Module Evaluation
Gathering module evaluation is a critical part of our approach to course management, and we have a developed a new way to gather data from students in a way which ensures anonymity and can meaningfully use the data to identify good practice and where reviews and enhancement may be needed.
Data security, management and access
All data is gathered and stored in alignment with the University's Data Management and Data Security policies. The evaluation of module feedback from students is undertaken by course teams as part of the course management remit, with the express purpose of ensuring a high quality academic experience for our students, and to support staff in identifying areas in their own practice for enhancement.
Module evaluation reports are currently accessible as follows:
| Role Type | Level of access |
|---|---|
| Dean of School | Access to all module and course information in School |
| Associate Dean, Learning, Teaching and Student Experience | Access to all module and course information in School |
| Head of Subject | Access to all module evaluation reports for all courses in subject portfolio |
| Course Leader | Access to module evaluation reports for all modules on specified course |
| Module Leader | Access to modules where there is leadership responsibility (requires nomination by course leadership; may not be immediately available) |
Question sets and access
The questions used in the module evaluation are based upon questions in the National Student Survey, with students given a five point scale to indicate their positivity score for each component at a module level. There is an additional question giving opportunity for free text comments to be included.
The new Brightspace templates includes an announcement which promotes completion of the survey, and each student will be provided with a unique link. While this is a unique link, it is created to maintain anonymity, while also ensuring that each student can only complete the survey once for each module.
We encourage module tutors to make time in a learning session for the survey to be completed. Daily reports will be run to ensure that reminders are sent to students to complete their evaluation up to two weeks after the last date of teaching for the module.
Viewing data and reports
A PDF report will be automatically generated two weeks after the last survey response is received, which are immediately available to related staff (see the 'Access levels for module evaluation' table above) via a secured SharePoint folder for the course.
In addition, we send email updates as follows: module leaders will receive an email flagging the availability of the new report on the day of generation, where they have been nominated ahead of release, or immediately upon their nomination being recorded; course leaders receive emails up to twice a week to share new or upcoming evaluations (only when new information is available to share); and subject heads, Deans and Associate Deans (LTSE) receive an aggregated email on the first Monday of the month, summarising all new evaluations published during the prior calendar month.
Finally, we launched an interactive Power BI dashboard in April 2025 which provides access to all data available to a user based on their role (see the 'Access levels for module evaluation' table above) as well as aggregated comparison points which are limited to the user's context (i.e., a module leader may only compare against the course average(s) for a course or courses they teach on, or their subject or school average(s)). We have included some example views below. It is important to note that these images represent manufactured test data.
Example module summary dashboard
Example Module evaluation expanded view
