Courses and Units

Course Demographics

The Course Demographics dashboard is an interactive dashboard that displays the demographic breakdown of students by course at Western. The allows you to filter by campus, residency status, commencing status and gender and is accessible to Western Staff only.

Program Review Dashboards

The Program Review Dashboard process is undertaken for all courses each year to track the performance and viability of courses against a range of course quality indicators. These include load, progression, retention and results from the Student Feedback on Units survey, Student Experience Survey and Graduate Outcomes Survey. The Program Review Dashboard is accessible to Western staff only

Comparative Unit Enrolment

This dashboard tracks total EFTSL and enrolments by UNIT on a daily basis. It also includes weekly comparisons showing current total Unit EFTSL and Unit Enrolments vis-à-vis the totals 7 days prior and on the same day in the previous year.

This dashboard has restricted access to Western staff only.

Student Feedback on Subjects and Teaching

We run the Student Feedback on Subjects (SFS) and Student Feedback on Teaching (SFT) surveys for each teaching period during the year. The feedback provided helps Western improve teaching methods and units of study. The survey results inform unit content and design, learning guides, teaching methods, assessment processes and teaching materials.

Restricted access to SFS results is available to Deans, Deputy Deans, Associate Deans Learning & Teaching and Directors of Academic Programs at the SFS Performance Dashboard.

Unit Success Summary

The Unit Success Summary is the integrated source of unit performance information (accessible to Western staff only). The USS landing page currently contains links to three sources of unit performance data:

The Enrolment Flux Dashboard shows the number of students enrolled in a unit at various points in time throughout the semester, from week one to post-census date, giving a snapshot of how many students enrolled and withdrew over a session.

The Grade Distribution Dashboard shows the spread of grades achieved by students in each unit since 2016. The dashboard can be filtered by a range of measures, allowing easy identification of more challenging units and changes in student outcomes over time.

The SFU Performance Dashboard shows outcomes from the Student Feedback on Units survey from 2017 onwards. Student satisfaction is presented across a range of performance measures with verbatim text comments provided for review.

Contact Us

To contact the staff of the Office of Competitive Intelligence & Analytics, refer to our contact form.

Surveys

Contact the Survey Team via email at surveys@westernsydney.edu.au

Mail

Office of Competitive Intelligence & Analytics
Building I, Level 2, Penrith campus (Kingswood)
Western Sydney University
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith NSW 2751
Australia