Instructor Questions
The Instructor Module is an optional space on the CE Survey where instructors can add up to 4 questions to learn more about students' learning experience in their course.
These questions are in addition to the following existing survey questions:
The Instructor Question Bank is available for instructors when they login to the CES portal, where they can add questions to the upcoming course survey. Instructors can select or create their own questions that align with their interests and feedback.
If you are an instructor planning for a future semester and don't have access to the CES portal, you can download the Instructor Question Item Bank.
The responses to the instructor questions are shared only with the instructor to support their inquiry into learning and teaching. It is a good opportunity to gain feedback on a new approach or change that instructors are experimenting with
NEW! In Fall 2023, we have updated our question bank from which instructors can choose up to 4 questions to personalize their survey with.
Here is an overview on what’s been updated:
We’ve re-organized our question bank to make it easier to navigate. We have also refined the question bank by excluding similar questions.
We’ve added two new question categories, in areas many instructors are interested in: Alternative Assessment Models & Student Well-being.
Alternative Assessment Models: If you are incorporating alternative grading methods or ungrading in your course, the Course Experience Surveys can help you learn more about the impact of your implementation of alternative assessment on your students. This also gives you the chance to gain student perspectives on the strengths of this approach as well as potential improvements.
You can connect with the Centre of Educational Excellence (CEE) to request custom workshops for support in designing an alternative assessment approach for your course.
Student Well-being: Feeling supported within a learning environment can impact students’ academic experience and well-being immensely. This category of questions can allow you to identify ways in which you can incorporate well-being practices in your teaching strategies. If you already have such practices in place, you can use these questions or create your own to hear about how it’s going from your students.
Learn more about how well-being practices are used in classrooms across SFU through the Tools for Well-being in the Classroom (TWC) initiative carried out by SFU’s Health Promotion team in collaboration with Transforming Inquiry into Learning & Teaching (TILT)