Measuring the satisfaction of your learners allows you to make sure they enjoyed the training and will apply their new knowledge and skills. If they weren’t satisfied, you can find out why. That way you’ll know how to better engage them when you revise the course or create other courses.

The only way to find out if your learners are satisfied with your training is to ask them. You can create a simple post-course satisfaction survey using a variety of free online survey-creation tools. These tools allow you to quickly create simple surveys and receive the results via email. Consider making your survey anonymous so participants feel comfortable giving honest feedback.

The results of your course satisfaction surveys will provide important data about what your learners liked and didn’t like about your course design. If the course is still in use, or reviewed annually, you can use the data to make updates and changes to the course. If you won’t get a chance to change that particular course once it’s published, try to incorporate the participant feedback, and what you’ve learned from it, into your next course design.