Spring 2025 End-of-term SES
- OPEN: Wednesday, May 28 at 8 a.m. Instructors can add their own questions up until the survey opens.
- CLOSE: Monday, June 9 at 6 a.m.
- Reports available Wednesday, June 18, at noon
- Flag comments through Friday, July 18, at noon
NEW, Spring 2025! Encourage students to complete all their surveys to get access to their grades as soon as instructors enter them. Grades will be available to all students on Wednesday, June 18, whether they completed their surveys or not. See FAQ for more information.
Instructor Reflections (Optional)
- OPEN: Monday, June 2, at 8 a.m.
- CLOSE: Friday, October 3, at 6 p.m.
E-SES and IR surveys cannot be submitted or reopened after they close. Questions? Email CourseSurvey@uoregon.edu
Students have distinctive, valuable insights to offer about the teaching and learning experience. The Student Experience Survey offers an opportunity for formative and summative feedback that we hope will be even more valuable to instructors than previous student course "evaluations."
The surveys ask students about specific teaching elements drawn from research on the teaching practices that are significant to student learning. These teaching practices are aligned with the UO definition of teaching quality.
University Communications also encourages students to submit their feedback, but here are tips to drive quality submissions:
- Add your own questions to the survey
- Emphasize to students that their feedback matters to you
- Allow class time for survey submission using this instructional slide
- Consider using an in-class protocol to focus students' attention on the survey.
- Send custom reminder emails to students
Offer a nominal amount of extra credit to the entire class if the majority of students complete the survey.
NEW, Spring 2025: You can easily import into your Canvas course one of two ready-made assignments for your students to complete the SES. The assignments include clear how-to steps for you.To access the assignments, you will need to be logged into the Academic instance of Canvas. Then go to Canvas Commons and search "Student Experience Surveys."
Reports from the survey are available to instructors after grades have been submitted. TEP welcomes meeting with faculty and GEs who wish to debrief survey feedback and think together about how they might like to apply select feedback to the course. Individual instructors might want to contextualize results by addressing them in personal statements and in the new Instructor Reflection survey.
Resources
- Office of the Provost: Revising UO's Teaching Evaluations
- Office of the Provost: Student Guide - Student Experience Survey
- Teaching Engagement Program: Student Feedback
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
If you have questions or comments, please e-mail CourseSurvey@uoregon.edu. Thank you for your participation!
Students don't see a survey for my class. What does that mean?
Surveys are administered to courses with 5 or more students. If you teach a 400/500 course, one or both of the sections may not meet this minimum. You can email CourseSurvey@uoregon.edu during week 8 to request your sections be merged manually in the survey system. Please note that requests are not guaranteed to be fulfilled.
Summer course surveys will be distributed to courses in nine parts of term (A12, A4, A6, A8, E4, E8, G6, I4, Z9). Summer courses in other parts of term or that are less than three weeks will not receive surveys.
If you have questions or comments, please e-mail CourseSurvey@uoregon.edu. Thank you for your participation!
Why are grades held until the day after the grading deadline for students who don't complete their surveys?
Academic leadership requested an incentive to increase the quality and amount of student feedback. Previous experience with similar motivators resulted in a majority of students participating in surveys. Starting with a Spring 2025 pilot, students who complete, or proactively decline to complete, all their course surveys will have access to their grades as soon as they are entered into Duckweb. Students who choose not to complete surveys, will have their grades held until the day after grades are due. At that point, all grades will be released with no additional check on survey completion. Certain groups of students who could be negatively impacted by this have been identified and will not be affected if they do not complete all their surveys.
Is student feedback anonymous?
Effective Fall 2019, all student feedback collected via the Student Experience Surveys will be anonymous. The University of Oregon has contracted with an outside vendor to manage and store the student feedback data. Students login to DuckWeb to access the course survey system, then are redirected to our third-party partner for collection of the data. The University of Oregon does not have access to the student’s identifying data.
Who can see the results?
End-of-course Student Experience Survey: Instructors, department heads, deans, personnel and awards committee can view student feedback.
Midway Student Experience Survey: Instructors can view student feedback.
Instructor Added Questions: Instructors can view student answers to these questions.
Instructor Reflections: Instructors, department heads, deans, personnel committee can view instructor reflections.
What browser versions are supported by the survey system?
Course surveys can be accessed using any of the following browsers: Apple Safari, Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and built-in browsers on iOS and Android.
Note: The system supports the latest version of any browsers listed above and up to two major versions back. Due to variations in web standards, there may be minor display differences among browsers.
What if I missed the deadline?
Once a deadline has passed and the survey has closed, surveys cannot be reopened for you or students to enter a response.