unfortunate name.

It is a completely unnecessary service. It is usually quite easy to get anonymous feedback from students. I typically do a midterm teaching evaluation to get just that kind of feedback.

[northrop_fried]

I like that idea-- the thought crossed my mind in the past. Think I will implement it this semester.

[poldyb]

If you have blackboard or some similar online teaching support, one can make the evaluations very quickly and easily.

[pauldeman2pt0]

On Blackboard? I will have to remember to ask about how to do this. I now have access to my Blackboard, apparently----but still no e-mail address or office key. LOL.

[knut_hamson]

If it's an internet service, it must be valuable. You'd be a fool not to take advantage of this opportunity.

[northrop_fried]

They probably think we do that already.

[perpetua_redux]

We do, only they're not anonymous.