Course Opinion Poll

The course opinion poll is a key tool for student assessment of teaching on a university-wide level. The opinion poll provides each student with the opportunity to provide feedback to teachers and their superiors regarding courses he/she was enrolled in in a given semester.

In case of questions, please contact the personnel of the Strategy Office of the MU Rector's Office at pruzkumy@muni.cz.

The course opinion poll is open to all students with active studies; a student may complete a poll for each of his/her active studies. A student who has interrupted or completed his/her studies and who is not participating in any course in a given semester is not allowed to participate in the poll. See list of courses not included in the course opinion poll (Czech only).

The course opinion poll is anonymized. All of its components are filled out entirely within the authenticated part of the MU Information System. The respondent's identity, i.e. his/her name, personal identification number or other personal information, is not disclosed to anyone at any time.

The poll may be accessed using the following path:

The course opinion poll opens following the end of instruction. Responses are collected prior to the end of the autumn or spring semester. The exact dates may be found in the application itself.

Answers may be changed and verbal comments edited at any point during this period of time.

The course opinion poll should only be filled out following the completion of an entire course (including any form of course completion requirement including the allocation of credits, taking of examinations, etc.) so that a student's experience with that course (and teacher) is complete and his/her answers are unbiased.

In order to sufficiently fill out the course opinion poll, you must complete at least half of your courses or at least ten courses enrolled in the current period. In order for a course to be considered complete,, you must answer all of the mandatory questions for at least one course–teacher or seminar group–tutor combination.

The teachers will always receive all saved responses, regardless of whether individual students have filled out sufficiently the course opinion poll as a whole.

In case of multiple active studies, all courses enrolled in all studies are considered in order to evaluate whether your course opinion poll is filled out sufficiently. A course enrolled simultaneously in more than one instance of active studies is only counted once.

Beginning with the autumn 2016 semester, the course opinion poll consists of 6 questions. Since autumn 2023 one new question was added, since autumn 2024 one question was deleted, i.e. still a total of 6 questions.

The first question focuses on the course as a coherent unit within a given semester, i.e. including any seminar groups taking place within the framework of such a course. Only one answer is thus required, regardless of how many teachers are actually associated with such a course. Answer to this question is saved for the entire course (i.e. all course–teacher and seminar group–tutor combinations) regardless of which course teacher or tutor the question was answered for.

1. The course is of educational value to me; it enriches me. – The question requires students to provide an answer on a scale from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree" with a given statement; if necessary, students may provide "no answer".

Four additional questions are associated with a particular course teacher or seminar group tutor. These questions are answered individually for each teacher. Answers indicate student opinion of each statement, expressed on a scale from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree"; if necessary, students may provide "no answer".

2. The teacher’s presentation of the subject matter was always clearly intelligible.
3. The teacher was always well prepared for class.
4. The teacher provided clear information regarding the knowledge and skills that will be evaluated.
5. The teacher always communicated with and treated students with respect.

The final question is associated with a particular course teacher or seminar group tutor. This question is optional. Students may provide the teacher with comprehensive feedback, including critical comments as well as a positive evaluation of his/her work.

6. In your opinion, what does the teacher excel in? What do you value most in their course or in their approach to teaching? Do you have any recommendations regarding the teacher's lessons or approach to teaching? – The answer provided in the form of a written commentary.

Each question is accompanied by a description (contextual commentary) designed to provide students with a clear and unambiguous understanding of the question in order to strengthen the validity of their responses. As these descriptions are designed to cover a broad range of different situations in various courses at individual faculties, the commentaries are quite long so they are hidden and may be displayed by clicking a button Display additional information. The last hide/display setting is used on accessing an intermittently closed course opinion poll again.

Faculties may include specific questions in the course opinion poll. Faculty-specific questions are mandatory. They are marked with the faculty abbreviation and faculty-specific question sequence number in the course opinion poll form. Faculty-specific questions are only associated with courses taught at a faculty which has opted to include its own questions in the course opinion poll. Faculties making use of this option currently include the MU Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Social Studies, Faculty of Informatics and Faculty of Sports Studies.

Mandatory questions for each combination (course–teacher or seminar–instructor) include the first course-related question, four questions (2–5) focusing on an individual teacher and all faculty-specific questions. Question 6 is optional.

In case you are unable to rate a statement on a scale from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree", you may select "no answer".

A personalized list of courses and teachers is generated automatically from the Course Catalogue on the basis of courses enrolled in a given period with the exception of courses recognized from other studies or courses excluded from the poll entirely (list of courses excluded from the course opinion poll [Czech only]).

In case of multiple active studies, all courses enrolled in all studies are considered in order to evaluate whether your course opinion poll is filled out sufficiently. A course enrolled simultaneously in more than one instance of active studies is only counted once.

