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Course Analysis – Universität Innsbruck

Course analysis

The regular, anonymous survey of students as part of the course analysis (LVA) is a central instrument of quality assurance.

Compulsory LVA

Every academic year, all courses offered by eight faculties are subject to mandatory evaluation. Your course is automatically marked for evaluation.

Mandatory evaluation for the academic year 2024/25

Faculties

  • Faculty of Biology
  • Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
  • Faculty of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Faculty of Teacher Education
  • Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics
  • Faculty of Catholic Theology
  • Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies
  • Faculty of Philosophy and History

Courses

  • All courses assigned to the Vice-Rectorate for Teaching and Students
  • Continuing Education
  • Language Centre

The following table shows the time periods in which those courses are evaluated that are carried out in "Online by mail" mode. The date is preset for your course in VIS:online. It is based on the last date on which the course was held (example: last date of the course on 27 January --> course in January). If you wish to change the preset date, please refer to Instructions for changing the date.

Dates for the course analysis WS 2024/25
MonatTerminänderung bisEvaluierungszeitpunkt in der Woche vom
October 202414.10.202421.10.2024
November 202411.11.202418.11.2024
December 202402.12.202409.12.2024
January 202513.01.202520.01.2025
February 202510.02.202517.02.2025

For "Online by e-mail", you should check the preset date for your evaluation and adjust it if necessary.

Notes on scheduling
The course should take place in the last third of the course period. This period is sufficient for the students to have formed an opinion about the course to be evaluated. You will also have enough time to discuss the results with the students during the course and make any necessary improvements. In the case of block courses and excursions, lecturers should determine the best time for the course on an individual basis.

For the courses of the mandatory full evaluation, the month of the last course date is always saved as the default value for the evaluation date. If the course takes place at an earlier date, the evaluation date can be adjusted to an earlier month. The change must be made by the 15th of the month in which the evaluation is to take place. Shifting the evaluation window to a date after the last registered course date is possible in exceptional cases, please contact the Office for Quality Assurance in Teaching.

Please refer to Instructionsor the video on changing course dates.

Online by email" is automatically set as the form of evaluation for the compulsory course. You can change this yourself with just a few mouse clicks. The instructions by video and aspdf document with the individual work steps should help you with this.

Whether in the lecture theatre on site or in the virtual classroom: online in presence works everywhere. We have provided you with an implementation at Quick guide for download.

Once the evaluation has been completed (in the case of evaluation by email after the end of the evaluation period, in the "online in presence" mode the next day), the teachers receive the report by email. At the end of each semester, the results reports are also made available to the teachers in VIS:online. In addition to the lecturers, the relevant deans of studies and the Office for Quality Assurance in Teaching have access to the data. Download instructions

Teachers can also publish the reports in LFU:online (visible to all members of the university). In the interests of transparency and appreciation of the feedback, the Vice-Rector for Teaching and Students expressly recommends the presentation of the results. Download instructions

All course instructors receive a report in PDF format for their evaluated courses once the course analysis has been completed. If the evaluation has been approved for publication by the lecturers, these reports can also be viewed by all students in the LFU:online course catalogue. The first part of the evaluation contains a quick overview of the summarised global values for selected question groups. They are presented as mean values.

Darstellung Globalwert im LVA-Bericht

The second part contains information on the number of survey participants for each scale question and a histogram showing the relative frequency of responses, the arithmetic mean, the median, the standard deviation and - if applicable - the abstentions. The legend at the beginning of the report also explains this graphically.

Darstellung Legende Skalafragen LVA-Bericht

The third part of the report contains profile lines, which on the one hand provide a good overview of the averaged results of all scale questions and on the other hand enable a direct comparison with the summarised overall results of the University of Innsbruck. The course leaders also receive all written comments from the students on the open questions.

The sample report for course instructors can be found here: Document

Calculations and presentation of the arithmetic mean, median and standard deviation can be found here: Document

In "My teaching", the application for the LVA is user-orientated and relatively easy to use. Nevertheless, you may need help or additional information.

