Module Feedback Questionnaires
The University provides two opportunities for students to give feedback on modules each semester:
- Pulse Module Survey in Week 4
- End of Module Questionnaire at the end of each semester (or academic year for year-long modules).
Student feedback is essential in helping us enhance teaching and improve the overall student experience.
Feedback is reviewed by staff in Schools and Departments, including Module Coordinators, Directors of Teaching, and Directors of Postgraduate Studies (Taught). It may also be accessed by the Proctor's Office and the Education and Student Experience team.
Module Coordinators carefully consider all constructive feedback, share a summary of key themes with students, and explain any actions being taken where appropriate.
Tasks relating to module feedback questionnaires, including viewing reports, can be accessed on the Blue dashboard. The dashboard can also be accessed via Moodle.
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Semester 1
Directors of Teaching / Directors of Postgraduate Studies (Taught)
adding questions to questionnaires- Open: Monday 20 October 2025
- Close: Friday 7 November 2025
Students
completing questionnaires- Open: Monday 17 November 2025
- Close: Friday 5 December 2025
Module Coordinators
closing the feedback loop- Open: Monday 8 December 2025
- Close: Friday, 23 January 2026
Semester 2
Directors of Teaching / Directors of Postgraduate Studies (Taught)
adding questions to questionnairesPulse Module Survey
- Open: Monday 2 February 2026
- Close: Friday 13 February 2026
End of Module Questionnaire
- Open: Monday 16 March 2026
- Close: Friday 3 April 2026
Students
completing questionnairesPulse Module Survey
- Open: Monday 16 February 2026
- Close: Friday 20 February 2026
End of Module Questionnaire
- Open: Monday 13 April 2026
- Close: Friday 1 May 2026
Module Coordinators
closing the feedback loopPulse Module Survey
- Open: Monday 23 February 2026
- Close: Friday 27 February 2026
End of Module Questionnaire
- Open: Monday 4 May 2026
- Close: Friday 19 June 2026
Summer (PGT dissertations)
Directors of Teaching / Directors of Postgraduate Studies (Taught)
adding questions to questionnaires- Open: Monday 29 June 2026
- Close: Friday 17 July 2026
Students
completing questionnaires- Open: Monday 27 July 2026
- Close: Friday 14 August 2026
Module Coordinators
closing the feedback loop- Open: Monday 17 August 2026
- Close: Friday, 25 September 2026
Note: If students do not receive a response closing the feedback loop, they are advised to follow this up with Module Coordinators.
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Tasks in Blue are driven by staff roles in MMS. Ownership of tasks and access are as follows:
Question personalisation (QP)
Add additional questions to questionnaires
Access: Directors of Teaching and Directors of Postgraduate Studies (Taught)Survey Fillout (FO)
Complete surveys
Access: StudentsSubject management (SM)
View response rates for module(s), see invitees for each module, and access a QR code linking to the questionnaire
Access: Module Coordinators, Lecturers and tutorsResponse rate monitoring (RRM)
View aggregate data at module, School, Department, and University levels, based on assigned access in MMS. Response rates are available when questionnaires open until they close.
Access: Administrators, Module Coordinators, Lecturers and tutors, Directors of Teaching, Directors of Postgraduate Studies (Taught), Heads of School, Heads of Department, Members of the Proctor's Office.Note: Email reminders are not sent for this task. Staff with access can view this information on their Blue dashboard.
Reports (RV)
View reports generated for a module, School, Department, or University. Access is as follows:
- Module level quantitative reports: Lecturers and tutors
- Module level quantitative and qualitative reports: Module Coordinators, Directors of Teaching, Directors of Postgraduate Studies (Taught), Members of the Proctor's Office
- School and Departmental level quantitative reports: Administrators, Directors of Teaching, Directors of Postgraduate Studies (Taught), Heads of School, Heads of Department, Members of the Proctor's Office
- University level quantitative reports: Members of the Proctor's Office
If you think you have received a notification in error, or did not receive a notification that you should have, please check your staff roles in MMS are up-to-date in the first instance. Note that any changes in MMS will be reflected in Blue overnight after the system refresh.
If there is still an issue, please contact us.
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Module Feedback Questionnaires have been designed in consultation with staff and students. Links to the core and optional questions are available below. It is not possible to amend or delete any of the core questions. These questions are required by the University to be able to compare data across Schools.
Schools and Departments can select up to four additional questions from the list of questions in Blue. Questions can be applied to all modules across the School, Department, group of modules or individual modules.
