YC Psychology Faculty: Paige Sneso

Offers students an ongoing opportunity to provide feedback via a survey link on the course Home Page in Canvas. "I incorporate feedback typically by adjusting Canvas settings, as I most often receive feedback regarding assessments or how Canvas is set up."

Paige shares with students at the beginning of the course that she cares about improving the course and that students can expect her to be responsive to feedback. She shares specific examples of changes made in past semesters that affect the current course, that were a direct result of student feedback. Examples include:

randomizing groups of students for online discussions rather than having students remain in groups
adding another attempt to some formative assessments - "students now spend more time studying in order to improve on their 2nd attempt, which ultimately improves their scores on the single attempt summative assessments."
making module item titles even more descriptive and using bullet points to assignment descriptions to improve readability and clarity

YC Early Childhood Education Faculty: Maris Wagener

Surveys students during the course and responds through an announcement "And the Survey Says..."

One example of a course design change arising from student responses has to do with navigation. Some page have links that take students out of a page to another area of the course (not in another window). "I used to have a note about using the back arrow to return to a page at the bottom of the page but I now put it at the top of any links that will take them out of the page."

YC Earth Science Faculty: Korey Champe

Korey has used surveys to help refine the time requirements set on assessments. Now he rarely gets complaints about the time restriction.

Xochitl Tirado, Imperial Valley College

Require end-of-unit survey as module prerequisite.
Mix of general course questions and unit-specific questions
Make instructional adjustments such as creating a video to clarify instructions for a particular assignment