Education
Course evaluation
Separating the content from the teaching from the workload is what makes an evaluation actionable — a course people rated badly overall might have excellent teaching and far too much reading.
- Questions
- 6
- Takes about
- 3 min
- Style
- One page
- Scoring
- None
Free, no card. It lands in your workspace as an editable draft.
Worth knowing
- The welcome screen and the intro text above the first question carry example turnaround times, policies and promises. Rewrite them as yours before you publish — they are the part respondents take literally.
What's in it
Evaluate this course
Welcome screen
How your feedback is used Responses are read as a group, after the course has ended · Your…
Rich text
- 1
Which course?*
Short text
- 2
How would you rate these?
Matrix
- 3
How was the workload?
Opinion scale
- 4
What worked best?
Long text
- 5
What would you change?
Long text
- 6
Would you recommend this course?
Yes / No
Thank you
Ending
How to use this template
Open it as a draft
Press "Use this template" and it lands in your workspace as an editable form with all 6 questions already in it. No card, and nothing is published until you say so.
Cut what you do not need
Every question you remove is one fewer reason to abandon the form. It takes about 3 minutes to fill in as it stands, and that is the number worth protecting.
Add from the question bank
Pick what you are missing from the questions below. Drag any of them in, change the wording, and use conditional logic so people only see the ones that apply to them.
Share it, or put it on your own site
Publish to get a link, or embed it in a page you already have. Answers arrive in your dashboard, and you can send them on to anywhere else with a webhook or an integration.
32 course evaluation form questions to choose from
Course evaluations get written in the last five minutes of a session by people who want to leave. Keep them short, run them before the end rather than by email afterwards, and ask about the learning rather than the entertainment.
Separate the teaching from the material. They are different problems with different fixes.
The learning
- What were the main things you learned?
- Did the course meet its stated objectives?
- Was the level right for you? (Too basic, about right, too advanced)
- Was the pace right?
- What will you do differently as a result?
- How confident do you feel about this now? (1 to 5)
- How confident were you before?
- What is still unclear?
The teaching
- How clearly was the material explained?
- Was the tutor well prepared?
- Did the tutor answer questions well?
- Was there enough opportunity to ask?
- Did you feel comfortable contributing?
- Was feedback on your work useful?
- Was it returned quickly enough?
- What did the tutor do best?
The materials and format
- Were the handouts and slides useful?
- Was the reading list appropriate?
- Was there too much or too little material?
- Did the practical exercises help?
- Was the room or platform suitable?
- Was the length right?
- Was the timetable sensible?
- What should be added or removed?
Overall and next
- How would you rate the course overall? (1 to 5)
- Would you recommend it to a colleague? (0 to 10)
- Was it worth the time?
- Was it worth the cost?
- What is the one thing we should change?
- What should we definitely keep?
- What should we offer next?
- May we quote your feedback?
Course Evaluation form questions, answered
- What should a course evaluation form ask?
- What they learned, whether the level was right, and what should change. Separate questions about the tutor from questions about the material, because a good tutor cannot rescue a bad syllabus and the averaged score hides which you have.
- When should I run a course evaluation?
- In the final session while everyone is still there. Response rates for evaluations emailed afterwards are a fraction of those collected in the room.
- Should course evaluations be anonymous?
- Yes, particularly where the tutor also marks the work. Anonymity is what makes criticism of teaching possible, and it is the criticism you most need.
- How do I compare evaluations across courses?
- Keep a core set of identically worded questions on every course and add specific ones underneath. Rewording a rating question makes this term's numbers incomparable with last term's.
- Is this course evaluation form template free?
- Yes. Use it, publish it and collect answers on the free plan with no card. Paid plans add things like payments, scheduling, removing our badge and your own domain, but none of them are needed to run this form.
- Do I need an account to use it?
- You need one to edit and publish, because the form has to live somewhere and the answers have to come back to you. Signing up takes about a minute and does not ask for a card. The people filling your form in never need an account.
- Can I change the questions?
- All of them. The template is a starting point, not a fixed form: add, remove, reword and reorder anything, change the look, and use logic so people only see the questions that apply to them.
- Can I put it on my own website?
- Yes. Embed it in a page you already have, or share the link. On a paid plan you can serve it from your own domain so the address says your name rather than ours.
- Where do the answers go?
- Into your dashboard, where you can read, search and export them as CSV. You can also have each response emailed to you, pushed to another tool with a webhook, or sent to a connected integration.
- How long does this form take to fill in?
- About 3 minutes as it stands, across 6 questions. Every question you cut brings that down, and shorter forms get finished more often.
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