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Course Evaluation and Feedback

The Centre for Teaching and Learning (ZLL) supports you in designing and conducting course evaluations and other feedback instruments. These include:

the standardised course evaluation using the basic questionnaire
additional instruments to obtain student feedback during the semester

Course evaluation and feedback are key elements in maintaining and enhancing the quality of teaching. They provide you with insights into students’ perspectives on your course and offer indications of what has supported - or possibly hindered - their learning process.

If you are interested in attending ZLL workshops on course evaluation and other feedback instruments, you can find them here.

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Standardised Course Evaluation: Basic Questionnaire & evasys

Course evaluations at TU Hamburg are carried out using a short basic questionnaire. This offers you the option of adding your own course-specific questions. We use the software evasys© for this purpose.

You will receive the results of your course evaluation in a collective dispatch before the end of the semester, giving you the opportunity to discuss the results with your students. Via the evasys+ interface, you can access your evaluation results at any time; please use your TUHH login credentials.

The ZLL provides guidance on the operational process of course evaluations. We offer support in designing a questionnaire tailored to your specific information needs and assist with implementing it in evasys.

Course Feedback during the semester

For small student groups or formative surveys conducted mid-semester, alternative evaluation instruments may be more appropriate. These can focus on content understanding (e.g. what have students already grasped at a certain point and what not?) or on evaluating the course itself (e.g. how do students assess aspects of your teaching?).

Collecting feedback mid-semester (formative evaluation), gives you the opportunity to make adjustments to the ongoing course. Formative feedback enables a direct and timely dialogue between teaching staff and students, helping to jointly create optimal conditions for successful learning.

How would you like to use ongoing course feedback?

FAQ – Standardised Course Evaluation

I haven’t received a link for the evaluation of my course. What could be the reason?

Course data, such as course title, lecturer name(s), type of course, institute etc., comes from TUNE. The Data centre extracts this data into a format compatible with evasys, we clean and process it, and then import it into evasys. Therefore, only courses correctly entered in TUNE can initially be imported and displayed in evasys. Sometimes, it is necessary to adjust the data set.

If your course was not included in the data import, please contact (mariette.kuehnelt(at)tuhh.de) directly so we can promptly add it to evasys and send you the QR code.

I can’t find my QR code – can I retrieve it myself?

Yes, you can retrieve the QR codes for your course evaluations yourself via the evasys+ interface. Log in at [link] using your TUHH login credentials. Under "Zugänge Umfrage", you will find the relevant QR codes available for download.

I received a QR code but I’m not teaching this course.

Course data, such as course title, lecturer name(s), type of course, institute etc., comes from TUNE. The Data Centre extracts this data into a format compatible with evasys, we clean and process it, and then import it into evasys. Therefore, only courses correctly entered in TUNE can initially be imported and displayed in evasys. Sometimes, it is necessary to adjust the data set.

I would like to add optional questions, but I’ve already received the QR code. Is it still possible?

Yes, you can still add optional questions to the basic questionnaire, as long as no one has submitted any responses yet. The QR code remains valid even after adding optional questions. However, once students start submitting responses using the QR code, it is no longer possible to make changes.

I wanted to add optional questions, but the link no longer works – why?

This may be because either the link has already been accessed and 'Fertigstellen/Finsih' has been clicked at the end of the form, or responses have already been submitted. If you would still like to use this process, please contact Mariette Kühnelt (mariette.kuehnelt(at)tuhh.de) directly to restart it.

Can co-teachers also access my evaluation results directly?

No. In evasys, only one main lecturer is responsible for the course evaluation and only this person can access the results or QR codes directly via evasys+.

However, it is possible to register co-teachers for a course. They will then also receive the evaluation results as part of the regular collective dispatch. Unfortunately, co-teachers currently do not automatically receive the QR code (this is not yet technically possible) nor do they have access to optional questions or the ability to retrieve results via evasys+.

Your ZLL contacts

Mariette Kühnelt

Katrin Billerbeck

TU Hamburg

Hamburg University of Technology

Centre for Teaching and Learning (ZLL)

Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 3

21073 Hamburg

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