1Oh Ben - I just remembered I never filled in that form for Nick.
2Did you do it?
3The course feedback form?
4Yes.
5If you want, we can do it together,
6I've got mine here.
7Is that OK?
8Yeah.
9Okay, let's have a look then.
10What do we have to do?
11Let's fill in the top first,
12let's see, Course, Course code...
13Er, it's Communication in Business.
14Okay, Communication... in.. Business.
15I do know that, but what's the code?
16CB16 something,
17CB162, isn't it?
18Mmm, that's it. Okay and dates.
19When did we start?
20I remember, my birthday's on May 4th and it was the day after,
21it must have been May 5th.
22Gosh, doesn't seem that long ago, does it?
23No, and we finish at the end of this week, on Friday, so that's...
24July 15th?
25Er 16th, Monday was the 12th.
26Right, that was the easy bit, now let's have a look -
27"Please give your comments on the following aspects of the course".
28Okay, what's the first one?
29Oh, course organisation.
30What do you think?
31Er, clear?
32It was, wasn't it?
33Yeah, I think the organisation was clear.
34Okay, anything else for course organisation?
35Erm... It was a good thing he gave us the course outline at the beginning, in the first session,
36that was useful, so I'll put that down, shall I?
37Yeah.
38Now, going on to suggestions for improvement,
39one thing that wasn't so good,
40I think we could have done a bit more work at the beginning,
41I mean at the beginning it seemed dead easy.
42I thought it was going to be really easy
43and then all of a sudden in the second half of the course, we got a whole load of work,
44reading to do and essays and things.
45Yeah, it'd be better if it was more even.
46Okay, now course delivery,
47does that mean teaching?
48Yeah, I suppose so.
49Well, what I thought was really good on this course was the standard of teaching.
50Actually - I mean some of the teachers were better than others -
51but the standard generally was fine.
52Much better than other courses I've been on.
53Yeah, I agree. Let's put that then.
54What about suggestions for improvement?
55I didn't think it was all that wonderful when we had great long group discussion sessions that went on for hours and hours.
56I don't mean we shouldn't have group discussions,
57just that they shouldn't go on too long.
58Now, on to materials and equipment.
59Oh, now what was good about some sessions was the handouts.
60Yes, I thought all the handouts were good actually, and some were great, with website addresses and everything.
61One problem though with materials was the key texts.
62Yes!
63There just weren't enough copies on reserve in the library.
64And if you can't get the key texts before the session,
65how are you supposed to do the reading?
66And not enough computers.
67You have to wait ages to get one.
68OK, testing and evaluation.
69Well, I don't know, it's hard to say until we've got our written assignments back.
70Don't talk about it,
71I only got mine in yesterday, it was a real struggle.
72I hate to think what mark I'll get.
73Yeah, but at least we've done the oral presentation.
74I thought that was good, the way I got my feedback really quickly.
75Yes, it was.
76And I liked the way we knew what we'd be evaluated on,
77we knew the criteria, so we knew we had to think about clarity, organisation, and so on.
78But I'm not so sure about the written work.
79One thing I think is that there's just too much, it's really stressful.
80Oh yes, I'd agree
81and I don't see why they can't let us know the criteria they use for marking.
82The written assignments?
83But he told us.
84No, for the final exams.
85What are they looking for - what are the criteria?
86What makes a pass or a fail?
87Yeah, I never thought of that.
88It'd be really useful.
89Okay, any other comments?
90I thought student support was excellent.
91Yeah, me too.
92Okay, excellent.
93Other comments?
94No. I can't think of anything else.
95Nor me.
96Okay, so that's done.
97Thanks, Ben.
98No, thank you.