Two hundred students answered. Here is the page that tells you what they said.
Teaching produces more written feedback than anybody has time to read. A class of thirty leaves you sixty paragraphs. A department leaves you six hundred. The charts are the easy part. The reason this works for education is that the written answers get grouped into themes, with every original answer still there underneath, exactly as it was typed.
Schools and colleges are asking students what worked, asking parents whether the message is getting through, and asking staff the same things every other employer asks. The constraint is always time, and often devices: whatever you send has to work on a shared phone in a corridor.
When a survey goes out here
- End of term course evaluation, run in the last session before anybody leaves the room
- A quick check partway through a module, while there is still time to change something
- Student voice on a specific decision, where an anonymous box gets answers a show of hands never will
- Parent surveys after an event, a change of policy, or a new reporting format
- Staff wellbeing, which is an HR survey that happens to be in a school
The survey types this sector runs most
Each one comes with its questions already written, the scoring explained, and the mistakes named.
Course evaluation survey
A course evaluation is easy to run and hard to read, because the useful part is written and there is a lot of it. The charts tell you the shape. The written answers tell you what to change. FreeSurvey groups the written ones so you can see the six things people said, rather than the two hundred times they said them.
See the questions EventEvent feedback survey
Event feedback has a short half-life. Ask in the room and you get detail. Ask on Monday and you get a mood. Everything about this survey is built around being answerable on a phone, standing up, in under a minute.
See the questions PulsePulse survey
A pulse survey is short, repeated, and always asks the same core questions so you can watch a line move. The point is not the score in any single month. The point is the shape over six of them.
See the questionsQuestions worth asking in education
What is different about asking here
- Run evaluations before grades are released. Afterwards you are surveying how people feel about their mark.
- In the room beats by email by a wide margin. A QR code on the last slide is worth more than three reminder emails.
- If you are surveying under-18s, follow your own institution's consent and data policy. That is your call to make, not something a survey tool can decide for you.
Students answer without an account, so nothing links a response to a person or a device by default. Nothing is sold and nothing is handed to anybody else. You can export the answers and you can delete them, whenever you want.
Security and dataDo students need to create an account?
No. They open the link, answer, and that is the whole interaction. It is the single biggest thing you can do for response rate in a classroom.
Can I reuse the same evaluation every term?
Yes, and keeping the wording identical is what lets you tell whether a change you made worked.
How do I read hundreds of written answers?
The results page groups them into themes with a count on each, and keeps every original answer readable underneath, word for word.