Viewing Results for EReserve Spring 2000 Student Survey

1. Have you used E-Reserve this semester?

$94.94%\%$ Yes (75/79 responses)

$5.06%\%$ No (4/79 responses)

96.34% of the people who took this survey
(79 / 82) answered this question.

1a. If "yes" how did you find out about E-Reserve?

$94.74%\%$ Instructor (72/76 responses)

$1.32%\%$ Fellow Student (1/76 responses)

$1.32%\%$ Library Staff (1/76 responses)

$1.32%\%$ Publicity (1/76 responses)

$1.32%\%$ Other (1/76 responses)

90.24% of the people who took this survey
(74 / 82) answered this question.

1b. If "no", please indicate why you have not used E-reserve.
Skip to question 15.

$40%\%$ Other (2/5 responses)

$0%\%$ I do not have access to a computer (0/5 responses)

$0%\%$ My instructor only used traditional library reserve materials (0/5 responses)

$20%\%$ My instructor maintains a class web page (1/5 responses)

$40%\%$ My instructor has no materials on E-Reserve (2/5 responses)

4.88% of the people who took this survey
(4 / 82) answered this question.

2. How many of your classes this semester have E-Reserve materials?

$2.63%\%$ 3 (2/76 responses)

$19.74%\%$ 2 (15/76 responses)

$71.05%\%$ 1 (54/76 responses)

$6.58%\%$ 4 or more (5/76 responses)

92.68% of the people who took this survey
(76 / 82) answered this question.

3. How many of your classes this semester have web pages or other electronic materials to support instruction?

$15.58%\%$ 3 (12/77 responses)

$20.78%\%$ 2 (16/77 responses)

$10.39%\%$ 1 (8/77 responses)

$53.25%\%$ 4 or more (41/77 responses)

93.9% of the people who took this survey
(77 / 82) answered this question.

4. Approximately how many times have you used E-Reserve this semester?

$55.84%\%$ 7 or more (43/77 responses)

$28.57%\%$ 4-6 (22/77 responses)

$15.58%\%$ 1-3 (12/77 responses)

93.9% of the people who took this survey
(77 / 82) answered this question.

5. Where do you access E-Reserve most frequently?

$2.6%\%$ Other (2/77 responses)

$9.09%\%$ In a computer lab (7/77 responses)

$1.3%\%$ In the library (1/77 responses)

$87.01%\%$ From home (67/77 responses)

93.9% of the people who took this survey
(77 / 82) answered this question.

6. E-reserve is ...

$2.6%\%$ Slightly user-friendly (2/77 responses)

$40.26%\%$ Somewhat user-friendly (31/77 responses)

$54.55%\%$ Very user-friendly (42/77 responses)

$2.6%\%$ Not user-friendly (2/77 responses)

93.9% of the people who took this survey
(77 / 82) answered this question.

7. If you found E-Reserve user-unfriendly, please check the reasons below.

$47.37%\%$ Too many steps required to get to course listings (9/19 responses)

$10.53%\%$ Other (2/19 responses)

$15.79%\%$ Too difficult to access off campus (3/19 responses)

$26.32%\%$ Too difficult to download or print materials (5/19 responses)

23.17% of the people who took this survey
(19 / 82) answered this question.

8. Have you ever needed help using E-Reserve?

$5.19%\%$ Yes (4/77 responses)

$94.81%\%$ No (73/77 responses)

93.9% of the people who took this survey
(77 / 82) answered this question.

9. If "yes", was the library staff helpful?

$50%\%$ Yes (2/4 responses)

$50%\%$ No (2/4 responses)

4.88% of the people who took this survey
(4 / 82) answered this question.

10. E-reserve is...

$62.34%\%$ Very Convenient (48/77 responses)

$29.87%\%$ Somewhat Convenient (23/77 responses)

$6.49%\%$ Slightly Convenient (5/77 responses)

$1.3%\%$ Inconvenient (1/77 responses)

93.9% of the people who took this survey
(77 / 82) answered this question.

11. Which do you prefer?

$6.49%\%$ Checking out materials from the Reserve Desk (5/77 responses)

$93.51%\%$ Using E-reserve (72/77 responses)

93.9% of the people who took this survey
(77 / 82) answered this question.

12. Not all class web pages are linked to E-Reserve. Would you like to have all instructors link web pages supporting their classes to E-Reserve?

