Course evaluations allow students to have their say
Published on 07 January, 2011
CQUniversity students can have their say about Term 3 courses and contribute to the enhancement of course offerings via an online questionnaire.
The course evaluation questionnaire will be open from January 10 to March 4, 2011, providing maximum opportunity for students to respond. The questionnaire can be completed anonymously and is easily accessed through the University's Moodle course site. There is just one question to answer, and students have the option to identify the best aspects of their course and areas which could be improved.
CQUniversity's Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) Professor Rob Reed said "conducting the course evaluations through Moodle has created excellent opportunities for closing the feedback loop for both staff and students.
Teaching staff are able to encourage their students to complete the survey for their courses to raise response rates and to ‘close the loop' in letting students know how the course has been enhanced as a direct result of their input.
Hearing the student voice and closing the loop with our students are two important aspects for improvement, identified as Vice-Chancellor's priorities within CQUniversity's 2011 Corporate Plan".
From Term 1 2011, students will be able to see the enhancements made as a result of student feedback as a specific link on the left hand side of each Moodle front page, as part of the University's approach to responding to student feedback.
The summary results for the Term 2 2010 course evaluations are now available on the Office of Learning and Teaching website at http://www.cqu.edu.au/surveys.
This website provides a ‘big picture' analysis, with an overview of what students have said, in terms of the main themes across all courses. In addition, the site contains a link to the overall satisfaction and participation responses for each Term 2 2010 course.
With over 5000 individual responses, the University greatly appreciates the feedback that students have provided and will continue to develop and strengthen course evaluation surveys through Term 3 2010 and into 2011.