Course and training evaluation form templates
A course evaluation form asks the people who sat through something to rate the parts of it you can actually change — content, instructor, pace, materials — and to say in their own words what worked. This collection gathers the formformform templates built for that, from a fully anonymous end-of-term evaluation to a workplace training survey that asks whether anyone will use what they learned.
Evaluating teaching is one narrow job: ask the people who were there to rate a handful of things you could change next time, and give them room to say what a rating cannot. Almost every form for that job has the same skeleton — name the course and whoever taught it, rate four to six dimensions, a couple of free-text boxes, one would-you-recommend at the end — which is why a collection like this has to be assembled by hand rather than by category. Four of these templates are education forms, but the workplace training survey lives in surveys and feedback, and the alumni outcome survey lives with the alumni templates, because a course evaluation and a post-training survey are the same form pointed at different rooms.
The axis that actually separates them is how much the form knows about who is answering. At one end, the Course Evaluation Form has no name field and no email field at all: it asks for the course, the instructor and the term, and nothing else that could identify a student. The Student Course Feedback Form and the eLearning Course Feedback Form keep both fields but leave them optional, and the student form goes further by writing "(optional)" into both labels so nobody has to guess. Two members split the difference in opposite directions: the Tutoring Session Feedback Form requires the student's name and leaves the email optional, because a tutor's next session depends on knowing whose it was, while the Alumni Outcome Survey requires the email and leaves the name optional, because a program office needs a way to reach someone years later more than it needs a signature. And the Training Effectiveness Survey requires both, because HR is tracking completion, not running a secret ballot. The second axis is timing, and it shows up in the questions: a tutoring session is rated one sitting at a time, against a required Session Date and a duration in minutes; an online module is rated on "Video / Audio Quality" and on whether the learner picks "Completed — I finished the entire course" or "In progress — I have not finished yet"; workplace training is rated on whether anyone will apply it; and an alumni survey rates a program against a career that happened afterwards. Even the pace question splits three ways — "Too fast / Just right / Too slow" on the e-learning form, five steps from "Too slow" to "Too fast" on the course evaluation, and "Much too slow" to "Much too fast" on the training survey.
The constraint that bites here is that formformform has no rating or scale field: no stars, no 0–10 slider, no matrix where six rows share one set of columns. Every rating on every template in this collection is a radio group whose options are written out as words, which is why the scales are not consistent — the student form uses a four-point Excellent / Good / Fair / Poor with no middle, the e-learning form uses a five-point Excellent through Poor with a sixth "Not applicable" on Exercises and Quizzes, and the training survey numbers its points but not with one wording, running "1 – Very poor" to "5 – Excellent" on delivery and materials and "1 – Not relevant" to "5 – Extremely relevant" on content. No field in the editor will turn those into a grid, so treat the wording as the scale: open the cloned form in the editor, rewrite the option lists so every dimension you rate uses the same words in the same order, and your responses become comparable across questions and across terms.
6 templates, and when to use each
Every one is free to open, edit and publish. The line under each name is what separates it from the others here.
- Course Evaluation Form
Reach for this when you want the evaluation to be genuinely anonymous — it is the only member with no name field and no email field at all, so nothing on the form identifies who filled it in, and it is also the only one that checks whether the course matched what was advertised ("Exactly as described" through "Not at all") and how clear the assignments and expectations were.
Collect student feedback on course content, instructor, and pace.
12 questionsEducation Forms - Student Course Feedback Form
Use it when students should be allowed to sign their feedback but never required to: it is the only member that writes "(optional)" into both the name and the email label, so nobody has to guess which fields they can skip, it pins the response to a term through a fixed Semester / Term dropdown rather than a free-text box, and its recommend question is the only one that offers "Yes, with reservations" — the answer most students actually mean.
Gather anonymous student ratings and written feedback on courses and instructors.
12 questionsEducation Forms - eLearning Course Feedback Form
Use it for a self-paced online course, where production quality is part of the product — it is the only member that rates Video / Audio Quality alongside the teaching, the only one that asks up front whether the learner picked "Completed — I finished the entire course" or "In progress — I have not finished yet" so drop-offs can be read separately, and the only one that ends on two multiple-choice questions rather than one: would you recommend this course, and would you take another course from this provider.
Collect structured feedback from online learners on content, instruction, and experience.
14 questionsEducation Forms - Tutoring Session Feedback Form
Use it when the unit being rated is one sitting rather than a whole course — it is the only member that logs a Session Duration in minutes next to a required Session Date and Subject Tutored, its ratings judge the tutor as a person (Tutor's Knowledge of the Subject, Clarity of Explanations, Patience and Encouragement) rather than a syllabus, and its second free-text box is the only one on this page that asks what the student still needs help with rather than how the teaching should change.
Collect student ratings and written feedback after each tutoring session.