$24%\%$ No (18/75 responses)

$76%\%$ Yes (57/75 responses)

91.46% of the people who took this survey
(75 / 82) answered this question.

13. Please include any additional comments you may have on E-reserve.

Text Responses (13 for this question)

"E-Reserve seems like a teacher's "lazy way out." Whenever they don't want to print something to hand out..."It's on E-Reserve." Maybe I'm a traditionalist, but I like my teachers to be more involved with their students learning...It seems to remove myself from my professors even more....it makes me feel like I'm even MORE of a number! (Question 17 - Neither. I have DSL service from an outside source)"

"From home many of the articles took 30-40 minutes to download on a 28.8 connection. This is way too long. Find a way to make the documents smaller so they are more modem friendly."

"I can never get my assignments from e-reserve at home. This is extremely inconvenient for me, and I'm beginning to wish I didn't have to use e-reserve. I have to connect by proxy which makes me have to wait a long, long time just to not even get the assignment! This has happened to me a lot of times."

"I definitely think all instructors should be required to use E-reserve if they do not already access their own web page. E-reserve is very helpful to students in many aspects of learning. I have found it very helpful using this service in Introductory to Sociology with Mr. Hughes. I wish all my teachers were as advanced in technology as he is."

"I juat Want the ability to access all materials off a school server. Such as if I am at home and I want to look at a reading, I should be able to login and download it."

"If powerpoint presentations are on the e-reserve, then in order to print them, shareware such as fine print needs to be readily available to students, so mass wasting of paper doesnt happen"

"if the instructor has given us the webpage link, E-reserve is great, but if they haven't, it is a pain to go through all the steps to find the page, and sometimes difficult."

"Link the e-reserve to the class homepage!"

"Professors should be required to have material on e-reserve"

"Too many links necessary to get to e-reserve page. Otherwise fine."

"very useful i wish all teachers used it."

"Websites for each class is better... allows for more personalized and detailed infoto be posted,and quickerto access"

"While e-reserve may be easy for me to use, many others lives are made easier, I'm sure, by being able to check out materials from the reserve desk. So, I wouldn't want those individuals to be left behind in a trail of internet dust!!"

14. Which of your courses have E-reserve materials?
Please indicate any information you have (department, course number, instructor) about the courses you are taking which use EReserve materials.

Text Responses (82 for this question)

"BCHM 4124, Index: 0610"

"BIOL 1106, Index: 0705" - ( 3 responses)

"BIOL 3444, Index: 0793 Stuff was not put up early enough. The material took too long to download."

"CHE 2164, Index: 0888"

"CHE 3015, Index: 0889"

"CHE 3114, Index: 0891"

"CHE 3144, Index: 0894" - ( 2 responses)

"CHE 4104, Index: 0898 CHE 3144, Marand, Eva"

"COMM 1014, Index: 1267 Geog 1014, Index: 2543"

"COMM 1014, Index: 1267 HD 4984, Index?"

"COMM 1014, Index: 1267" - ( 6 responses)

"ECON 3004, Index: 5205"

"ECPE 2704, Index: 1782" - ( 2 responses)

"ECPE 5106, Index: 1871"

"EDPE 3034, Index: 5113"

"ENGL 1106, Index: 2071" - ( 5 responses)

"ENGL 1106, Kotz SOC 1004, Hughes"

"ENGL 2604, Index: 2202"

"FIW 2324, Index: 2402"

"FIW 4714, Index: 2414" - ( 2 responses)

"FOR 2554, Index: 2473" - ( 3 responses)

"GEOL 1024, Index: 6557 GEOL 1114, Index: ? Historical Geology, Dr. Read"

"GEOL 1124, Index: 2625"

"GEOL 4014, Index: 2652"

"ISE 4304 Global Issues ME 4524 Robotics & Automation ME 4054 Materials Selection"

"ISE 4304, Index: 3097" - ( 4 responses)

"LDRS 1016, Index: 5171"

"ME 4524, Index: 3735" - ( 2 responses)

"PHIL 1304, Index: 4043"

"REL 1024, Index: 4518" - ( 3 responses)

"REL 1034, Index: 4519 HUM 2734, Russian Cult & Civ, Dr. Baehr"

"REL 1034, Index: 4519" - ( 2 responses)

