The Instructor & Course Evaluation System (ICES) is used across campus as the official end-of-semester student ratings system for faculty and teaching assistants. ICES ratings are often utilized for course improvement, promotion & tenure review, teaching award decisions, and student registration assistance (via our Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students list). ICES ratings are only one indicator of teaching effectiveness and should be used in conjunction with other measures of teaching quality such as student learning outcomes, peer observations, document analysis, and self-review. NOTE: We currently have both paper-and-pencil and online versions of ICES. ICES Online is used for all courses in some departments and for all online courses.