Spring 2025 End-of-term SES
OPEN: Wednesday, May 28 at 8 a.m. | CLOSE: Monday, June 9 at 6 a.m.
Instructors can add their own questions up until the survey opens.
Reports available Wednesday, June 18 at noon | Flag Comments through Friday, July 18 at noon
Instructor Reflections (Optional)
OPEN: Monday June 2 at 8 a.m. | CLOSE: Friday, October 3 at 6:00 p.m.
E-SES and IR surveys cannot be submitted or reopened after they close.
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."
► Why we collect student feedback
► How to get students to submit feedback
► Add your own questions to the survey
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.
► Learn more on the Experience Surveys
► See the questions students are asked
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
► Turn on Canvas integration to add a survey link to the course site
► Allow class time for survey submission using this instructional slide
► 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
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.
► Accessing feedback and survey results
► Accessing course response rates
► Flagging comments for redaction
► Looking at your feedback over time: The NEW Instructor Dashboard
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 otp@uoregon.edu. Thank you for your participation!
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 otp@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.
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.
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.
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.
Once a deadline has passed and the survey has closed, surveys cannot be reopened for you or students to enter a response.