Course questions
Scaled
- I have received helpful feedback on how I am going in the course. (Currently course question 6 in the SECaT)
- So far, how would you rate this course? (Currently course question 8 in the SECaT)
Open-comment
- So far, what are the best aspects of this course? (Currently course question 9 in the SECaT)
- So far, what improvements would you suggest? (Currently course question 10 in the SECaT)
Teaching questions
Scaled
- … inspired me to learn. (Currently teaching question 5 in the SECaT)
- So far, how would you rate this teacher? (Currently teaching question 8 in the SECaT)
Open-comment
- So far, what aspects of this teacher’s approach best helps your learning? (Currently teaching question 9 in the SECaT)
- So far, what would you have liked this teacher to do differently? (Currently teaching question 10 in the SECaT)
Optional questions
Course Coordinators will also be able to write and add their own questions to the survey/s.
Each survey will allow Course Coordinators to add a maximum of 4 Scaled questions (S) and 2 Open-comment questions (OP) per survey. Including the standard questions, each survey can have a minimum of 4 questions and a maximum of 10 questions. If the teaching survey has been ordered, Course Coordinators will need to add questions for their teaching staff as well.
Once a survey has been ordered, Course Coordinators will be sent an email on the Monday of Teaching Week 4 with instructions and a link to the Optional Questions system. Optional scaled questions should be appropriately phrased to use the scales "Strongly Agree = 5, Agree = 4, Neutral = 3, Disagree = 2, Strongly Disagree = 1" for either the course and/or teaching surveys.
An example of the Optional Questions system is pictured below.

For surveys with more than one teaching staff, Course Coordinators can tailor questions to suit each staff member listed. If the same optional teaching questions are to be used for all staff members, those questions will need to be copied and pasted for each staff member.
As these surveys will be automatically sent to students on the Monday of Teaching Week 5 and the optional questions are not audited by the Evaluation Unit, we recommend that Course Coordinators review their questions to ensure they are correct and free of typos. Otherwise the surveys will be sent to students with errors.
We also recommend that Course Coordinators save a copy of their optional questions as the Evaluation System will not store those questions for future use.
Instructions for adding optional questions (PDF, 302KB) View Optional Questions Bank for examples