13 questionsEducation Forms - Training Effectiveness Survey
Use it for workplace training, where the question is not whether people enjoyed the day but whether anything changes on Monday — it is the only member that asks how likely someone is to apply what they learned, with answers that separate "Very likely — I have a clear plan to apply it" from "Unsure — I need more practice or support first", the only one that rates the relevance of the content to the respondent's own role, and the only one that requires both a name and an email so completion can be tied to a person.
Evaluate training programs on content, delivery, materials, and impact.
14 questionsSurveys & Feedback Forms - Alumni Outcome Survey
Use it when you are evaluating a whole program years after anyone finished it — it is the only member that asks what the respondent does for a living now, including employment status and whether that work is related to the degree field, and it grades the institution on how well the program prepared them for that career rather than on how a single term went.
Measure career outcomes and program satisfaction from your graduates.
14 questionsAlumni Forms
What these forms are made of
These forms ask between 12 and 14 questions each, and 56 of the 79 questions across the set are required. Field types, counted once per template:
- Long Text6 of 6 templates
- Radio6 of 6 templates
- Short Text6 of 6 templates
- Email5 of 6 templates
- Date2 of 6 templates
- Dropdown2 of 6 templates
- Number2 of 6 templates
How to build a course and training evaluation form
Decide first whether you want signed feedback or anonymous feedback, and build the top of the form around that answer — delete the name and email fields outright if you want honesty, or make them required if you are tracking who completed the training.
Add the identifying facts about the thing being rated rather than the person: course or training name, instructor or facilitator, and a term, session date or cohort, so two years of responses can still be told apart.
Pick four to six dimensions worth rating and no more — content, instruction, materials, pace, assessment — and make each one its own radio field with the scale points spelled out in the options.
Use the same option wording on every rating in the form, and keep pace separate: a pace question needs a two-directional scale from "too slow" to "too fast", where a quality question needs one that runs from bad to good.
Add two free-text boxes, one for what worked and one for what to change, and make a third earn its place — the Course Evaluation Form's third box is a bare "Anything else?", which is the kind of prompt people skip.
Close with the question that carries the decision: would you recommend this course, would you book another session, or how likely are you to apply this at work, depending on what you would actually do with the answer.
Who uses these forms
One audience per template, in the order the templates are listed above, taken from what each template names for itself.
Frequently asked questions
How do I make a course evaluation anonymous?
By what the form asks. The Course Evaluation Form here already has no name or email field, so it collects nothing that identifies a student; on any other template, delete the Name and Email fields in the editor and the same is true. One template says so on the field itself — the Student Course Feedback Form labels both "Student Name (optional)" and "Email Address (optional)" — which is a reasonable middle ground when you want students who are happy to be named to be named. The eLearning Course Feedback Form leaves both fields optional too but does not say so in the label, and be aware that "optional" and "absent" read very differently to someone deciding how candid to be about their instructor.
Does formformform have a star rating or a 1–10 scale field?
No. There is no rating field type and no matrix or grid question, so every rating you see on these templates is a radio group with its scale points written out as options. That is a real limitation for long evaluations, but it has one advantage worth keeping: because the points are words, "3" is never left to the respondent's imagination. If you want a numbered scale, write it into the options the way the Training Effectiveness Survey does — "1 – Very poor" through "5 – Excellent".
How many things should a course evaluation ask people to rate?
The templates here settle between four and six, counting the rating questions and setting aside the recommend-or-apply question each form closes on. On that count the Student Course Feedback Form rates four — content, instructor, materials, overall — the Course Evaluation Form and the Training Effectiveness Survey rate five each, and the eLearning Course Feedback Form rates six, because it adds Video / Audio Quality and a separate Exercises and Quizzes question to the usual four. Past that, the ratings start measuring how tired the respondent is rather than how the course went, and the free-text boxes will tell you more than a seventh dimension would.
How do I tell whether training actually worked, not just whether people liked it?
Ask about behaviour rather than satisfaction, which is what makes the Training Effectiveness Survey different from the classroom forms on this page: after the open questions about what was useful, it asks how likely someone is to apply what they learned, and its options distinguish a clear plan from needing more practice first. If you also want to measure what people retained, that is a separate form and a separate moment — a knowledge test sent a few weeks later, not another question bolted onto the evaluation.
Can I run the same evaluation every term and compare the results?
Yes, and the practical advice is to change as little as possible between runs. Keep the rating labels and their option wording identical, because a scale rewritten mid-year makes the previous term's data incomparable. Watch the term field in particular: the Student Course Feedback Form uses a fixed Semester / Term dropdown that runs from Fall 2024 to Spring 2026 and then falls back to "Other", so that list needs editing before each new cycle, while the Course Evaluation Form's free-text Term / Session field never goes stale but never groups cleanly either. Export responses to CSV when you want to line two terms up side by side.
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