"SOC 1004, Index: 4552 ENGL 3064, Index: 2225 KOTZ"

"SOC 1004, Index: 4552 REL 1034, Index 4519"

"SOC 1004, Index: 4552" - ( 19 responses)

"STAT 4604, Index: 4662"

"UAP 4754, Index: 4781 Fiw 4434"

"UAP 4754, Index: 4781 Stat 3604"

"UAP 4754, Index: 4781" - ( 3 responses)

15. I am a...

$31.25%\%$ Freshman (25/80 responses)

$23.75%\%$ Sophomore (19/80 responses)

$10%\%$ Junior (8/80 responses)

$30%\%$ Senior (24/80 responses)

$3.75%\%$ Graduate Student (3/80 responses)

$1.25%\%$ Continuing Education Student (1/80 responses)

$0%\%$ Other (0/80 responses)

97.56% of the people who took this survey
(80 / 82) answered this question.

16. I live...

$7.59%\%$ Off campus- Private home (6/79 responses)

$34.18%\%$ Off campus-apartment (27/79 responses)

$56.96%\%$ On campus (45/79 responses)

$1.27%\%$ Other (1/79 responses)

96.34% of the people who took this survey
(79 / 82) answered this question.

17. I access campus electronic resources most frequently via...

$71.79%\%$ Ethernet (56/78 responses)

$28.21%\%$ Inbound modem pool (22/78 responses)

95.12% of the people who took this survey
(78 / 82) answered this question.

18.My computer is...

$27.5%\%$ IBM (22/80 responses)

$62.5%\%$ PC compatible (50/80 responses)

$2.5%\%$ Apple/Macintosh (2/80 responses)

$7.5%\%$ Other (6/80 responses)

97.56% of the people who took this survey
(80 / 82) answered this question.

19. How experienced are you with computers?

$30.38%\%$ Very experienced (24/79 responses)

$60.76%\%$ Somewhat experienced (48/79 responses)

$8.86%\%$ Slightly experienced (7/79 responses)

$0%\%$ Not experienced (0/79 responses)

96.34% of the people who took this survey
(79 / 82) answered this question.

20. Prior to using E-reserve, had you ever accessed PDF files?

$78.48%\%$ Yes (62/79 responses)

$21.52%\%$ No (17/79 responses)

96.34% of the people who took this survey
(79 / 82) answered this question.

21. Prior to using E-Reserve, did you use the Internet extensively?

$93.75%\%$ Yes (75/80 responses)

$6.25%\%$ No (5/80 responses)

97.56% of the people who took this survey
(80 / 82) answered this question.

Text Responses (13 for this question)
"E-Reserve seems like a teacher's "lazy way out." Whenever they don't want to print something to hand out..."It's on E-Reserve." Maybe I'm a traditionalist, but I like my teachers to be more involved with their students learning...It seems to remove myself from my professors even more....it makes me feel like I'm even MORE of a number! (Question 17 - Neither. I have DSL service from an outside source)"
"From home many of the articles took 30-40 minutes to download on a 28.8 connection. This is way too long. Find a way to make the documents smaller so they are more modem friendly."
"I can never get my assignments from e-reserve at home. This is extremely inconvenient for me, and I'm beginning to wish I didn't have to use e-reserve. I have to connect by proxy which makes me have to wait a long, long time just to not even get the assignment! This has happened to me a lot of times."
"I definitely think all instructors should be required to use E-reserve if they do not already access their own web page. E-reserve is very helpful to students in many aspects of learning. I have found it very helpful using this service in Introductory to Sociology with Mr. Hughes. I wish all my teachers were as advanced in technology as he is."
"I juat Want the ability to access all materials off a school server. Such as if I am at home and I want to look at a reading, I should be able to login and download it."
"If powerpoint presentations are on the e-reserve, then in order to print them, shareware such as fine print needs to be readily available to students, so mass wasting of paper doesnt happen"
"if the instructor has given us the webpage link, E-reserve is great, but if they haven't, it is a pain to go through all the steps to find the page, and sometimes difficult."
"Link the e-reserve to the class homepage!"
"Professors should be required to have material on e-reserve"
"Too many links necessary to get to e-reserve page. Otherwise fine."
"very useful i wish all teachers used it."
"Websites for each class is better... allows for more personalized and detailed infoto be posted,and quickerto access"
"While e-reserve may be easy for me to use, many others lives are made easier, I'm sure, by being able to check out materials from the reserve desk. So, I wouldn't want those individuals to be left behind in a trail of internet dust!!"

