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Mid-course Feedback

Gathering midcourse feedback from your students offers many benefits for their learning and your teaching. It can help you to:

Identify the teaching practices that benefit students’ learning and those that do not,

Heighten students’ awareness of the ways you support their learning experiences,
Engage students in practicing metacognition by reflecting on their learning,
Discuss with students the rationale for how and why you are adjusting the course based on their feedback,
Increase students’ engagement in the course
Improve end-of-term teaching evaluations.

The two-question anonymous survey available in LATTE gathers information about students’ learning experiences. Please see these instructions to locate and make visible the Course Feedback form in LATTE and explicitly invite your students to complete it.

The CTL would be happy to help you identify patterns and themes in your student feedback and keep the occasional outlier comment in perspective. The CTL can also help you develop your own feedback survey and lead focus groups in your course, if you're interested. As always, you can schedule a one-on-one consultation with the CTL staff. These confidential services are not connected with promotion or tenure reviews (although you may choose to document these as evidence of your teaching development efforts).

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Location of Midcourse Feedback Forms

The students’ mid-course feedback is meant only for the instructor; the instructor is the only one who reads and assesses the students’ responses. All student responses to the Mid-course Feedback questions in LATTE are configured to be anonymous.

The Mid-course Feedback questions appear as hidden activities (grayed-out text) in your LATTE course. To make them visible to students, please follow these instructions.

View Midcourse Feedback Results

From your LATTE course homepage, click on "Course Feedback."
Click on the "Show responses" tab on the right and the "Show responses" button that appears in the tab.

An instructor has multiple options for viewing the students’ responses to the Feedback Form. These options appear when an instructor views the Course Feedback Form results (see instructions above).

View by Response: Click the “view by response” button to review results from each student one-by-one.
Download in Text Format: Saves a comma separated value file to your computer. Can be opened into an Excel spreadsheet for further analysis.

Warning: "Delete All Responses" clears the survey. If you choose this option, all data from students will be lost.

Responding to Mid-course Feedback

Among the most important aspects of mid-course feedback is how teachers respond to it. Summarize for your students what you learned from their feedback and identify any changes you’ll make to enhance their learning. Here are some guidelines for responding to midcourse feedback.

CTL staff are available to discuss your students' feedback and your response to it in confidence. Please sign up here for a confidential consultation.