You are very welcome to contact the QA team!

Elisabeth Otasek

+43 512 507- 20325
LV-Analyse@uibk.ac.at

Marianne Prast, MSc

+43 512 507- 20321
LV-Analyse@uibk.ac.at

Voluntary LVA

For voluntary evaluation, you must actively register your teaching for the course.

Voluntary evaluation for the academic year 2024/25

Faculties

  • Faculty of Architecture
  • Faculty of Business Administration
  • Faculty of Educational Sciences
  • Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science
  • Faculty of social and Political Sciences
  • Faculty of Technical Sciences
  • Faculty of Economics and Statistics
  • Faculty of Law

Studies

  • MA Gender, Culture and social Change (930 001-019)
  • MA Sustainable Regional and Destination Development (146 448-499)
  • BA Business, Health and Sports Tourism (146 400-447)

The date is preset for your course in VIS:online. It is based on the last date on which the course was held (example: last date of the course on 27 January --> course in January). If you want to change the preset date, please follow the instructions for changing the date. If you wish to change the date entered, please refer to Instructions for changing the date.

Dates for the course analysis WS 2024/25
MonatTerminänderung bisEvaluierungszeitpunkt in der Woche vom
October 202414.10.202421.10.2024
November 202411.11.202418.11.2024
December 202402.12.202409.12.2024
January 202513.01.202520.01.2025
February 202510.02.202517.02.2025

The instructions for creating and running the LVA for your course can be found below as a video file. If you require detailed instructions for the individual steps, please visit pdf-document for download.

Whether in the lecture theatre on site or in the virtual classroom: online in presence works everywhere. We have provided you with an implementation at Quick guide for download.

With "Online per Mail", you set the date for your evaluation yourself. If you need to change the date, please refer to Instructions or the video on changing course dates.

Notes on scheduling
The course should take place in the last third of the course period. This period is sufficient for the students to have formed an opinion about the course to be evaluated. You will also have enough time to discuss the results with the students during the course and make any necessary improvements. In the case of block courses and excursions, lecturers should determine the best time for the course on an individual basis.

Once the evaluation has been completed (in the case of evaluation by email after the end of the evaluation period, in the "online in presence" mode the next day), the teachers receive the report by email. At the end of each semester, the results reports are also made available to the teachers in VIS:online. In addition to the lecturers, the relevant deans of studies and the Office for Quality Assurance in Teaching have access to the data. Download instructions

Teachers can also publish the reports in LFU:online (visible to all members of the university). In the interests of transparency and appreciation of the feedback, the Vice-Rector for Teaching and Students expressly recommends the presentation of the results. Download instructions

All course instructors receive a report in PDF format for their evaluated courses once the course analysis has been completed. If the evaluation has been approved for publication by the lecturers, these reports can also be viewed by all students in the LFU:online course catalogue. The first part of the evaluation contains a quick overview of the summarised global values for selected question groups. They are presented as mean values.

Darstellung Globalwert im LVA-Bericht

The second part contains information on the number of survey participants for each scale question and a histogram showing the relative frequency of responses, the arithmetic mean, the median, the standard deviation and - if applicable - the abstentions. The legend at the beginning of the report also explains this graphically.

Darstellung Legende Skalafragen LVA-Bericht

The third part of the report contains profile lines, which on the one hand provide a good overview of the averaged results of all scale questions and on the other hand enable a direct comparison with the summarised overall results of the University of Innsbruck. The course leaders also receive all written comments from the students on the open questions.

The sample report for course instructors can be found here: Document

Calculations and presentation of the arithmetic mean, median and standard deviation can be found here: Document

In "My teaching", the application for the LVA is user-orientated and relatively easy to use. Nevertheless, you may need help or additional information.

You are very welcome to contact the QA team!

