Helen Carmichael, Matt Grange and Matt Linguard - Working with Students

Dr Helen CarmichaelDirector of Learning, Teaching and Enhancement

Matt GrangeStudents’ Union Vice-President, Education

Matt LingardHead of Technology Enhanced Learning

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Working with students to review, refresh and relaunch module evaluation

AUA Conference January 2016

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It’s all about student engagement


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Potential Issues• Student engagement• Poor communication

– To staff– To students

• Online• Data• Shared responsibility



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What changed this year?• Why did more students engage in the

survey?• Why does timing make a difference

to students completing the evaluation?

• What steps did we take to ensure students knew the importance of the evaluation?

• Why did the SU feel partnership was so key in the delivery?

7Watch video: http://bit.ly/yourchancetofeedback

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What the students said‘I didn’t really know what the point of a module evaluation was to be honest, I’ve seen

what it can do now’!

‘It was all so visible this year I knew when it was and how to do it’.

‘The SU video made us realise when to actually do the evaluation and it was really funny’!

‘We actually saw a change on our course from what we had said in the module evaluation which was really good. It was nice to know that what we had said made a

difference to our teaching’.

‘My course rep told me about it and then we did it in class, really easy process’.

‘I am a course rep and I knew about the evaluation before but didn’t know what it did. When it was explained to me I told all the people in my class to fill it out so they could

get their points across to the university’.

Quotes sourced from ‘Big Conversation Project’ 2015AUA Conference January 2016


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Other Changes• Project owner• Improved communication to staff

– More emails (!) with more advice– Guidance & resources (on web)

• Dedicated in-class time• Participation rate updates to Heads• Improved access to results

– Quicker– Wider



1) Strongly Agree

33.4% (2501)

2) Agree

46.1% (3452)

3) Neither Agree nor Disagree

10.6% (791)

4) Disagree

6.9% (520)

5) Strongly Disagree

3.1% (232)

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7496 people answered this question (100.0%)

Q1. Overall I’m satisfied with the quality of the module



