IDEA Deadlines and News
IDEA Deadlines
Fall, Spring and Summer Semesters
The deadline for FIF (Faculty Information Forms) submittal, i.e. request for an IDEA Packet, is two weeks before the end of each semester.
The deadline for the completed Packets (FIF + student IDEA forms) to be returned for processing is one week after finals.
Please return all completed student surveys to the Loboscore office located in IT Main, office #1006. If no employees are available in office #1006, the front desk (Support Center) will hold completed survey packets until a Loboscore employee returns or becomes available.
Surveys turned in after the deadline may not be processed until the following semester. IDEA surveys are sent as a batch to KSU for processing.
IDEA Reports Status
IDEA forms are currently being accepted and processed. All IDEA data will be sent to KSU at the beginning of June for analysis and report generation. University departments should start receiving their Spring 2011 IDEA reports by the end of June.
Estimate IDEA report arrival is about three weeks after the last packet is sent in. Packets that are exceedingly late will not be processed until the following semester. For a more detailed description of the IDEA report processing, see below.
Average IDEA Report processing times are as follows: One week to process here at IT, ten days to process at the IDEA center at KSU, and three to five business days for shipping. Please note that these are just average time estimates and that sometimes there are delays in the processing.
Every department can prevent many of those delays by meeting the one week deadline to return all IDEA packets at the end of each semester and by doing so, this will ensure that reports will arrive much sooner.
About IDEA at UNM
The business owner of IDEA at UNM is Academic Affairs.
Paper IDEA evaluations/surveys are processed by Learning Operations in IT. Please download this pdf for an overview of our process.
Online IDEA evaluations/surveys are administered by NMEL for online classes only.