Your feedback becomes change, that’s why it’s crucial!

You’ve most likely already heard of MyView, the University’s feedback platform. Through MyView you can fill out surveys that let you share your thoughts and experiences about your subjects and classes over the semester. The data acquired will be used in our development processes. Thanks to your feedback, we, as an institution, can adjust the course materials, expectations, and teaching methods to the needs of our students.  We aggregate the data making sure it’s anonymous before giving it to our teaching colleagues. Click here to learn more about MyView, and the importance of feedback!  

Deadline for completion: 18 December 23:59  

You may find it difficult to put your opinions on a subject into words. But it’s still worth giving your thoughts space and sharing them with us! In order to really understand our students’ experiences and to make sure that the data from our questionnaires are representative, we need feedback from everyone – this is the only way to make sure that we have a true picture of our courses and our teaching.  

Based on your feedback, our lecturers can better understand which methods were the most useful during classes and how they could help you learn with even greater efficiency. We encourage you to think about your classes and find one or two elements that you felt helped you understand the material, or what you think could still be improved upon. Reflecting is not only good for the University, but also for your own development. It will help you to better understand your own learning preferences and what strategies and methods work for you. However, your lecturers need to know these to be able to take them into account when planning their teaching!    

The data collected through MyView is then used to further improve and develop the courses and materials, but what does this happen in practice? In the following, we will share 2-2 examples, that showcase rather well, why filling out MyView is important for the University and how the results we get through the survey contribute to making students’ learning experience better.  

Eszter Kirs, associate professor at the Department of International Relations, shared her experiences with MyView. The feedback helped her greatly in how to adjust the slides she used during classes to support her students in their learning to the fullest. She expanded the slides with more detail, so that they could serve as materials that helped students, even when studying at home.  

After reading students’ responses, she changed how she evaluated seminars, as beforehand, activity contributed to a larger part of the grading at the end of the semester. The feedback helped her understand that more introverted students might have a harder time with expressing themselves during sessions, thus in-class activity doesn’t necessarily reflect their skills and knowledge. Since then, she gives individual and written work more importance when grading, aiming to evaluate everyone’s performance as fairly as possible.  

Éva Mikáczó, assistant professor at the Department of Accounting, also told us about how she uses student feedback when teaching. Students were always eager to participate in the Kahoot championship during Basics of Accounting classes, as this served as a playful and effective tool for recapping previously learned materials. Due to its success, they started adapting these “championships” into several subjects in the Department to help students refresh and memorize what they had talked about so far.  

In Financial accounting 1. the tests were made up of several different materials, which sometimes made it hard for students to navigate and confusing to prepare. To alleviate this problem and make materials easier to find and keep track of, the Department introduced a weekly summary, where they collected which materials were most important. Due to positive feedback on this innovation, they have started using them in more subjects as well.    

Our lecturers like to share their best practices with each other and are more than happy to learn from their colleagues as well about innovative methods. This way, your feedback can have a much larger effect than you might imagine. What changes would you like to see?  

Share your student feedback! Fill out MyView here!