If you haven’t already seen it, I recommend Sarah’s post: Checking in: How to collect and respond to student feedback online which details the why and how of collecting student feedback.
This brief post is meant to share two student feedback templates in google forms that you can adapt to utilize in your own course.
Here is a link you can use to make a copy of a short, 5-question form.
Here is a link you can use to make a copy of a more detailed, 10-question form.
And here are a few tutorials that you might need to customize the form:
Change the color, theme, or header image of a google form
Edit a question in google forms
Get an email for new form responses
Finally, the most important step of collecting student feedback is reporting back to your students. Even explaining why you cannot change something provides greater transparency between you and your students.
Note: If you’ve used the Hub’s “Course Feedback” Survey in Canvas Commons, the longer survey is the same. When Canvas moved to new quizzes, it no longer supported graded/ungraded surveys so the recommendation is to use a different survey tool, like google forms.
Updated October 8th, 2026 Added a shorter 5-question feedback form alongside the existing 10-question form and updated the Canvas guidance to reflect the transition to New Quizzes.