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La Trobe University
Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Centre

Student Feedback on Subjects and Teaching

Note: Please submit the request for any Student Feedback survey form at least 10 working days prior to your planned administration date. If the Feedback Team receive requests with less advance notice, the Planning and Institutional Performance Unit (PIPU) cannot guarantee provision of forms by your requested date.

Contact us at: 94791911

Student Feedback Process Deadlines: Semester 1, 2012

The deadline for the receipt of survey orders has past (Friday 27 April 2012).

Deadline for receipt of survey orders:

All staff (except Faculty of Health Sciences): The deadline for the receipt of survey orders has past (Friday 27 April 2012).

Faculty of Health Sciences staff: please refer to FHS intranet site for SFS process and timelines

Deadline for return of completed surveys:

All staff (except Faculty of Health Sciences): The deadline for the receipt of survey orders has past (Friday 27 April 2012).

Faculty of Health Sciences staff - please refer to FHS intranet site for SFS process and timelines

Release of individual reports:

Week beginning Monday 16 July 2012


To ensure timely processing of results please note that any orders or completed surveys arriving after the above cut-off dates will not be processed by the Feedback Team unless there are exceptional circumstances.   This means that individual reports will NOT be provided or included in Semester One aggregate reports. 

Please also note that requests for Student Feedback survey forms must be made at least 10 working days prior to the planned administration date. If the Feedback Team receives requests with less than 10 days notice, we cannot guarantee provision of forms by the requested date.

Please do NOT recycle any Student Feedback survey forms from previous semesters because they are unable to be processed by the Feedback Team.

Surveys should be administered between Monday 7 May and Friday 25 May (Weeks 10-12). According to the Student Feedback on Subjects and Teaching Procedures (Policy Database Document Reference Number 116003D and 116004D), surveys are not to be administered in the final week or final session of a subject. They may be administered after approximately 75% of teaching is completed (usually during Weeks 10-12 of a 13-week semester or at an equivalent point during other teaching schedules).

If you have any questions about the Student Feedback process, please contact surveys@latrobe.edu.au.

Feedback forms

Please note there are different feedback forms for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Please contact Andy Chong on 9479 1911 or email student.feedback@latrobe.edu.au.

Type of Survey Who is eligible to request? How often can I request? How do I request? Deadline for return  of completed surveys Sample
Student Feedback on Subject (SFSU)
  • A faculty, school or department nominated representative.
  •  In the first semester of offer for all new undergraduate subjects
  •  At least annually for first-year subjects
  •  At least once every two years during which the subject is offered (each time if it taught for subjects taught in alternate years)

The deadline for the receipt of survey orders has past (Friday 27 April 2012).

 Close of business, Friday 8 June Sample SFSU form
Postgraduate Feedback on Subject (PFSU)
  • A faculty, school or department nominated representative.
  •  In the first semester of offer for new subjects
  •  At least annually for first-year subjects
  •  At least once every two years during which the subject is offered (each time if it taught for subjects taught in alternate years)

The deadline for the receipt of survey orders has past (Friday 27 April 2012).

 Close of business, Friday 8 June Sample PFSU form
Student Feedback on Teaching (SFTE)
  • Any member of La Trobe University continuing teaching staff can request a SFTE.
  • Subject coordinators can initiate requests for SFTE forms on behalf of casual teaching staff who conduct lectures.
  •  An SFTE questionnaire will be administered in at least one subject in each teaching period during which a staff member is teaching.
  •  Selection of the subject(s) in which students are to be surveyed will be made in consultation with the Head of School or performance supervisor.

The deadline for the receipt of survey orders has past (Friday 27 April 2012).

 Close of business, Friday 8 June Sample SFTE form
Student Feedback on Tutoring (SFTU)
  • Academic staff who are tutoring for subjects in which they also may or may not lecture can request their own SFTUs.
  • Subject coordinators can initiate requests for SFTU forms on behalf of casual teaching staff who conduct tutorials.
  •  An SFTU questionnaire will be administered in at least one subject in each teaching period during which a staff member is teaching.
  • Selection of the subject(s) in which students are to be surveyed will be made in consultation with the Head of School or performance supervisor.

The deadline for the receipt of survey orders has past (Friday 27 April 2012).

 Close of business, Friday 8 June Sample SFTU form
Student Feedback on Demonstrating (SFDE)
  • Academic staff who are conducting practical classes for subjects in which they also may or may not lecture can request their own SFDEs.
  • Subject coordinators can initiate requests for SFDE forms on behalf of casual teaching staff who conduct laboratory practical classes.
  •  An SFDE questionnaire will be administered in at least one subject in each teaching period during which a staff member is teaching.
  • Selection of the subject(s) in which students are to be surveyed will be made in consultation with the Head of School or performance supervisor.

The deadline for the receipt of survey orders has past (Friday 27 April 2012).

 Close of business, Friday 8 June Sample SFDE form
Student Feedback on Workshop (SFWO)
  • Academic staff who are conducting workshops for subjects in which they also lecture can request their own SFWOs.
  • Subject coordinators can initiate requests for SFWO forms on behalf of casual teaching staff who conduct workshops.
  •  An SFWO questionnaire will be administered in at least one subject in each teaching period during which a staff member is teaching.
  •  Selection of the subject(s) in which students are to be surveyed will be made in consultation with the Head of School or performance supervisor.

The deadline for the receipt of survey orders has past (Friday 27 April 2012).

 Close of business, Friday 8 June Sample SFWO
Postgraduate Feedback on Teaching (PFTE)
  • Any member of La Trobe University continuing teaching staff who is teaching a postgraduate coursework subject can request a PFTE.
  • Subject coordinators can initiate requests for PFTE forms on behalf of casual teaching staff who conduct lectures.
  •  A PFTE questionnaire will be administered in at least one subject in each teaching period during which a staff member is teaching.
  • Selection of the subject(s) in which students are to be surveyed will be made in consultation with the Head of School or performance supervisor.

The deadline for the receipt of survey orders has past (Friday 27 April 2012).

 Close of business, Friday 8 June Sample PFTE form

Student feedback policies and procedures