Elisabeth Otasek

+43 512 507- 20325
LV-Analyse@uibk.ac.at

Marianne Prast, MSc

+43 512 507- 20321
LV-Analyse@uibk.ac.at

Forms of course analysis

Advantages

  • combines the advantages of online and paper evaluations
  • guarantees a high response rate
  • high data quality
  • optimises data protection
  • Time- and cost-efficient implementation
  • survey results are available quickly (the results of the LVA are analysed one day after implementation)
  • conserves resources and protects the environment, paper and postage costs are saved, personnel costs are reduced

The lecturer receives the QR code or direct link to the survey by email. During the course, the lecturer publishes the code or link and invites students to take part in the survey.

Students scan the QR code with their smartphone or tablet or enter the direct link to the questionnaire on their laptop. The evaluation of the relevant course starts automatically on the end device.

Students answer the questions during the course in the lecture theatre or online at home. The evaluation takes approx. 3-5 minutes. The lecturers finish the evaluation after approx. 10-15 minutes.

The lecturer determines the time of the survey in LFU:online. The student will receive the direct link to the survey by email on time.

The student clicks on the direct link to the questionnaire. The evaluation of the relevant course starts automatically on the end device.

The student gives feedback independent of time and place.
The evaluation takes approx. 3-5 minutes.

The teacher receives the paper questionnaires. During the course, the teacher distributes the paper questionnaires to students and invites them to take part in the survey.

The students fill out the questionnaire during the course in the lecture theatre.

The lecturer collects the questionnaires and sends them to the Office for Quality Assurance in Teaching.

Only possible in exceptional cases (e.g. excursions).

Please contact
lv-analyse@uibk.ac.at

FAQ

This evaluation serves both students and lecturers to ensure quality and to further improve the courses on offer. It should serve as a starting point for dialogue between you and your students. The aim is to jointly identify potential for improvement and opportunities for further development of the relevant course. We therefore ask you not only to make the results reports available to members of the university, but also to present them to your students during the course and discuss them with them. We also recommend an exchange with your colleagues at your institute/faculty. In this way, the course contributes to the promotion of a feedback culture and continuously raises awareness of quality in teaching.

The evaluation of courses is legally defined in the University Act and in the statutes of the University of Innsbruck.

Feedback from students can contribute significantly to the quality assurance of the teaching programme. The LVA is also an important tool for self-reflection on teaching activities. The results can help you to recognise suitable university didactic further training opportunities for you in order to continuously improve or expand your teaching skills.

The dialogue with students about the strengths and weaknesses of the course can also help to develop desirable and realistic possibilities for improving the course. In particular, feedback in your own words in the free text fields can provide valuable information for future course planning. In the interests of a transparent quality culture, most lecturers decide to publish the course results so that students can view them in the LFU:online course catalogue.

Individual results of the course are not discussed in the Office for Quality Assurance in Teaching, but by the deans of studies with the lecturers concerned. These discussions can, for example, lead to recommendations for further training in higher education didactics or curricular improvements as part of programme development.

Monitoring of results
Results monitoring is a quality assurance tool for mandatory full evaluation. It is currently being revised. Information on the revised results monitoring will be published on this page as soon as it is released.

Some critics see the LVA as a centrally used instrument to control the "performance and products" of teaching. At the University of Innsbruck, the LVA is not a centralised control instrument with which the use of certain teaching and learning formats or the achievement of a learning outcome is to be monitored across the board. The LVA is intended to initiate a dialogue between you and your students as well as with your colleagues, in which you - in the common interest - identify and implement potential for improvement and further development for the course in question.

The quantitative evaluation procedure is used as a standard procedure at a large institution such as the University of Innsbruck. It enables students to provide structured, anonymous feedback on the course in a short space of time. In addition, the quantification supports the comparability of results over time as well as between course types and lecturers.

However, in order to be able to take individual feedback from students into account, open free text fields were included in the questionnaire. In particular, the information in your own words in the free text fields can provide valuable information for your course planning. At the same time, you can use the standardised information to compare the development of your results over time and discuss them with colleagues in your department.

