Assessment Calendar

Assessment Calendar - Spring ‘25

 

This calendar serves to inform the Howard community of dates relevant to assessment, course evaluations, and institution-wide surveys. Reminders for each of these events will be sent via email to appropriate parties, but the calendar serves as a single source of information for this data. 

 

Sunday, December 1, 2024

Course evaluations are closed.

Monday, December 2, 2024

Final examinations begin.

Saturday, December 18, 2024

Fall semester ends.

Friday, December 20, 2024

Course evaluation reports are available to instructors.*

Monday, January 13, 2025

Spring semester begins.

Monday, January 20, 2025

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (University Closed)

Friday, February 7, 2025

Mental Health Day (University Closed)

Monday, February 10, 2025

Course Audit Date: ALL Instructors and courses must be correctly entered into CourseDog by this date. Failure to do so will results in errors being imported into the Course Evaluation system. 

Monday, February 17, 2025

President’s Day (University Closed)

Week of February 17

WORKSHOP: TBD

Week of February 24

Howard Interdisciplinary Evaluation and Assessment (IDEAS) meeting.

Week of March 1-March 9, 2025

Spring Recess (University Closed)

Week of March 17

WORKSHOP: TBD

Monday, March 24, 2025

Graduating Student Exit Survey (GSES) is sent to eligible graduating students.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Fall course evaluation Manage Courses period begins for traditional courses. During this period, administrators can correct instructor information within Course Evaluations and Surveys as needed. 

  • Deans and Chairs should remind course instructors of record to log on to the course evaluation platform (Watermark CE&S) and ensure all instructor information is correct.

  • Instructors should notify their Dean/Chair of any errors on CE&S and Deans/Chairs can make corrections on CE&S

Friday, March 28, 2025

OUC communication about GSES and Course Evaluations will be sent.

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Course evaluations are opened.

  • Instructors should encourage their students to complete course evaluations.

Friday, April 11, 2025

Total Withdrawal Date.

Week of April 14

Howard Interdisciplinary Evaluation and Assessment (IDEAS) meeting.

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

OUC communication regarding the closing of course evaluations will be sent.

Friday, April 18, 2025

Course evaluations are closed.

Week of April 21

Assessment Day! More details coming soon.

Monday, April 28, 2025

Final examinations begin.

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Reminder will be sent out to units about finalizing their 2024-2025 HAAP Results & Actions. We ask that all units determine what materials (grades, assignments, etc.) are needed to be uploaded to their plans & make an appointment with the Assessment Specialist if needed. 

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Spring semester ends.

Monday, May 12, 2025

Course evaluation reports are available to instructors.*

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Final materials must be uploaded to 2024-2025 HAAP Results & Actions in Planning & Self Study for programs on traditional schedule. 

Please contact the Assessment team if there is any barrier to your unit submitting the plan on time.

Friday, May 30, 2025

GSES is closed for Fall ’24 and Spring ’25 graduates.

 

We ask that units access their 2025-2026 HAAP Plans  and approve/edit their Outcomes & Measures. These plans will be revisited at the beginning of AY 2025-2026. Please make an appointment with the Assessment Specialist if needed.

Please contact the Assessment team if there is any barrier to your unit submitting the plan on time.

*Course evaluations will be made available to instructors and administrators after all final grades have been submitted. This will delay some graduate and professional programs with different grade submission policies. Non-traditional academic programs’ course evaluation timeline differs based on individual academic calendars.

 

Please note: As of the close of the Fall 2022 semester, the Office of Institutional Research & Assessment is no longer able to verify course and instructor information for the course evaluation process. Course and instructor information must be correct in Banner and Canvas prior to the Course Audit Date of each semester. Deans and chairs can assist instructors in making necessary corrections within the Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys system.