Gathering mid-semester feedback

Sample mid-semester surveys

We have designed a few sample surveys that you can download and import into your own Canvas courses.

Note: the downloads are meant to be imported to your course, so they are not readable if you unzip them to your computer.

Importing Sample Canvas surveys into your course site 

  1. After downloading one of the surveys below, in the respective Course's Course Navigation, click Settings.
  2. Click Import Course Content button.
  3. In the drop-down menu for Content Type, select the QTI .zip file option.
  4. Choose File, select the downloaded ZIP file you want to import and click Open.

Open-ended survey questionnaire

Check out the sample open-ended survey questionnaire which you can use to ask students on what's helping in their learning, what's hindering learning and suggestions to improve the learning experience.

Download a sample open-ended survey questionnaire Download Download a sample open-ended survey questionnaire.

Start-Stop-Continue Feedback Survey  

Check out the sample start-stop-continue survey questionnaire that has three open-ended questions:  

  • What should I start doing to improve your learning?
  • What is hindering your learning that I should stop doing?  
  • What is helpful to your learning that your instructor should continue doing?

Download a sample Start-Stop-Continue survey Download Download a sample Start-Stop-Continue survey.

Mid-semester Survey questionnaires

Check out the following two sample mid-semester survey questionnaires that has both open-ended and likert-scale questions:  

 

Creating an anonymous feedback survey

If you prefer designing your own survey to gather mid-semester feedback, follow the steps below to create a survey.

  1. Select Quizzes from the course navigation.
  2. Select the + Quiz button.
  3. Under the Details tab, give your survey a name, and provide survey instructions in the text box.
  4. Select Ungraded Survey from the Quiz Type menu.
  5. Select the Keep Submissions Anonymous box.
  6. Click on the Questions tab.
  7. Add the questions to your survey. 
  8. When done, select Save & Publish.

Good practices 

Read this resource guide to understand good practices on gathering formative feedback through mid-semester evaluations, the various techniques that you can use to gather feedback and on ways in which you can close the loop with your students.