Text Responses (82 for this question)
"BCHM 4124, Index: 0610"
"BIOL 1106, Index: 0705" - ( 3 responses)
"BIOL 3444, Index: 0793 Stuff was not put up early enough. The material took too long to download."
"CHE 2164, Index: 0888"
"CHE 3015, Index: 0889"
"CHE 3114, Index: 0891"
"CHE 3144, Index: 0894" - ( 2 responses)
"CHE 4104, Index: 0898 CHE 3144, Marand, Eva"
"COMM 1014, Index: 1267 Geog 1014, Index: 2543"
"COMM 1014, Index: 1267 HD 4984, Index?"
"COMM 1014, Index: 1267" - ( 6 responses)
"ECON 3004, Index: 5205"
"ECPE 2704, Index: 1782" - ( 2 responses)
"ECPE 5106, Index: 1871"
"EDPE 3034, Index: 5113"
"ENGL 1106, Index: 2071" - ( 5 responses)
"ENGL 1106, Kotz SOC 1004, Hughes"
"ENGL 2604, Index: 2202"
"FIW 2324, Index: 2402"
"FIW 4714, Index: 2414" - ( 2 responses)
"FOR 2554, Index: 2473" - ( 3 responses)
"GEOL 1024, Index: 6557 GEOL 1114, Index: ? Historical Geology, Dr. Read"
"GEOL 1124, Index: 2625"
"GEOL 4014, Index: 2652"
"ISE 4304 Global Issues ME 4524 Robotics & Automation ME 4054 Materials Selection"
"ISE 4304, Index: 3097" - ( 4 responses)
"LDRS 1016, Index: 5171"
"ME 4524, Index: 3735" - ( 2 responses)
"PHIL 1304, Index: 4043"
"REL 1024, Index: 4518" - ( 3 responses)
"REL 1034, Index: 4519 HUM 2734, Russian Cult & Civ, Dr. Baehr"
"REL 1034, Index: 4519" - ( 2 responses)
"SOC 1004, Index: 4552 ENGL 3064, Index: 2225 KOTZ"
"SOC 1004, Index: 4552 REL 1034, Index 4519"
"SOC 1004, Index: 4552" - ( 19 responses)
"STAT 4604, Index: 4662"
"UAP 4754, Index: 4781 Fiw 4434"
"UAP 4754, Index: 4781 Stat 3604"
"UAP 4754, Index: 4781" - ( 3 responses)

http://lumiere.lib.vt.edu/surveys/results/view_results.php3
Generated at 05:03 pm on Monday, October 26th, 2015

	$94.94%\%$	Yes	(75/79 responses)
	$5.06%\%$	No	(4/79 responses)
96.34% of the people who took this survey (79 / 82) answered this question.

	$94.74%\%$	Instructor	(72/76 responses)
	$1.32%\%$	Fellow Student	(1/76 responses)
	$1.32%\%$	Library Staff	(1/76 responses)
	$1.32%\%$	Publicity	(1/76 responses)
	$1.32%\%$	Other	(1/76 responses)
90.24% of the people who took this survey (74 / 82) answered this question.

	$40%\%$	Other	(2/5 responses)
	$0%\%$	I do not have access to a computer	(0/5 responses)
	$0%\%$	My instructor only used traditional library reserve materials	(0/5 responses)
	$20%\%$	My instructor maintains a class web page	(1/5 responses)
	$40%\%$	My instructor has no materials on E-Reserve	(2/5 responses)
4.88% of the people who took this survey (4 / 82) answered this question.

	$2.63%\%$	3	(2/76 responses)
	$19.74%\%$	2	(15/76 responses)
	$71.05%\%$	1	(54/76 responses)
	$6.58%\%$	4 or more	(5/76 responses)
92.68% of the people who took this survey (76 / 82) answered this question.

	$15.58%\%$	3	(12/77 responses)
	$20.78%\%$	2	(16/77 responses)
	$10.39%\%$	1	(8/77 responses)
	$53.25%\%$	4 or more	(41/77 responses)
93.9% of the people who took this survey (77 / 82) answered this question.

