With its surveys, Internal Evaluation supports the university's institutions in the area of teaching and learning. For example, the courses offered by University Didactics, the Graduate Academy or Personnel and Organisational Development can be evaluated in order to determine the suitability of content and framework conditions or to identify further needs. Data is also collected on programmes and modules, for example for human medicine, the orientation year and many others. An overview of surveys as services can be found here.

However, surveys conducted by individual students as part of their credits cannot be supported. The University provides licences for the Limesurvey software via IT services for this purpose .

Given the large scale of ongoing surveys, a lead time of four weeks should be allowed for, from the drafting of the questionnaire to the start of the survey.

The university department wishing to conduct a survey should send its draft questionnaire – as finalised as possible – to the Internal Evaluation Unit () in Word or PDF format, along with details of the format (online or paper-based) and the timeframe in which the survey is to be conducted. If guidance is required on drafting the questions, the Internal Evaluation team can provide support.

When conducting the evaluation of multiple courses, it is advisable to send the details to the Internal Evaluation team in a single Excel spreadsheet. A template can be found here. The following information should be provided: Title of the event + number (if applicable), lecturer, type of questionnaire (if multiple catalogues are used, for example for short or multi-day events), survey format (online/paper-based), language (if German or English is available) and the start and end dates of the survey.

Once Internal Evaluation has implemented the catalogue of questions in consultation with the respective institution, the survey can be conducted either in paper form or online. For the former variant, the evaluating institution receives a PDF print template of the questionnaire; in the case of a digital survey, the institution can send a link to its target group within a selected period of time and ask them to complete the evaluation.

In the case of event surveys, several different question catalogues can also be used, for example for short or multi-day events or depending on the thematic focus.

After the end of the survey, Internal Evaluation analyses the responses received and makes the results available to the institution.

After the end of the survey period, Internal Evaluation analyses the data received and creates frequency charts containing relevant key figures such as percentage distributions, mean values and standard deviations. Specific analyses are possible on request. If the transfer of raw data is desired, this must be checked on a case-by-case basis with regard to data protection.

When evaluating several events, analyses are created for each individual event as well as overview analyses at an agreed frequency per year or half-year.