Course Evaluations

Student Experience Survey (SES)

The Student Experience Survey (SES) tool created by Fordham faculty, for Fordham faculty. You can view the SES questions here. It offers fewer questions and a stronger focus on the student learning experience than the SEEQ (Student Evaluation of Educational Quality), which it replaced in 2025. 

Student Engagement
The SES opens approximately two weeks prior to the last day of class in each semester. Students receive an email with a unique link, granting access to a separate survey for each of their courses. To encourage student participation, we offer these suggestions to instructors:

  • Mention the SES in your classes shortly before or after the launch date would be very helpful. For instance, you might want to let them know:
    • How to access the SES (individual emails will be sent to each student with a unique link).
    • The anonymity of the survey.
    • How the data is used by the University.
    • How you typically use such feedback in your own teaching practice.
    • How students can access headline results from these surveys (if students ask how they can access past scores, please let them know that they can find them on Blackboard by clicking on "Tools" and then “Student Feedback Report”).
  • Prepare students before they complete the SES. Prepare students by spending some time discussing the course. It’s easy to forget topics that were covered in the first few weeks of the semester. Likewise, getting students to discuss what they found most interesting or engaging, and what they would have done differently if they could rewind the semester clock, is a good way to help them think about completing the survey.
  • Allot time in one of your classes for students to complete the online survey. Unsurprisingly, response rates are higher when students are invited to complete the survey in class.

Reports
Some time after final grades have been submitted, instructors receive a report summarizing student responses for each of their courses. Reports for classes with fewer than three completed surveys are not generated in order to help protect student anonymity.

To support instructors in interpreting these changes between the SES and its predecessor, the SEEQ, we’ve provided additional guidance here. Instructors who have questions about the SES or would like further support in understanding results should email [email protected].