The LVA can be completed online quite easily in around 5 minutes. Online evaluation also enables secure and personalised access to the survey. Furthermore, the data quality of online surveys is significantly higher and the evaluation is quick and uncomplicated. The online survey is therefore preferable to the previous printed questionnaires for organisational, ecological and data protection reasons. In particular, the feedback from students in the free text fields can now be used much better digitally for the qualitative assessment of the teaching programme.

The evaluation can be activated quickly and easily in VIS:online in the area "Personal data -> "My teaching" -> menu item "Teaching performance" -> tab "Course analysis".

Eight faculties are subject to a mandatory full evaluation each academic year, while the courses of the remaining eight faculties can be evaluated voluntarily at any time. In the case of a mandatory evaluation, only the participant lists in the VIS need to be checked for completeness and the evaluation period adjusted if necessary.

To set up or change your course, please follow the instructions and videos above.

Every academic year, all courses at eight faculties are subject to mandatory evaluation. This means that the mandatory full survey takes place at your faculty every two years. The advantages of this procedure are that all courses in a faculty are regularly evaluated through the biennial full survey and any evaluation fatigue among students (and lecturers) is reduced.

In the other semesters, lecturers from the other faculties have the opportunity to take part in the course on a voluntary basis.

You can find out whether your faculty is subject to mandatory or voluntary evaluation in the list below.

Mandatory evaluation
for the academic year 2023/24

Faculties

  • Faculty of Architecture
  • Business Administration
  • Educational Sciences
  • Psychology and Sports Sciences
  • social and Political Sciences
  • Technical Sciences
  • Economics and Statistics
  • Law

Studies

  • MA Gender, Culture and social Change (930 001-019)
  • MA Sustainable Regional and Destination Development (146 448-499)
  • BA Business, Health and Sports Tourism (146 400-447)

Voluntary full evaluation
Academic year 2023/24

Faculties

  • Biology
  • Chemistry and Pharmacy
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Teacher Education
  • Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics
  • Faculty of Catholic Theology
  • Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies
  • Faculty of Philosophy and History

At the beginning of the semester, you will receive information by email from the Office for Quality Assurance in Teaching. You can always find the latest information on the website LVA Lecturers - University of Innsbruck.

We ask you to adapt the course date to your course:

For the courses of the mandatory full evaluation, the month of the last course date is always saved as the default value for the evaluation date. If the course takes place at an earlier date, the evaluation date can be adjusted to an earlier month. The change must be made by the 15th of the month in which the evaluation is to take place. In exceptional cases, it is possible to postpone the evaluation window to a date after the last registered course date; please contact the Office for Quality Assurance in Teaching.

Please also refer to the instructions above or the video on changing course dates.

Dates for the course analysis WS 2023/24
MonatTerminänderung bisEvaluierungszeitpunkt in der Woche vom
October 202316.10.202323.10.2023
November 202313.11.202320.11.2023
December 202304.12.202411.12.2023
January 202415.01.202422.01.2024
February 202419.02.202426.02.2024

The course should take place in the last third of the course period. This period is sufficient for the students to have formed an opinion about the course to be evaluated. You will also have enough time to discuss the results with the students during the course and make any necessary improvements. In the case of block courses and excursions, the lecturers should determine the best time for the course individually.

Please also refer to the instructions above or the video on changing course dates.

In exceptional cases, the LVA can be reopened at a later date. All previous feedback will of course be retained, but additional feedback can be generated by sending a reminder email within seven days if the original evaluation period was not well chosen. Please contact the Office for Quality Assurance in Teaching.

No, only the lecturers themselves can change the dates or the form of the course in their personal VIS account under "My teaching". At the beginning of each semester, all lecturers in the faculties that are subject to mandatory evaluation receive information about this.

