Launch of the Semester 1 online Student Module Evaluation (SME)

Data collection period: 28 November 2011 – 13 January 2012.

The data collection period for the Semester 1 online Student Module Evaluation (SME), formerly the Module Feedback Questionnaire, is now open.

The module evaluation has been reduced to ten questions and should take students approximately three minutes to complete. The changes to the module evaluation question set and title were approved by the Learning, Teaching and Student Support Committee on 12 October 2011.

Eligible students have been invited to complete their evaluations online, which they can access via:

• their email invitation
• the ‘My Module Evaluations’ image link (student access only) on Blackboard 
• the current students homepage
  

Approximately 40,000 online evaluations have been issued for Semester 1. In the past, we’ve received a good response to the initial invitation, but would ask all Module Leaders to encourage their students to take part as early as possible and to monitor response rates for their module(s) throughout the data collection period. 
 
Deans of Schools and Heads of Departments will receive weekly response rate reports for each module, for onward circulation to Module Leaders.
 
For more information about the SME, including the questions, answer categories and privacy statement, please visit www.westminster.ac.uk/sme or email onlinesme@westminster.ac.uk
 

UPDATED PROCESSES FOR THE COLLECTION AND USE OF STUDENT EVALUATION FEEDBACK
 
As notified previously, a new policy and related processes for the collection and use of student feedback (including SME data) were approved by the University Executive Board, with effect from 2010/11.
 
For full details, please visit www.wmin.ac.uk/page-20676
 

Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
 

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