End of module questions
- Standard core questions
- Dissertation-type core questions
- Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) core questions
- Additional questions (optional)
Pulse Module Survey questions
- Core module questions
- Additional questions (optional)
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Please refer to the user guides for tasks related to module feedback questionnaires, organised by user role.
Some content in these guides may not meet accessibility standards. If you require the information in an alternative format, please contact mfqsupport@st-andrews.ac.uk.
Directors of Teaching and Directors of Postgraduate Studies (Taught)
- Adding additional end of module questions (Word) or watch the video guide
- Institutional-level response rate monitoring (Word)
- Quantitative and qualitative reports at module level and quantitative reports at School and Department levels, see MFQ reports (Word) or watch the video guide
- View feedback provided by Module Coordinators
Module coordinators
- Response rates at modular level (Word)
- Closing the feedback loop (Word) or watch the video guide
- Quantitative and qualitative reports at module level, see MFQ reports (Word) or watch the video guide
Lecturers and tutors
- Quantitative reports at module level, see MFQ reports (Word) or watch the video guide
Heads of School, Heads of Department, Administrators
- Institutional-level response rate monitoring (Word)
- View feedback provided by Module Coordinators (available soon)
- Quantitative reports at School and Department levels, see MFQ reports (Word) or watch the video guide
Members of the Proctor's Office
- Institutional-level response rate monitoring (Word)
- View feedback provided by Module Coordinators (available soon)
- Quantitative and qualitative reports at module level and quantitative reports at School and Department levels, see MFQ reports (Word) or watch the video guide
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Student feedback from module feedback questionnaires is important for improving and enhancing the learning and teaching experience at St Andrews.
Listed below are some good practice tips that some Schools have used to improve their MFQ response rates:
- Setting some time aside during a lecture/tutorial to complete the questionnaire (often midway through the lecture/tutorial)
- Polite reminders to students in class and by email, indicating that you want as much feedback as possible to improve delivery of the module
- Give students some examples of improvements that have been made as a result of previous student feedback
- Showing appreciation to students for taking the time to complete MFQs and assuring them that their feedback is important and is acted upon
- Informing students of the response rates received to date and encourage those who haven't responded to do so
- Remind students that responses are anonymous
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Is student feedback anonymous?
In general, the analysis of data from Module Feedback Questionnaires is done on an anonymous basis. Whilst the system matches individual responses to limited student record data, the analytical reports within the system are produced and viewed using aggregated data, with no personal information displayed. These reports include analysis on protected characteristics, such as gender, disability (where that has been declared), or ethnicity, to understand if there is equality of opportunity and/or treatment. These reports of aggregated data will be available to Schools and senior academic roles on a need-to-know basis.
Students should be aware that reports are produced at a module level. While every effort will be made to protect your anonymity, please be aware that in a small class setting your responses may inadvertently reveal your identity, therefore care should be taken when responding to protect your identity.
Additional analysis may be done by the University’s Planning Unit which will involve connecting responses from the Module Feedback Questionnaires to student data from other systems. By necessity this will need the data not to be anonymised. This is strictly for the limited purpose of gaining greater understanding of the responses to Module Feedback Questionnaires, at a statistical level. Reports based on this data will made available only at an aggregated level. This is not an unusual process and is entirely lawful.
In exceptions, where staff or student safety has been identified as being at risk, and with authorisation from the Vice-Principal Education (Proctor) or their delegate, the administrators of the Module Feedback Questionnaire system are able to unmask the anonymity of free text comments to protect staff or student welfare.
Please note that Module Feedback Questionnaires are not intended to capture instances of bullying, harassment, discrimination, or violence, even if they occur during formal teaching. We have a zero-tolerance approach to any such behaviour, which is contrary to the values and ideals of our shared community, and should these behaviours arise the University urges members of our community to use our Report and Support tool.
The University has completed a Data Protection Impact Assessment for Module Feedback Questionnaires; this is available on request and will be kept under review.
Module feedback is important for the University and our students. To protect the integrity of this, we work hard to provide and protect privacy and confidentiality in responses, and data are only linked to respondents where necessary, and then for the specific purposes outlined.
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Any matters and information relating to module feedback questionnaires is usually communicated via School contacts. Schools are responsible for ensuring these contact details are up to date. Any updates to the contact list should be emailed to mfqsupport@st-andrews.ac.uk.
