Course Evaluation Survey

Students want to give honest feedback without writing an essay, and program leads want numbers they can compare from one cohort to the next. This survey does both jobs at once. Respondents score four parts of the course on 5-star scales, answer a single recommendation question, and can add written comments if they have more to say, all in roughly six to eight minutes.

On your side, every submission arrives as structured data: consistent ratings you can average, a clear signal on whether students would recommend the training, and open comments that tell you why the numbers look the way they do.

Turning star ratings into curriculum decisions

The four rating fields, Content Quality, Instructor Effectiveness, Materials Provided, and Overall Value, act as a fixed scorecard. Because the same four scales run after every course, a dip in Materials Provided or a slide in Instructor Effectiveness stands out immediately in Uplup's per-question breakdowns. Export responses to CSV when you want to chart trends across terms, or push submissions to other tools through webhooks and Zapier.

The recommendation question, "Would you recommend this training?", offers four answers: Strongly yes, Yes, Maybe, and No. Treat "Maybe" as your early warning. Students who hesitate here usually explain themselves in the comment boxes, which is exactly where your next syllabus revision starts.

Eleven answers, from a name to a suggestion

The form holds 11 fields spread across a cover page, two content pages, and an ending page. Three text inputs are required: full name, email, and Course/Training Name, so every response ties back to a real student and a specific course. Instructor Name is optional, which lets one form cover a whole department without forcing the field on courses that rotate teachers.

After the four ratings and the recommendation question come two optional long-answer boxes, Key Takeaways and Suggestions for Improvement. Keeping them optional protects your completion rate: students in a hurry can finish on ratings alone, while motivated ones leave the paragraphs you'll actually quote in your next planning meeting.

Reshape it for your program before you send it

Every field is editable once the template is in your account, which takes a Pro plan. Rename the ratings to match your rubric, change a 5-star scale, add a module-specific question, or drop Instructor Name entirely. You can also apply your school or company branding, colors and logo included, so the survey looks like it came from you.

The template is set to conversational mode, one question at a time, which suits a reflective task like course feedback; switch to classic pages if you prefer. A progress bar and back navigation are available either way. When it's ready, share the link directly, print a QR code for the last slide of class, embed the form on your course page, or drop it into WordPress with the Uplup plugin's shortcode.

Who runs this after the final session

University departments use it to standardize end-of-term evaluations across instructors. Corporate L&D teams send it after workshops to decide which trainings get repeated and which get rebuilt. Bootcamps and independent trainers rely on the recommendation question as a quick health check between cohorts. In each case the pattern is the same: identical questions every time, comparable scores, and two comment boxes that surface the fixes numbers can't.