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Course evaluation template

Hear how the course really went, before the final grades are in

Eight questions for the last week of a course: an overall rating, how the teaching and assessments worked, the pace and the workload, and the one change students would make. Use it as it is or change any question, and Usertick reads every written answer for you.

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What this course evaluation survey tells you

A course evaluation survey asks students to look back at the whole course while the last classes are still fresh. This template takes about two minutes: an overall rating, five statements on organization, teaching, materials, assessments and feedback, the pace, the workload and the weekly hours, the most useful part, the one thing to change and whether they would recommend the course.

It is written for an email in the last week of the course, sent before final grades so a mark doesn't shape the answers. The same template runs as a link on the course page or in a final announcement, as a QR code on the last slide of the final class, or as a conversation that asks one question at a time.

Every written answer is read as it arrives and filed under a category from your education list, such as course content, teaching and tutors or assessments and grades, with a type and an urgency. Results shows the course rating and the share who rated it 4 or higher, a heat map of the five statements and the recommend score, each compared with the period before.

In an emailAs a linkOn your websiteAs a conversation
Questions
8
Time to answer
About 2 minutes
Written for
An email in the last week of the course, before final grades
Plans
Every plan, the free plan included

See it on every channel

The same template on your website, behind a link, in an email and as a conversation.

In an email

Send it from Usertick to a contact list, with the first question inside the email. A tap on an answer opens the rest of the survey with that answer already kept. Usertick sends 50 emails a month on the free plan, or connect your own sender.

The 8 questions, one by one

What each question asks, why it is there, what it shows you and what to change.

Question 1 of 8 · Stars

How would you rate this course overall?

Why ask it
One overall rating gives every course the same headline number, so you can compare sections, terms and instructors. It comes first because it is the easiest question to answer.
What you learn
Results shows the average out of 5, a bar per rating and the share who rated the course 4 or higher, against the period before.
Make it yours
Keep it first. In the email, students tap a star inside the message and the rest of the survey opens with that rating kept.
Question 2 of 8 · Matrix · Optional

How much do you agree with these statements?

Why ask it
The overall rating tells you how the course landed, and these five statements tell you why. They separate the course design (organization, materials, assessments) from the teaching (clear explanations, useful feedback), which can score very differently.
What you learn
A heat map with one row per statement and its average, so a course where students praised the explanations but found the assessments unfair shows it at a glance.
Make it yours
Keep each statement about one thing, and swap in your own, such as lab sessions or group projects, when they matter more for this course.
Question 3 of 8 · Multiple choice

The pace of the course was

Why ask it
Pace is a common reason a course feels hard or dull, and students can judge it in one tap.
What you learn
A donut with the share and count for too fast, about right and too slow. Select Too fast to filter the whole page to those students and read what they wrote.
Make it yours
Read it next to the hours question, since a course that feels too fast to students who study more than seven hours a week needs a different fix.
Question 4 of 8 · Multiple choice

The workload was

Why ask it
Pace and workload are different problems. A course can move at the right speed and still ask for too much reading or too many assignments.
What you learn
The share of too heavy, about right and too light, compared with the period before, so you can see whether a change to the assignments moved it.
Make it yours
When you cut or add an assignment between terms, keep this question exactly as it is so the two terms compare cleanly.
Question 5 of 8 · Multiple choice

About how many hours a week did you spend on this course outside class?

Why ask it
Hours outside class turn a feeling about workload into a rough number you can check against what the course outline expects.
What you learn
A donut with the share of each band. Select More than 7 to see how those students rated the course, the pace and the workload.
Make it yours
Change the bands to match the credit hours or the weekly study time your course outline promises.
Question 6 of 8 · Text · Optional

What was the most useful part of the course?

Why ask it
Students name the lecture, the project or the reading that made the course worth taking, which tells you what to protect when you redesign it.
What you learn
Usertick reads each answer, gives it a sentiment and a theme, and groups the answers into up to 8 themes with their trends, so you can filter to every answer about the labs or the case studies.
Make it yours
Keep it optional, and keep it before the change question so students start with what worked.
Question 7 of 8 · Text · Optional

If you could change one thing about the course, what would it be?

Why ask it
Asking for one change keeps answers short and specific. Students write the fix they care about most instead of a long list.
What you learn
Each answer is filed under a category from your list, such as schedule and pace or assessments and grades, and marked as an idea or a complaint with an urgency, in any language the student writes in.
Make it yours
Share the top themes with the instructor before the next term is planned, while there is still time to act on them.
Question 8 of 8 · NPS

How likely are you to recommend this course to a friend?

Why ask it
Whether a student would recommend the course to a friend sums up the whole experience, and it matters most for electives and paid courses that fill through word of mouth.
What you learn
The score (promoters 9 to 10 minus detractors 0 to 6), a bar of detractors, passives and promoters, and the score over time as a line, so each term sits next to the last.
Make it yours
Select the detractors in Results and read their answers to the change question first.

What the answers show

Results turns each question into numbers you can follow week by week.

How would you rate this course overall?

The average rating and the share who gave 4 or 5 stars, against the period before.

The pace of the course was

The share of each answer with its count. Select an answer to narrow the whole page to those people and read what else they said.

The workload was

The share of each answer with its count. Select an answer to narrow the whole page to those people and read what else they said.

Every written answer, read for you

Each answer arrives with its category, theme, type and urgency, so the urgent ones reach your team first.

Use this template in four steps

From the template to the first answers.

  1. 1

    Open the template

    Sign up free and pick Course evaluation in the template gallery. It opens in a matching style, ready to change.

  2. 2

    Make the questions yours

    Reword any question, change the options, and add logic or more questions.

  3. 3

    Choose where it runs

    Show it on your website, send it by email, share its link and QR code, or switch it to a conversation.

  4. 4

    Publish and read the answers

    Answers arrive in Results and the inbox as people send them, each written one read and filed by Usertick.

Tips for this survey

Small choices that keep people answering and the answers useful.

  1. 01

    Send it before final grades

    Schedule the email for the last week of classes, up to 30 days ahead, so students answer about the course before a mark colors their view.

  2. 02

    Give it class time

    Show the QR code on the last slide of the final class and leave five minutes for it. Students who answer in the room answer about the course they just finished.

  3. 03

    Use one survey per course

    Results doesn't split answers by a link tag, so give each course or section its own copy of the template when you want separate results for each.

  4. 04

    Tell the next class what changed

    Open the next term with two or three changes that came from the last evaluation, so new students know their answers will be read.

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Frequently asked questions

In the last week of the course, before final grades are released. Students still remember every part of the course, and a final mark doesn't yet shape their answers.

Enough to cover the course, the teaching and the workload without tiring students. This template asks eight, five of them a single tap, and takes about two minutes.

Yes, when you share the survey by link or QR code with anonymous responses turned on: no user ID, traits or visitor ID are stored with the answers, only the country and a salted hash of the IP address. A survey sent through Usertick email ties each answer to the student's contact, so use the link for an anonymous evaluation.

Select the 1 and 2 star ratings in Results, and the whole page narrows to those students. Start with the statement in the matrix with the lowest average, then read their answers to the change question.

Yes. Give each course its own copy of the survey with the same questions, then compare the ratings and recommend scores in each survey's Results. Free includes 3 surveys, Starter 10 and Pro unlimited.

Yes. Every template comes with every plan, the free plan included, and the free plan covers 150 responses a month across your surveys.

Yes. The template becomes your own survey, so reword any question, add or remove questions, and change the options and the logic. The gallery stays as it is.

Yes, from Starter. The template is written in US English. Add languages by hand or with AI translation, and each person sees the survey in their browser's language.

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