General Information
Speak Up!
As a student, you have the power, and the responsibility to provide feedback to instructors and administrators. By completing your Student Learning Experience Questionnaires, or SLEQ, you can help improve courses and teaching at Dalhousie. Your confidential feedback is important to the university, to the value of your degree, and to the learning experiences of future students.
Your SLEQ responses are completely confidential. The results become available to instructors and academic unit heads only after the final grades submission date has passed for the term.
Why should I complete my SLEQ? Do they actually make a difference?
Yes! Your voice matters.
Your feedback is used by Dalhousie to:
- Help instructors improve their teaching via constructive criticism.
- Assist some of your TAs, for whom you may have the opportunity to provide feedback, to improve their teaching as they begin their careers.
- Act as reference for the promotion and tenure of instructors and staff – Your feedback is placed in an instructor’s file and used when it is time to apply for promotions.
- Provide evidence of teaching accomplishments for Teaching Awards to TAs and to instructors that the university offers.
- Develop better, perhaps new, educational programs and courses throughout the university.
Guidelines to Students on Providing Constructive Feedback [PDF - 131 kB]
When do I do the SLEQ?
You may complete the SLEQ anytime in the last two weeks of your class once access to the site is provided. An email will be sent through the Dalhousie email system containing a link to the BLUE system and a link to the form will become available in Brightspace under the SLEQ link on the main page. After the initial invitation, at least 3 reminders will be sent to non-respondents.
Shorter courses are evaluated after 80% of the course is completed. The forms are open for a maximum of 2 weeks and minimum of 2 days.
Please refer to the important dates on the SLEQ Student page for details.
How do I complete the SLEQ?
To complete your SLEQs you can click in the emails you receive for your courses.
You can also access them via Brightspace through the SLEQ link in the menu at the top of the screen.
Proceed to Brightspace to fill out my form! (Login required)
How to providing constructive feedback
Student Quick Guide
Student quick guide [PDF - 397 kB]