Course Evaluation Survey Template

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This course evaluation survey template helps you collect student feedback on one course, including its organization, teaching, materials, pace, and workload. Use the eight questions to identify what to keep and what to improve for the next group. Adapt the example to your course and create your evaluation with SurveyLegend.

When to Use a Course Evaluation Survey

Send this questionnaire to people who took the course. It asks about one course rather than the wider school or campus experience. Their answers can help you plan improvements, but feedback alone is not a test of how much someone learned. For broader feedback about the school experience, explore SurveyLegend’s student satisfaction survey template.

8 Course Evaluation Questions to Customize

These questions cover learning goals, course organization, materials, explanations, pace, and workload. The two written-response questions help students identify what to keep and what to improve. Keep pace separate from workload: a course can move too quickly even when the amount of assigned work feels manageable.

Customize the Course Evaluation Survey

Add the course name and the period being reviewed to your introduction. Replace references to lessons with sessions, modules, or lectures as needed. Keep a not-applicable option for activities some students may not have experienced. Explain who will review responses and how the feedback will be used.

For a self-paced course without an instructor, replace the instructor question with “How clear were the explanations in the course?” For an assignment-based course, you can add “How useful was the feedback on your assignments?” with a five-point scale from Not at all useful to Extremely useful, plus I did not receive assignment feedback. If you need an overall measure, add “Overall, how satisfied were you with this course?” with five balanced choices from Very dissatisfied to Very satisfied. Use that summary alongside the specific questions to decide what needs attention.

Printable course evaluation survey template

Use this printable course evaluation survey template to collect answers from people who prefer paper or are less comfortable with online forms. Hand out the questionnaire at the end of a class so students can share feedback without opening an online form.

Download the PDF, print the 8-question questionnaire, and provide copies for people to complete by hand. It includes the same core questions as the online template, with space for written answers.

Online or on paper, SurveyLegend helps you give your audience a way to respond that works for them.

AI prompt for a course evaluation survey

Create a course evaluation survey in SurveyLegend with questions about learning goals, course organization, materials, teaching, pace, and workload.

This prompt includes eight questions and their answer choices. Register for a free account to use it in SurveyLegend, then review and customize your survey before sharing it.

Create a course evaluation survey using the exact SurveyLegend questionnaire below.

Purpose: Collect feedback from participants about one course. Keep pace and workload separate. Do not treat opinions as evidence of learning achievement.

Requirements:
- Include exactly 8 questions in the order shown.
- Preserve every question, answer choice, answer-choice order and instruction verbatim. Do not rewrite, add, remove, combine or translate them.
- Keep every question optional. Use one selection for single-choice questions. Keep short text, long text and email fields as specified.
- Show all questions. Preserve any instructions about when to answer or leave a field blank. Do not invent automatic branching, scoring or required fields.
- Do not invent an anonymity promise, a validated score, sample responses or results.
- If you can build a form, use this specification. Otherwise, return the complete structured questionnaire for manual setup and state that no working form has been created.
- If a field or setting cannot be reproduced, identify the limitation rather than silently substituting it.

Exact questionnaire:

1. How clear were the learning goals for this course?
Field type: Single choice
Answer choices, in order:
- Not at all clear
- Slightly clear
- Moderately clear
- Very clear
- Extremely clear
Required: No

2. How easy was it to follow the organization of the course?
Field type: Single choice
Answer choices, in order:
- Very difficult
- Somewhat difficult
- Neither easy nor difficult
- Somewhat easy
- Very easy
Required: No

3. How useful were the course materials for your learning?
Field type: Single choice
Answer choices, in order:
- Not at all useful
- Slightly useful
- Moderately useful
- Very useful
- Extremely useful
- Not applicable
Required: No

4. How clear were the instructor’s explanations?
Field type: Single choice
Answer choices, in order:
- Not at all clear
- Slightly clear
- Moderately clear
- Very clear
- Extremely clear
- Not applicable
Required: No

5. How would you describe the pace of the course?
Field type: Single choice
Answer choices, in order:
- Much too slow
- A little too slow
- About right
- A little too fast
- Much too fast
Required: No

6. How manageable was the course workload?
Field type: Single choice
Answer choices, in order:
- Not at all manageable
- Slightly manageable
- Moderately manageable
- Very manageable
- Extremely manageable
Required: No

7. Which part of the course was most useful to you?
Field type: Long text
Answer choices: none; respondent enters their own text.
Required: No

8. What would you change for the next group taking this course?
Field type: Long text
Answer choices: none; respondent enters their own text.
Required: No

Before finishing, check the question count, exact wording, choice order, field types and optional settings against this specification. Report any differences separately from the questionnaire. Do not claim an exact match if differences remain.

Use prompt directly in SurveyLegend

Create a free account, then paste the copied prompt into SurveyLegend.

Use Student Feedback to Plan the Next Course

Review organization, materials, teaching, pace, and workload separately. If explanations are clear but the pace is too fast, consider where students need more practice or review time. If materials receive poor feedback, use written comments to identify the resources to examine. Keep “Not applicable” responses separate from ratings of materials or teaching. Group suggestions by theme, choose the changes you can make, and document what you will revisit for the next course. Use assessment results alongside feedback when evaluating learning outcomes.

For example, if students describe a fast pace and name one difficult module, review that module’s sequence and practice activities before shortening the entire course. Choose one change, record why you made it, and ask the next group the same relevant questions.

When should I send a course evaluation?

Send it when participants have experienced enough of the course to comment meaningfully. Use a consistent point near completion and explain the response deadline.

Should I ask whether students liked the instructor?

Ask about specific teaching experiences, such as clarity of explanations or usefulness of feedback. These answers give you more to work with than a general popularity rating.

Can this be used for online courses?

Yes. Adapt references to the delivery format. If you need feedback about the learning platform, ask about it separately from the course content.

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