Recently the Educational Testing Service (ETS) has modified its Student Instructional Report II (SIR II) for use in online distance education courses. The SIR II is a second-generation survey based on more than thirty years of experience with student evaluations (Centra, 1998; Centra and Gaubatz, n.d.). The e-SIR II is based on the highly successful SIR II and has been designed specifically for use in distance education courses. The e-SIR II takes less than fifteen minutes to complete and asks students to respond anonymously to forty-one course-related questions, five demographic questions, and up to nine additional questions added by the institution or instructor. The e-SIR II also includes an open-ended question that allows students to type in comments about the class. ETS captures these comments and reports them anonymously, without editing, to the instructor and institution. The forty-one course-related questions on the e-SIR II measure 8 dimensions: (1) resources provided to support course requirements; (2) communication; (3) faculty-student interaction; (4) assignments, exams, and grading; (5) instructional methods and materials; (6) course outcomes; (7) student effort and involvement; and (8) course difficulty, workload, and pace. The validity and reliability of the student evaluations are also strengthened by the way in which the e-SIR II is administered. After a college or university's institutional coordinator provides information to ETS about the courses to be evaluated, on a date designated by the institution, students enrolled in the course to be evaluated are sent e-mail messages providing them with PIN numbers and instructing them to evaluate their courses. Students can link to the evaluation form from the e-mail message. Five working days after the initial e-mail, students are sent a reminder via e-mail. Five days after the reminder notice, the evaluation period is closed. Approximately one week after the evaluation period is closed, reports are sent to the institutional coordinator. One limitation of the e-SIR II is that comparative data are sparse. (Data on more than fifty thousand courses are available for the SIR II.) However, as institutions begin using the e-SIR II to evaluate their distance education programs, a comparison base will begin to be developed that will allow institutions to make normative evaluations of their distance education classes.