The online questionnaire is open for 14 days from receipt of the email and can only be completed once. If too few responses are generated within these two weeks, a reminder email is automatically sent to all students who have not yet participated by this time and the survey is extended for a further seven days.

In the case of online in presence, you, as the lecturer, close the evaluation after the survey has been completed.

In exceptional cases (e.g. excursions), an evaluation in paper form may also be useful. In general, however, the online survey is preferable for organisational, ecological and data protection reasons. Please contact the Office for Quality Assurance in Teaching for advice.

If the e-mail with the link to the implementation is not in your inbox, please contact the Office for Quality Assurance in Teaching.

A specially developed questionnaire is used to evaluate a course with several lecturers. The report is sent to all teachers involved after the evaluation has been completed.

Communication between lecturers and students is essential. We can only achieve a good response rate that enables a representative and substantial assessment of the course results if the importance of the course for the lecturers and also the students is communicated explicitly and repeatedly. It has also proved successful in the online format to encourage completion of the course during the course on one of the last course dates so that sufficient feedback can be collected.

Possibilities:

  • Show students that you take their feedback seriously.
  • Announce the publication of the results in LFU:online.
  • Emphasise the dialogue with the students by discussing the results in one of the subsequent courses.
  • Show students that you are interested in the further development and improvement of your teaching.
  • Make sure that your students have enough time to complete the questionnaire.

Online by email:
If the course does not generate enough responses within a week, an automatic reminder email will be sent to all students who have not yet taken part. The survey will be extended by a further week.

The automated report generation for the survey is only started if the survey has been completed by at least three people.

Within the time frame of the course, you can freely choose the time of the course. Popular times are the beginning and end of the course.

Online in presence
As the beginning or end of a course is the best time for most lecturers to hold it, it can happen in rare cases that the WLAN is overloaded. If you notice that it takes too long to access the evaluation, we recommend that you start the course and continue the evaluation in the middle (or at a later time) of the course.

On average, it takes your students about 5 minutes to complete the questionnaire.

Evaluation during the course
In total, you should allow approx. 10-15 minutes for the evaluation - with the introduction and closing of the course by you, the insertion of the link/code into the end device and the completion of the questionnaire by your students. Please make sure that the students have enough time during the course to take part in the evaluation.

Since the beginning or end of a course is the best time for most lecturers to carry out the evaluation, it can happen in rare cases that the WLAN is overloaded. If you notice that it takes too long to access the evaluation, we recommend that you start the course and continue the evaluation in the middle (or at a later time) of the course.

In order to participate in the course online in presence and online by e-mail, your students need an internet-enabled device.

Online in presence
Students need an internet-enabled mobile device (smartphone, tablet or laptop) during the course. You may need to point this out to your students in one of the previous lessons.

Yes, participation in the course is not compulsory for students at the University of Innsbruck.

If you have switched your course analysis to "online in presence" but are not (or cannot) carry it out, this course will automatically be processed as an "online by mail" evaluation. In the winter semester this evaluation takes place in February and in the summer semester in September.

All surveys as well as the evaluations and analyses of the Office for Quality Assurance in Teaching are carried out in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. All feedback is anonymised; the EvaSys software used (https://evasys.de/) guarantees the possibility of anonymous surveys.

All online surveys of the Office for Quality Assurance in Teaching, to which students are invited by email, are carried out anonymously using an automatically generated code that authorises the submission of only one response. The code that students receive by email with the invitation enables secure and personalised access to the survey. There is no connection between the access code and the student's survey data.

Of course, we also guarantee the anonymous processing of the collected data for surveys using the "online in presence" mode or for "paper surveys".

It would only be theoretically possible to identify a specific person or their response by selecting certain combinations of characteristics (e.g. age, gender, semester, degree programme, etc.) in the raw data of the database, which is not accessible to either the lecturers or the administrators. The University of Innsbruck assures you that this option will not be used.

No. All students are assigned a personalised TAN, which can only be used once. This ensures that only one re-registration can be made per person.

