About Course Critique
Better feedback. Better insight. Better teaching.
Course Critique is a simple platform designed to make student feedback more useful, accessible and continuous.
Instead of relying only on feedback collected at the end of a module, Course Critique allows students to share their experience throughout the academic year — while teaching is still taking place and there is still an opportunity to respond.
Students can search for their lecturer or module, or scan a QR code shared in class, and provide feedback without needing to create an account or log in.
For lecturers, that anonymous feedback is transformed into clear and practical insight, including teaching scores, star ratings, trends, written comments, recurring themes and downloadable reports.
The aim is simple: make it easier for students to have a voice, and easier for lecturers to learn from it.
Anonymous · Quick · Useful · Continuous
Student voice into teaching insight
From a QR code in the classroom to a lecturer’s dashboard, Course Critique makes continuous feedback simple.
Course Critique is built around a few simple principles:
- Anonymous by design — students can respond openly without their identity being attached to their feedback.
- Easy to access — no student account or login is required.
- Useful for lecturers — feedback is turned into clear scores, comments, trends and themes.
- Continuous — feedback can be shared at any point during a module.
- Focused on improvement — the purpose is constructive insight that can help develop teaching and the student experience.
Built from teaching practice
Course Critique has been developed around the realities of teaching rather than as a generic survey tool.
Students need something that is fast and straightforward.
Lecturers need something that helps them identify patterns rather than individual isolated comments.
And useful feedback needs to be available while there is still time to do something with it.
That is what Course Critique is designed to provide.
Why Course Critique?
Traditional module evaluations are useful, but they often arrive once teaching has finished.
Course Critique takes a more continuous approach.
Students can comment when something works particularly well, when something could be improved, or simply when they want their lecturer to know how they are experiencing the module.
That gives lecturers an opportunity to reflect, respond and develop their teaching throughout the year rather than waiting for an end-of-module report.
About Steve Northam
Lecturer, entrepreneur and creator of Course Critique
I’m Steve Northam, a Senior Lecturer in Business and Entrepreneurship at the University of Winchester.
Alongside teaching, I have spent much of my career building businesses and developing practical approaches to entrepreneurship, innovation and enterprise education. That combination of teaching and real-world business experience has shaped the way I work with students and the way I think about improving the learning experience.
Course Critique grew from a very simple idea: if I genuinely want students to tell me what they think, I should make it as easy as possible for them to do so.
I wanted feedback that could be collected throughout a module, not just at the end. I also wanted something that went beyond simply collecting comments — a system that could turn student responses into useful information I could reflect on and act upon.
What began as a way of understanding feedback on my own teaching has developed into a platform that can now be used by other lecturers, each with their own secure dashboard, module-specific QR codes, analytics and reports.