Art History
- Jo Fitchet: jb74@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Lynn Ayton: lcw10@st-andrews.ac.uk
Biology
- Sarah Maynard-Morris: slh28@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Biology Teaching Office: bioteach@st-andrews.ac.uk
Business School
- Economics
Undergraduate admin: econadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk
Postgraduate admin: bschoolpgt@st-andrews.ac.uk - Management
Undergraduate admin: manug@st-andrews.ac.uk
Management manager: bschoolopsmgr@st-andrews.ac.uk
Postgraduate admin: bschoolpgt@st-andrews.ac.uk
Chemistry
- Liz Harris: ek6@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Iona Hutchison: ilh@st-andrews.ac.uk
Classics
- Undergraduate admin: classug@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Postgraduate admin: classpgt@st-andrews.ac.uk
Computer Science
- Alex Bain: alb@st-andrews.ac.uk
- General office: admin-cs@st-andrews.ac.uk
Divinity
- Elizabeth O'Keeffe: ero4@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Kate Dove: kad20@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Natalie Mackie: nm222@st-andrews.ac.uk
Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Lesley-Anne Harrison: ees-teaching@st-andrews.ac.uk
- General office: earthsci@st-andrews.ac.uk
English
- Postgraduate admin: pgeng@st-andrews.ac.uk
- General office: english@st-andrews.ac.uk
Geography and Sustainable Development
- Natalie Connell: nsb@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Marie MacRae: mcm22@st-andrews.ac.uk
Graduate School
- Claire Brodie: clb26@st-andrews.ac.uk
- General office: gradschool@st-andrews.ac.uk
History
- General office: history@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Postgraduate admin: pghist@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Modern History: modhist@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Medieval history: medhist@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Dorothy Christie: dc71@st-andrews.ac.uk
International Education and Lifelong Learning Institute
- Steven Bartholomew: smb12@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Heather McKiggan-Fee: hcm@st-andrews.ac.uk
- General office: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk
International Relations
- Gillian Fleming: gaf3@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Gail Reid: gr20@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Sterling Yates: Sterling.yates@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Lynne MacMillan (S2): ld26@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Second year admin: ir2nd_sh@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Senior Teaching admin: irseniorteaching@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Postgraduate admin: irpg@st-andrews.ac.uk
- CSTPV: tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk
Mathematics and Statistics
- Niki Stalker: njs1@st-andrews.ac.uk
- General office: maths@st-andrews.ac.uk
Medicine
- Linda Kirkcaldy: lk1@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Dawn Winpenny: dw211@st-andrews.ac.uk
Modern Languages
- Brett Dodgson: bsd3@st-andrews.ac.uk
- General office: modlangs@st-andrews.ac.uk
Music
- Michael Ferguson: camusic@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Diane Lyons: del1@st-andrews.ac.uk
Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies
- Undergraduate email: ugpafsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Postgraduate email: pgpafs@st-andrews.ac.uk
Physics and Astronomy
- Linda Cousins: ljc21@st-andrews.ac.uk
- General office: physics@st-andrews.ac.uk
Psychology and Neuroscience
- Katrina Cruickshank: kac22@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Helen Sunderland: hes1@st-andrews.ac.uk
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The following documents provide support and further information on MFQs:
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This section provides answers to the most common questions we've been asked. If your query is not addressed here, please contact mfqsupport@st-andrews.ac.uk for assistance.
1. Why have (or haven't) I received an email to complete a module feedback questionnaire task in Blue?
Tasks in Blue are determined by staff roles in MMS. Details of ownership and access to tasks are provided in the Roles and responsibilities section on this page.
2. Why isn't my module visible in Blue?
A module may not appear in Blue for several reasons. Please check the following:
- The module has been marked for evaluation in MMS.
- Students are enrolled on the module.
- A staff member is assigned to the Module Coordinator role in MMS.
If all of the above conditions are met and there is still an issue, please contact us. Please note that any changes made in MMS will be reflected in Blue overnight after the system refresh.
3. Should a module with only one student be included in the evaluation?
Yes. Students should have the option to participate in the feedback if they wish. The Module Coordinator should inform the student that they are the only participant in the module and allow the student to decide whether they want to complete the questionnaire.
4. Why is my name showing incorrectly in Blue and in notifications I have received?
Personal details, including names, are taken from the student and staff record systems. If your name is incorrect, please follow these steps:
- Students: Guidance on updating your details is available on the Change your name or title at University webpage. If you have already done this, contact studentrecordsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk.
- Staff: Guidance on updating your details is available on the HR self service webpage.