Centre for Learning and Teaching

Student Learning Experience Questionnaires

SLEQ via Brightspace

Student Learning Experience Questionnaires (SLEQ) reports and tasks are available for students and instructors to access via Brightspace

Department Liaisions

Each Academic Unit has a designated individual who serves as the SLEQ Liaison. If you would like to know who to contact in your department, please contact SLEQ@dal.ca

SLEQ Questions?

 ✉ SLEQ@dal.ca

 

About SLEQ

The SLEQ website had moved to my.dal. To access the full website a login is required. 

Higher education institutions in Canada and abroad encourage faculty to use student feedback to provide insight about the student experience. Student Learning Experience Questionnaire feedback can be used to help assess teaching strategies, course suitability, and program relevance.

Results from the evaluations are used for a wide range of purposes. For example, they provide data and guidelines for:

  • Evaluation of teaching effectiveness.

  • Promotion and tenure applications for instructors, and other personnel decisions.

  • Quality assurance processes in the review and restructuring of institutional, faculty, department and program goals.

  • Preparation of supporting evidence for teaching awards and grants.

  • Enhancement of Dalhousie University teaching and learning profile regionally and nationally.

An essential component

Student Learning Experience Questionnaires (SLEQs) are crucial for evaluating the quality of education at Dalhousie University. They form an essential part of the university's formal evaluation strategy, which includes student feedback (both SLEQ results and direct evidence of students' achievement of learning outcomes), self-reflection, and peer evaluation of teaching. This peer evaluation can involve reviewing teaching materials and possibly observing teaching sessions, all of which are compiled into a comprehensive teaching dossier.

More informal strategies for gathering feedback or identifying ways in which courses and programs may be enhanced include peer consultation and in-class student feedback. Recommended resources (login required) provides information on assessing teaching effectiveness and how to use the results to enhance: 

  • learning and teaching

  • course or program design

  • summative and formative evaluation of teaching and learning.

Your feedback matters

Instructors use your feedback to improve their courses, teaching, and course design.

By submitting your feedback, you are actively improving the learning environment for future Dalhousie students.

Resources for students (login required) How students can confidentially provide constructive feedback on their courses, access SLEQ forms via Brightspace or via email, and understand the timeline for submitting their questionnaires

Contact us

We also invite you to contact us at SLEQ@dal.ca (email) if you have questions about the SLEQ process.