Evaluate my course and teaching
Towards the end of each semester, you'll be invited to evaluate your course, teacher and tutor via an online Student Evaluation of Course and Teacher (SECaT) or Student Evaluation of Tutor (SETutor).
Evaluations are voluntary, confidential, and take only 3-5 minutes to complete. You can choose to opt out of individual surveys and you can evaluate only the staff who have taught you.
Begin SECaT or SETutor evaluation
Your feedback helps us to continually improve courses and teaching. Watch the video to learn more.
Your comments
Feedback provided through student evaluations should be constructive. Explain your perceptions of the course, teaching and tutoring strengths and weaknesses, with suggestions for improvements. We suggest you comment on aspects of course, teaching and tutoring quality, such as content, resources, assessments, teaching and learning strategies, or organisation.
Comments should be professionally communicated – that is, avoid using expletives or urban slang. Please also avoid comments of a personal nature that are not relevant to course, teaching and tutoring quality.
When completing evaluations, you're required to comply with the Student Integrity and Misconduct Policy, which outlines acceptable and inappropriate student behaviour. Offensive or inappropriate comments will be removed.
Grievances
Evaluations are not the mechanism for lodging grievances. Refer to the Student Grievance Resolution Policy if you have a grievance about academic or teaching standards.
Confidentiality
SECaT and SETutor responses are confidential. Individually identifiable data are not made available to university staff (i.e. academics and professional staff within faculties, schools, divisions, as well as other units external to ITaLI's Student Surveys and Evaluations Team and University Senior Executives) through general reporting or data requests.
Student confidentiality is further increased through the following reportable data thresholds:
- no SECaT or SETutor survey will be generated for courses with fewer than 5 students enrolled.
- no quantitative or qualitative data will be disclosed if a SECaT or SETutor survey has fewer than 5 responses.
The University keeps a record of student information related to the completion of student evaluations, which includes a record of student identification numbers against survey responses. The collection of student identification numbers allows the University to comply with its legal obligations.
The University will access student information related to student responses when required by law, and if a response is positively identified to be in breach of the University’s Student Integrity and Misconduct policy or duty of care responsibilities to students and staff. This includes but is not limited to responses which:
- contain threats to any student or staff.
- are perceived to be abusive, malicious, or discriminatory to the extent that they may constitute misconduct or serious misconduct.
Student identification information will then only be used to unpublish comments, manage allegations made in comments, and archived for legal purposes. Academic staff will not receive individually identifiable student information unless the University is required to provide the information for legal compliance.
Please refer to the Student Evaluation of Course and Teaching Procedure for more information.
Survey results
Results are primarily used for quality assurance purposes. Your feedback informs our understanding of teaching strengths and weaknesses and provides ideas about how courses and teaching can be improved.
Survey results are also used for recruitment, continuing employment and promotion, and for decisions about courses, programs, and the student experience. Survey results are not released to staff until after the finalisation of grades date each semester.
You can view quantitative survey results through the UQ Union website or via the link below:
Non-identifiable data collected from the UQ course and teaching survey instruments may be made available to staff for research purposes under Section 5.1 of the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (PDF, 603KB).