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I dislike these types of sites and course evals in general. I think that students who have just taken a course are poor judges of the quality of the course:
Their judgments may be heavily influenced by:
1. their expected grades.
2. how entertaining the professor is.
3. recent events (exams they did poorly on or really well on).
4. professors making an announcement right before handing out evaluations that the final is optional or that he or she will drop the lowest test grade.
5. professors bringing bagels, coffee, pizza, or candy on the day of the evaluations.
I suppose these types of sites are better than official course evals because they have little influence on tenure, but evals by students in general...ugh.
I think that a course should be evaluated based on the amount you learned and how useful the information is to you rather than your grade or how entertaining the professor was. Universities should follow up with students a few years later. Ask them what courses they remember, what courses they still find useful today, etc.
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