	$55.84%\%$	7 or more	(43/77 responses)
	$28.57%\%$	4-6	(22/77 responses)
	$15.58%\%$	1-3	(12/77 responses)
93.9% of the people who took this survey (77 / 82) answered this question.

	$2.6%\%$	Other	(2/77 responses)
	$9.09%\%$	In a computer lab	(7/77 responses)
	$1.3%\%$	In the library	(1/77 responses)
	$87.01%\%$	From home	(67/77 responses)
93.9% of the people who took this survey (77 / 82) answered this question.

	$2.6%\%$	Slightly user-friendly	(2/77 responses)
	$40.26%\%$	Somewhat user-friendly	(31/77 responses)
	$54.55%\%$	Very user-friendly	(42/77 responses)
	$2.6%\%$	Not user-friendly	(2/77 responses)
93.9% of the people who took this survey (77 / 82) answered this question.

	$47.37%\%$	Too many steps required to get to course listings	(9/19 responses)
	$10.53%\%$	Other	(2/19 responses)
	$15.79%\%$	Too difficult to access off campus	(3/19 responses)
	$26.32%\%$	Too difficult to download or print materials	(5/19 responses)
23.17% of the people who took this survey (19 / 82) answered this question.

	$5.19%\%$	Yes	(4/77 responses)
	$94.81%\%$	No	(73/77 responses)
93.9% of the people who took this survey (77 / 82) answered this question.

	$50%\%$	Yes	(2/4 responses)
	$50%\%$	No	(2/4 responses)
4.88% of the people who took this survey (4 / 82) answered this question.

	$62.34%\%$	Very Convenient	(48/77 responses)
	$29.87%\%$	Somewhat Convenient	(23/77 responses)
	$6.49%\%$	Slightly Convenient	(5/77 responses)
	$1.3%\%$	Inconvenient	(1/77 responses)
93.9% of the people who took this survey (77 / 82) answered this question.

	$6.49%\%$	Checking out materials from the Reserve Desk	(5/77 responses)
	$93.51%\%$	Using E-reserve	(72/77 responses)
93.9% of the people who took this survey (77 / 82) answered this question.

	$24%\%$	No	(18/75 responses)
	$76%\%$	Yes	(57/75 responses)
91.46% of the people who took this survey (75 / 82) answered this question.

	$31.25%\%$	Freshman	(25/80 responses)
	$23.75%\%$	Sophomore	(19/80 responses)
	$10%\%$	Junior	(8/80 responses)
	$30%\%$	Senior	(24/80 responses)
	$3.75%\%$	Graduate Student	(3/80 responses)
	$1.25%\%$	Continuing Education Student	(1/80 responses)
	$0%\%$	Other	(0/80 responses)
97.56% of the people who took this survey (80 / 82) answered this question.

	$7.59%\%$	Off campus- Private home	(6/79 responses)
	$34.18%\%$	Off campus-apartment	(27/79 responses)
	$56.96%\%$	On campus	(45/79 responses)
	$1.27%\%$	Other	(1/79 responses)
96.34% of the people who took this survey (79 / 82) answered this question.

	$71.79%\%$	Ethernet	(56/78 responses)
	$28.21%\%$	Inbound modem pool	(22/78 responses)
95.12% of the people who took this survey (78 / 82) answered this question.

	$27.5%\%$	IBM	(22/80 responses)
	$62.5%\%$	PC compatible	(50/80 responses)
	$2.5%\%$	Apple/Macintosh	(2/80 responses)
	$7.5%\%$	Other	(6/80 responses)
97.56% of the people who took this survey (80 / 82) answered this question.

	$30.38%\%$	Very experienced	(24/79 responses)
	$60.76%\%$	Somewhat experienced	(48/79 responses)
	$8.86%\%$	Slightly experienced	(7/79 responses)
	$0%\%$	Not experienced	(0/79 responses)
96.34% of the people who took this survey (79 / 82) answered this question.

	$78.48%\%$	Yes	(62/79 responses)
	$21.52%\%$	No	(17/79 responses)
96.34% of the people who took this survey (79 / 82) answered this question.

	$93.75%\%$	Yes	(75/80 responses)
	$6.25%\%$	No	(5/80 responses)
97.56% of the people who took this survey (80 / 82) answered this question.