After the SES Closes

After the SES Closes

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.

  • You can review M-SES feedback starting at noon on Monday of Week 5. Only you will ever see M-SES feedback.
  • You can review E-SES feedback starting on noon on the day after grades are due in a term. In addition to you, your E-SES feedback can be seen by department heads and university committees for promotion, tenure or teaching awards.

Consider these once the SESs are complete:

 

Access Feedback

Instructors can access SES feedback through an interactive Instructor SES Dashboard that shows cumulative Student Experience Survey feedback from all courses. The reports organize student comments by PIERs pillar, and display results over time so instructors can track changes over time.

If an instructor needs printable reports, SES feedback is also available in DuckWeb, through collegeNET. This data is not organized by PIERs and only reports individual terms rather than tend information. To access SES data in DuckWeb, instructors can:

  • Login to DuckWeb, select “Course Surveys”, and click “Open the Course Surveys site”
  • In the Home drop-down menu, select “My Courses”
  • Locate the course of interest and the survey name and click "View"

 

Review and Analyze Feedback

In reading feedback, instructors might ask themselves:

  1. Is there a pattern or focal area in the feedback?
  2. If students raise concerns, do I find a some truth in them?
  3. Is the feedback actionable through
    • a modification to the class plan or approach (no matter how small)?
    • discussion of clarification of expectations or learning goals (if the feedback is from the Midway survey)?
  4. If the feedback was formative/from the Midway survey, how do I want to communicate with the class about their feedback?

For the M-SES, it is good practice to share results of the feedback you've gotten with your students. Our page on collective and using student feedback has suggestions for how to approach debriefing M-SES responses with students.

 

Complete Instructor Reflections

The Instructor Reflection is one way for faculty to provide evidence of Engaged Teaching for Teaching Evaluation purposes. The Instructor Reflection is optional and, unlike E-SES data, you can choose to include it in promotion, tenure, or award applications. 

Instructor Reflections open Monday of Week 10 and are available through the end of Week 1 in the following term. Just like the SES, they are administered by CollegeNET and accessed through DuckWeb. 

Learn more about Instructor Reflections as one component of teaching evaluations.

 

Redact Discriminatory, Obscene, or Demeaning Comments from E-SES Responses

The purpose of the E-SES is for students to reflect on, and provide feedback to their instructor about, their learning experiences in the course. Instructors have a right to have the student comments that are available for viewing by unit heads or personnel committees devoid of discriminatory, obscene, or demeaning language about them.   

You can request that potentially discriminatory, obscene, or demeaning comments be redacted from your E-SES reports. Understand the policy, find instructions for requesting redaction, and learn the redaction review process on our page on SES Comment Redaction. Faculty have one month after E-SES reports are released to submit requests for comment redaction.