# respond-to-eval

Converts student course evaluations into a structured teaching improvement plan mapped directly to syllabus sections and lecture slides.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1671
- Author: pedrohcgs
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/respond-to-eval/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-27
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/respond-to-eval

## What it does

This skill processes course evaluations from `.csv`, `.tsv`, `.txt`, `.md`, `.pdf`, or `.docx` files. It splits free-text feedback into atomic notes, clusters them into instructor-defined themes, and tallies how many individual students raised each point alongside numeric ratings.

Every theme receives a triage label: `Keep`, `Change`, `Investigate`, or `Out-of-scope`. Action items point straight to targets such as `syllabus §X` or specific lecture slide numbers. When given a prior semester's plan, it reviews whether previous promises were fulfilled before writing the final markdown report into `quality_reports/teaching/`.

Extracting text from `.pdf` and `.docx` relies on `pdftotext` and `pandoc` installed locally; without these CLI tools, the skill requires a plain-text or CSV export.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill respond-to-eval -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/respond-to-eval/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/respond-to-eval/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill respond-to-eval -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/respond-to-eval/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill respond-to-eval -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/respond-to-eval/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow respond-to-eval
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/respond-to-eval/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill respond-to-eval -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --path .claude/skills/respond-to-eval
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/respond-to-eval/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill respond-to-eval -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/respond-to-eval/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- cluster open-ended student comments into weighted themes
- map pedagogical adjustments directly to syllabus sections and slide numbers
- track whether changes promised in a previous semester took effect
- classify feedback into actionable changes, investigations, and out-of-scope items

## Example prompts
- Analyze student evaluations in `evals_fall.csv` and draft an improvement plan
- Process feedback from `course_evals.pdf` using prior plan `last_term_plan.md`
- Cluster comments from `evals.md` with `--min-mentions 3`

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: respond-to-eval
description: Turn student course evaluations (free-text + numeric) into an actionable teaching-improvement plan — the teaching analogue of /respond-to-referees. Clusters comments into themes, separates signal from noise, classifies each theme Keep / Change / Investigate / Out-of-scope, and drafts concrete changes mapped to the syllabus and slide decks. Use when user says "respond to my evals", "what do these course evaluations tell me", "turn my teaching feedback into a plan", or after a semester's evals arrive.
argument-hint: "[eval-file(s)] [prior-plan-path] [--min-mentions N] [--no-verify]"
allowed-tools: ["Read", "Write", "Grep", "Glob", "Bash", "Agent", "Task"]
---

# Respond to Evaluations

Convert a semester's course evaluations into a defensible teaching-improvement plan. Cluster free-text comments into themes, weight each theme by how many independent students raised it, classify what to do about it, and draft specific changes pointed at the syllabus and deck — so next semester's revision is a checklist, not a vibe.

**Posture (echoes `/respond-to-referees`):** one angry comment is not a trend, and a comment you disagree with is a signal to *investigate*, not a license to ignore or to auto-act. A single student's frustration may be the only one willing to say what twenty felt — frequency weights the theme, it does not gate it. Ground truth here is a process: the plan records *why* a theme was kept or changed, so the reasoning survives to the next round.

## When to use

- End of term, when numeric scores + open-text comments land and you want a revision plan, not a mood.
- Assembling a teaching dossier / tenure file where you must *show* you acted on feedback.
- Mid-stream (early-semester feedback) to course-correct before the term ends.

Not for: writing the syllabus from scratch (use `/syllabus`), or reviewing one deck's pedagogy (use `/pedagogy-review`).

## Inputs

- `$0` — the evaluation file(s): a CSV/TSV export, `.txt`/`.md` of pasted comments, or a `.pdf`/`.docx` report.
- `$1` (optional) — the **prior** improvement plan, so this round is a diff (did last term's changes land?).

| Format | How to read |
| --- | --- |
| `.csv`, `.tsv`, `.txt`, `.md` | `Read` directly; for CSV, note which column is numeric vs free-text. |
| `.pdf` | `TMP=$(mktemp -d)/evals.txt && pdftotext "$0" "$TMP"` (poppler). Read/grep `"$TMP"`. |
| `.docx` | `TMP=$(mktemp -d)/evals.txt && pandoc "$0" -t plain -o "$TMP"`. |
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