All courses/instructors that were eligible to receive ICES ratings will still be eligible to receive FLEX ratings. Just as with ICES, CITL will work with the Registrar’s Office and units to automatically initiate the process for creating a FLEX survey for each eligible course/instructor. As with ICES, instructors and units will have the opportunity to opt out of a FLEX survey, though instructors and units will then be expected to systematically collect student feedback on their own for teaching feedback and evaluation.

Initially, instructors and units will be able to elect to add only the ICES global items to FLEX. A continuing task force will develop new elective items that units can use to construct “departmental core” item sets for their units.

Units will need to develop and share their policies for how FLEX (and possibly ICES) data will be used in teaching evaluations.