Fall 2025 End-of-term SES
- OPEN: Wednesday, November 26 at 8 a.m. Instructors can add their own questions up until the survey opens.
- CLOSE: Monday, December 8 at 6 a.m.
- RESPONSES AVAILABLE: starting Wednesday, December 17, at noon
- Flag comments for redaction through Saturday, January 17, at noon
Instructor Reflections
- OPEN: Monday, June 2, at 8 a.m.
- CLOSE: Friday, October 3, at 6 p.m.
While Instructor Reflections do not need to draw from student feedback, many faculty find it useful to reflect after having read the SES.
About the SES
The Student Experience Surveys (offered both midway through the term and at the end-of-term) provide an opportunity for formative and summative feedback that we hope will be supportive to instructors. Surveys run automatically, via DuckWeb.
Learn about the goals, structure, questions, and timing of the SES on our About the SES page.
Before the SES Opens
Before either SES survey opens, faculty and graduate instructors can personalize it and make plan for increasing participation.
Explore ways to motivate student participation in it and learn how to add your own questions and your photo to it (both optional) on our Before the SES Opens page.
While the SES is Open
Once the Student Experience Survey opens, you are encouraged to support student participation. UO will centrally advertise the E-SES, but not the M-SES: if you want midway feedback through that channel, you'll have to highlight it. You can improve the utility of the SES by giving students time for and guidance in giving feedback.
Explore ways to boost responses and get more useful feedback on our While the SES is Open page.
Once surveys are complete, you’ll want to review student feedback and decide what to do with it. For the M-SES, we also encourage you to share with your students how you’ll incorporate their feedback into the course.
Learn about accessing feedback, focused approaches to reviewing it, considering feedback in your Instructor Reflection, and requesting redaction for discriminatory comments on our After the SES Closes page.
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.
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 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?
All student feedback collected via the Student Experience Surveys is anonymous. The University of Oregon has contracted with an outside vendor to manage and store the student feedback data. Students 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 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.
Why doesn't the SES give me numeric scores or rankings?
The University of Oregon overhauled its student feedback system in 2018 following research into best practices to make it more useful to instructors and avoid common sources of bias.