Seminar feedback made easy

Educational offers such as seminars, training or courses are associated with a large use of resources (time, costs, energy, ...) for both providers and participants. In this context, it is therefore important to tailor the educational offerings to the learning needs of the participants in a targeted and precise manner.

With the regular and systematic conduct of surveys before, during and after seminars, training providers receive direct feedback from their participants, which they can use in a variety of ways:

- For direct feedback on individual questions and registrations
- To systematically improve the learning content
- To track improvements over time

Seminar surveys with direct participant feedback help to identify inefficient training content and remove it from the agenda. Thanks to open questions, you get ideas for new learning content and learning needs, and can thus systematically improve your training offer.

A seminar evaluation survey tool can be used at many different points in your seminar program.

For example:

- Surveys before the event to determine learning status and expectations- .Surveys during the event, e.g. as impulse surveys on the current mood or expectations in the learning groups
- Post-event surveys to measure satisfaction and identify opportunities for improvement.

Online surveys are the easiest and most efficient way to gather seminar feedback. You can distribute seminar surveys created with Netigate via all conceivable digital channels - starting with links or embedded in e-mails, on your website or in terminals. Many Netigate users from the seminar area also have displays with a QR code for the survey in the seminar room, so that participants can give their feedback directly via smartphone.

They are still standard in numerous seminars and training courses: paper questionnaires (pen-and-pencil questionnaires). Sure - at first glance they are easier to fill out, but the disadvantages outweigh the disadvantages:

- High manual effort and error rate when transferring the questionnaire results, e.g. into a spreadsheet
- High time delay in the evaluation, reports and algorithms (e.g. NPS calculation) also have to be built in-house
- Lower response rate than with digital surveys via Netigate, since there are no follow-up and reminder options (e.g. emails)

In addition, paper questionnaires are no longer possible, especially with the increasingly popular virtual seminars. Anyone who wants to collect seminar feedback systematically and over the long term cannot avoid a digital survey tool.

Yes. You can also use Netigate as a tool for seminar registrations, for example as a form to embed on your website. To do this, simply follow these steps:

- Simply start a new survey, as usual.
- Ask for the data you need as free text fields (possibly also mandatory)
- Use our embed function for the website to use the form.

Of course, you can also use logics and additional fields for this purpose, as well as generate automatic response e-mails. Also your colleagues in the seminar administration can get access to the data of this report (as well as push notifications).

Netigate can of course also be used for other queries, as well as highly customized. Some of our seminar customers even use Netigate to book hotel accommodations at registration.

Of course,. Netigate is used as a survey tool not only for face-to-face seminars, but also on learning platforms or virtual learning environments for e-learning. Especially in virtual or hybrid learning models, embedding online surveys is very easy - and also important, since here the direct feedback of learners to a trainer for the systematic further development of e-learning modules is missing.

In face-to-face events, trainers are able to determine an "informal" picture of the mood through personal interaction with the participants. Of course, this "direct line" to the learners is completely eliminated with virtual offers.
And it is precisely here that it is all the more important to collect the seminar feedback from participants by means of surveys, otherwise essential information on the efficiency of the learning content will be lost.

The evaluation of seminars, training and courses is carried out by means of surveys. These usually contain some typical question types, as you can see in our sample template for seminar evaluations.

Typical questions are for example:

- What is your overall impression of the seminar (on a scale of 1-5)
- How relevant was the content of the seminar for you?
- What content would you like to add to the seminar?

A seminar or training course naturally thrives on the presence of your trainers and instructors - and feedback from participants is particularly important for your instructors in order to improve the learning content.
Typical questions concerning the evaluation of instructors are, for example, how well the instructor conveyed the learning content (e.g. on a scale of 1-5), or how individual or constructive the feedback was.

As with other online surveys, the same applies to seminar evaluations: When people give feedback, personal data circulates very quickly. Therefore, when choosing your survey tool, pay attention to crucial aspects such as handling private data and the hosting location.
With the Netigate survey tool, users benefit from a particularly high level of security:

- Highest standards for information security (we are ISO 27001 certified)
- Server location in the European Union or Germany
- Data processing according to DSGVO (GDPR) standards