Trace

How to Access TRACE Survey Results:

For courses taught in Summer 2025 onward, faculty members can access their TRACE survey results by clicking on the following link: myTRACE 2025-Forward, which navigates to a dashboard in the Explorance platform with TRACE results for each course taught.

For courses taught before Summer 2025, faculty members can access previous TRACE survey results by clicking on the following link: MyTRACE 2015-2025, which navigates to a dashboard in the CollegeNET platform with TRACE results for courses taught.

How to Request Comment Redaction:

Faculty can review their own TRACE reports, including student comments, before they are published and made available to the university community. Faculty have access to their results the evening after grades are due. Redaction requests must be submitted within 10 business days after grades are due and will be sent to the Provost’s Office for review. Faculty may request redaction of any comments that meet either of the following:

Criteria for Redaction:

  1. Appear to evaluate the instructor on criteria not related to her/his teaching performance and/or on a discriminatory basis. The university’s Equal Opportunity Policy affirms that “Northeastern University does not condone discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, religious creed, genetics, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, veteran or disability status.”
  2. Raise allegations of professional impropriety (including harassment or discrimination) on the part of the instructor. Such allegations may be redacted and referred to the appropriate university authorities for investigation.

To request redaction of any comment, take the following steps:

  1. Within each of your TRACE reports, you will find a link entitled “Click here to request redactions.” When you click on this link, you will be directed to a separate login. Select the yellow “SAML” button and use your NU credentials. The landing page is the “Comment Explorer” that shows all comments from all courses you have taught in the semester or term.
  2. The “Add filters” button allows you to filter by course and review all comments for a specific course.
  3. For a comment that you wish to redact, click on the redaction icon (the second icon from the left, a “locked paper” icon), and a pop-up window will appear.
  4. In this window, briefly describe why you think a comment meets either of the two criteria for redaction.
  5. After you enter your description, click the “submit” button in the bottom-right corner to submit your request.