Student Feedback on Units

You have the opportunity to provide feedback on each unit you undertake by completing a Student Feedback on Unit (SFU) survey. This feedback is the key to helping us improve your units of study.

Results of the survey will be used to revise unit content and design, learning guides, teaching methods, assessment process and teaching materials.

How do I provide feedback?

The Survey team will send an email to your student email account.

To provide your feedback, click on the link/s in this email for each of your enrolled units and you will go directly to a feedback survey for that unit.

You have until Monday 10 June to provide your feedback.

You may not see links to all of your units in your first SFU email as some academics have chosen to delay distribution of their SFU surveys. You will receive an emails in the coming weeks with the relevant link/s to any of your missing units, inviting you to provide feedback.

How your feedback makes a difference

Over the past few years, your feedback has helped assessment guidelines become clearer and more consistent, encouraged assessment due dates to be changed to different times, changed course content (for example, the Music course underwent an entire course review) and encouraged flexible teaching by adding online components to many UWS units.

Confidentiality and SFU

The SFU survey is run by the Office of Strategy and Quality for the purpose of reviewing and improving units across UWS.

Your response will be confidential and stored on a secure database. The response that you provide will not contain any identifying information when it is reported on. After all results for your units have been released, reports will be run by the Office of Strategy and Quality on all SFU surveys completed for each unit. Unit Coordinators will receive a summary of the results for their unit/s. They cannot modify any exam or assessment results based on the feedback you and your fellow students provide on the unit. Unit Coordinators will use these results to revise unit content and design, learning guides, teaching methods, assessment processes and teaching materials.

To see what is in the Unit Coordinator’s report, and how all names and identifying information are removed, please see the SFU sample report.

SFU and Student Feedback on Teaching (SFT) Surveys

In addition to the SFU which is emailed to you so you can provide feedback on your units, the University also runs a Student Feedback on Teaching (SFT) survey which gives you a chance to evaluate the teaching of your tutor or lecturer. It is up to the discretion of the teacher whether they want to be involved in the SFT. If they chose to do so, you be given a paper copy of this survey in class. You response will be anonymous. The Survey team are looking at reviewing the SFT survey and moving it online in 2014.
 

Information for Unit Coordinators -How to use the Student Feedback on Units Response Rate Dashboard