Teachers can only view their own course results. The publication of the results for each course in LFU:online, which is visible to all members of the university, is used by the majority of lecturers.

In addition, the course results are regularly analysed quantitatively and qualitatively and sent to the responsible dean of studies for quality assurance purposes.

The course analysis serves the sole purpose of quality assurance and improvement of teaching. Students systematically provide feedback on the course they have attended via the LVA. Teachers reflect on the student perspective and, if necessary, publish the results or discuss them with the students of the course.

In addition to lecturers, the Dean of Studies receives the feedback in aggregated form and seeks dialogue with the lecturer, at least in the case of critical results (see monitoring of results). The Rectorate receives aggregated reports from the course data records; the higher the hierarchical level, the more aggregated the data usually is.

The raw data and the results reports are deleted after 15 years; the data is stored on a secure server (ORACLE database).

Data or results are never passed on to external parties by central units.

Further information on data protection can be found here: https://www.uibk.ac.at/datenschutz/

The LVA regularly evaluates all courses at the university. The questionnaire used collects fundamental aspects of teaching quality: quantitative and qualitative feedback on the professional competence of the lecturers, the teaching of the subject matter, the content, structure and scope of the course, the framework conditions as well as student behaviour and student interest. Furthermore, general information from the participating students is also recorded. A separate questionnaire is used for courses with several lecturers; the questionnaire is available to students in German and English.

The questionnaire used for the course was developed in 2019/20 by the working group "Content redesign of the course" (participants: QS Teaching, Vice-Rector Teaching & Students, Senate Chair, Dean of Studies representative, ÖH Chair representative, questionnaire survey expert and BR 1 representative) and approved by the Rectorate. In addition to discussing the content of the questionnaire, a second working group dealt with the technical implementation.

Standardisation has the advantage that you can compare your results both with your own previous results and in dialogue with the results of other teachers within your institute or department. The profile lines offer you a good overview of the averaged results of all scale questions and enable a direct comparison with the summarised overall results of the University of Innsbruck.

The feedback from the courses is regularly analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively and used to ensure and further improve the quality of the course. The course reports are made available to the lecturers and the respective dean of studies for each course. Most lecturers also decide to publish the course results in LFU:online and thus make them accessible to students.

Once the evaluation has been completed, all course instructors will receive the report in pdf format by email:

  • Online in presence: the next day
  • Online by email: after the end of the evaluation period
  • Paper evaluation: after consultation with the Office for Quality Assurance in Teaching

At the end of each semester, the results reports are also made available to the lecturers in VIS:online.

Most lecturers decide to publish the course results in the interests of a transparent quality culture. These can then be viewed by students in the LFU:online course catalogue.

The dialogue with the students is a central element of the course. Only in dialogue between teachers and students can individual aspects be deepened or ambiguities discussed. Through dialogue, you signal that you take student feedback seriously and that feedback can also be effective. This communication has a positive effect on your course response rate.

If you are unable to report the results back to the students because the results are only available after the course, we recommend that you publish the reports in LFU:online and alert your students by email.

Please follow the instructions above for publishing the results.

The Office for Quality Assurance in Teaching does not censor student feedback in the free text fields. The decision as to when a comment is considered offensive is subjective. Censorship could therefore hold back comments that are not considered offensive at all by the lecturers concerned.

If you are confronted with discriminatory, sexist or grossly offensive feedback, please contact your Dean of Studies or the Quality Assurance Office. Criminal or disciplinary consequences for students cannot be drawn due to the anonymity of the feedback.

Unobjective criticism is not desirable, but will occur in individual cases. If you are confronted with unobjective criticism, you have the opportunity to discuss this with the Dean of Studies or the Quality Assurance Office. We also recommend that you address this in your course: what does good feedback to improve teaching look like and what feedback is inappropriate?

You have not received an answer to your questions?

Please contact the Office for Quality Assurance in Teaching:
LV-Analyse@uibk.ac.at

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