M5# Activity 1: Design Your Feedback Loop

 Here’s a detailed suggestion for Activity 1: Design Your Feedback Loop — aimed at helping participants visualize and plan continuous improvement in their courses.

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🎯 Activity 1: Design Your Feedback Loop

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✅ Objective

• Help participants understand the concept of a feedback loop in Outcome-Based Education (OBE).

• Guide them to map how feedback is collected, analyzed, and used to improve teaching and learning.

• Encourage participants to identify assessment points, stakeholders, and improvement actions in their course.

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🧑‍🏫 Facilitator Preparation

• Provide a simple example of a feedback loop diagram.

• Share common feedback sources: student assessments, surveys, peer reviews, industry input, alumni feedback, etc.

• Provide a template or blank sheet for drawing feedback loops.

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📝 Activity Instructions for Participants

1. Identify key components of the feedback loop in their course:

   • Inputs: Assessment results, student feedback, peer review, industry inputs, etc.

   • Processes: Data analysis, meetings, discussions.

   • Outputs: Course improvements, revised teaching methods, updated materials.

2. Draw a feedback loop diagram showing:

   • Points where data/feedback is collected.

   • How data is analyzed and by whom.

   • Decisions and actions taken based on feedback.

3. Highlight specific tools or methods used (e.g., surveys, rubrics, CO attainment reports).

4. Optionally, write a brief narrative explaining their loop.

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🎨 Example Feedback Loop Components

• Assessment → Collect Scores & Feedback → Analyze CO Attainment & Feedback → Faculty Review Meeting → Action Plan (Curriculum/Teaching changes) → Implement Changes → Next Cycle Assessment

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📝 Template for Drawing or Listing

Step	Description	Stakeholders Involved	Tools/Methods Used	Action Taken
1	Collect student exam results	Faculty, Students	Exam, quizzes	Grade entry
2	Conduct course feedback survey	Students	Google Forms	Survey analysis
3	Analyze attainment data	Faculty, HOD	Excel reports	Identify gaps
4	Faculty meeting to discuss	Faculty, HOD	Minutes, presentation	Decide improvements
5	Implement changes in syllabus/teaching	Faculty	Revised syllabus	Course update

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🗣️ Facilitator Tips

• Encourage realistic and practical loops — avoid overcomplicating.

• Emphasize continuous improvement — it’s a cycle, not one-time.

• Encourage sharing and discussion of loops between participants for cross-learning.

• Provide examples from different disciplines if possible.

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🧰 Optional Tools

• Blank flowchart templates (MS Word/PowerPoint/Google Slides)

• Online diagram tools: Lucidchart, draw.io

• Sample feedback loop diagrams from real institutions

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