Advanced Operating Systems
COMP9242 2013/S2 |
UNSW
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Comments on our Bespoke SurveyI'm very pleased to see that all but one of the enrolled students completed the survey (bribing with a t-shirt may have helped ;-) This certainly provides valuable feedback. General commentsThe results mostly speak for themselves. The course seems to be in good shape, overall satisfaction was very high, some critical comments notwithstanding. We are grateful for all the positive and encouraging comments, I won't discuss them, but be assured they are well received by the team! Let's look at the critical comments that address issues under our control (and changing which would not obviously be at odds with the overall objectives for the course). Also, I'm skipping comments that are already addressed in the myExperience response. Blue font indicates concrete action items. Q1: Quick evaluationIt's great to see the strong approval scores for all people involved (individual lecturers as well as the class of tutors), with "excellent" dominating. It's pleasing to see that their commitment is appreciated. Q9: Worst thingsAll these came up in the myExperience survey and are addressed in that context. However, one seems to merit more discussion:
Q17: What should be added?
Q18: What should be excluded?No clear votes for anything specific, and the things mentioned are all topics that were popular with the majority of people. My take-away is that there's no strong argument for dropping any specific content. The ones that seem least clear-cut are:
Q9–21: Lecture attendanceAs stated in the questionnaire, lecture attendance was actually quite good (particularly by post-pandemic standards), with about 50% attending most lectures in person. Believe me, I really appreciate this! Talking to real people and getting people to ask and answer questions for me personally makes a big difference, and I'm sure has a strong positive effect on lecture quality. In that sense it's pleasing to see that the predominant reason for not attending live lectures was workload / time pressure. It seems students do value the live lectures and will attend them when they can. Q25: Difficulty of various partsThis looks reasonably balanced, although M5 sticks out as being hard. Prior to trimesters we could afford another week for that one... Q26: How well specified?This looks fine to me, given that we intentionally don't want to be too prescriptive. Q27: Quality of...
Q31: Final Comments
Thanks again for the very nice words, they are a great encouragement for the whole team! FinalThanks for the feedback, and your participation in the course! Gernot |