A list of teachers associated with a given course is generated automatically from Course Catalogue. It is possible that such a list may include persons who did not teach the course you attended. In case your list of courses and teachers includes a teacher who has not taught you, please do not respond so that your answers do not distort the outcome. In order for a course to be considered complete, you must answer all of the mandatory questions for at least one course–teacher or seminar group–tutor combination.

Answers should always be associated with a specific teacher in case he/she is designated as a lecturer. Answers may also be provided for each seminar group you are enrolled in, separately for each seminar tutor. In case a seminar group you are enrolled in is not associated with a teacher, the seminar group will be displayed without one. If there are no seminar groups established for the course, then those identified as seminar tutors will be offered to all students in the course for evaluation in the survey.

In case no suitable teacher is found using the above described method, the course will be displayed with no teacher listed. However, a full list of questions will still be displayed, including questions focusing on the course teacher. If you wish to answer these questions, please fill in the name of the teacher you are evaluating in a written comment in question No. 6.

Teachers will not be associated with a course in case they are listed as an alternate examiners, seminar tutors or assistants.

The list of courses and teachers is generated automatically from the Course Catalogue on the basis of courses enrolled by a student in a given period. In case no teacher or tutor is listed in the Course Catalogue, the course opinion poll will display a course with no teacher assigned.

However, a full list of questions will still be displayed, including questions focusing on the course teacher. If you wish to answer these questions, please fill in the name of the teacher you are evaluating in a written comment in question No. 6. In order to be assessed correctly, comments must be associated with a specific teacher.

In case your list of courses and teachers includes a teacher who has not taught you, please do not respond so that your answers do not distort the outcome. Likewise, in case your list includes a course or seminar group you have not attended, please leave these items blank. You are not required to evaluate all courses, neither all combinations course–teacher or seminar group–tutor. For more information see When is my course opinion poll filled out sufficiently?. A course enrolled in more than one instance of active studies is considered sufficiently filled out once it has been completed in one of these studies.

A student who fails to fill out the poll sufficiently and who has been enrolled in a degree programme for more than one semester will not be granted access to course opinion poll outcomes, i.e. he/she will not be able to access individual course results. However, a student enrolled in his/her studies for a period shorter than one semester may access existing poll statistics without limitations.

Masaryk University actively encourages students to complete the course opinion poll simply because it is an invaluable university-wide tool for collecting feedback on its activities. By sharing your opinions, you are contributing answers to an expanding body of responses. The more students complete the poll, the more accurately the poll findings portray reality and the more meaningful the final results tend to be. Course opinion poll answers are subsequently analysed by experts responsible for improving the quality of teaching at MU. E-mails reminding students to take part may thus not be switched off.

Course opinion poll results will be made available only after the poll closes. The publication of responses prior to that time could have an undesirable influence on poll results.

Responses are only published in case all mandatory questions for a given course have been answered by at least 10 % of all enrolled students and no less than five students in total. Students who sufficiently completed the course option poll (see When is my course opinion poll filled out sufficiently?), may view the results of all sufficiently filled out courses at MU.

Path to the Course Opinion Poll results application for student:

When entering the Course Opinion Poll results application, the student has preselected by default the subjects that he/she assessed in the given semester and that he/she is registered/enrolled in in the selected semester.

Questions 1 to 5 required students to provide an answer on a scale from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree" with a given statement; if necessary, students were also given the option to provide "no answer". These answers are displayed in an interactive graph with response rates.

The interactive graph allows users to click on an item in order to hide/show the proportion of a selected category in the graph. Placing your cursor on individual response categories will display a percentage; pointing to the question itself will display the full question text (hidden in the case of small screens).

Columns next to the graph indicate the number of students who provided answers to a question relevant to a specific course (question 1) or teacher (questions 2 to 5), mean course and teacher score at a given faculty and mean selected course and teacher score.

All written comments by means of which the students were enabled to elaborate their replies are only displayed to the relevant teachers and their superiors (for example course supervisor has the right to read written comments related to course teachers; course lecturer has the right for comments related to seminar tutors and other lecturers as well). The MU Faculty of Social Studies is the only exception to this rule; the faculty has decided to display all written responses anonymously to teachers and students alike.

Due to their specific nature, CORE courses are assessed using a special set of questions. Their results are displayed similarly with interactive graphs, frequency tables for multiple-choice questions, or a list of written comments.

Teachers have the opportunity to respond to course opinion poll results by including their comments in a text box located below the results of a given course. Any such responses will appear alongside the results for a given course and teacher.

Due to their specific nature, CORE courses are assessed using a special set of questions aimed at, among other things, whether the course expanded knowledge within/beyond the scope of the field of study, whether it motivated the enrollment of other courses that broaden the overview, what teaching methods were used, and what teaching materials were provided.