Annual User Survey

See Website Feedback Survey results below:

Reports

Key Insights

2024 2023 2022 2021
Overview
  • 19 January - 27 February
  • Responses: 4,794
  • Completion Rate: 2.5%
  • 13 February - 21 March
  • Responses: 3,975
  • Completion Rate: 3.04%
  • 18 January - 02 March
  • Responses: 7,987
  • Completion Rate: 3.62%
  • 09 June - 16 July
  • Responses: 3,977
  • Completion Rate: 7.65%
Device
  • Desktop: 61%
  • Tablet: 1%
  • Mobile: 39%
  • Desktop: 63%
  • Tablet: 1%
  • Mobile: 36%
  • Desktop: 59%
  • Tablet: 1%
  • Mobile: 40%
  • Desktop: 60%
  • Tablet: 1%
  • Mobile: 39%
Age
  • 20-29: 42%
  • 16-19: 28%
  • 30-39: 14%
  • 20-29: 51%
  • 16-19: 16%
  • 30-39: 14%
  • 20-29: 57%
  • 16-19: 14%
  • 30-39: 13%
  • 20-29: 43%
  • 30-39: 17%
  • 16-19: 15%
Country
  • Ireland: 83%
  • India: 3%
  • Nigeria: 3%
  • Ireland: 81%
  • India: 4%
  • Nigeria: 4%
  • Ireland: 82.1%
  • India: 2.5%
  • Nigeria: 2.4%
  • Ireland: 79%
  • India: 5.4%
  • Nigeria: 2%
User Type
  • Applicants: 43%
  • Current Student: 45%
  • Applicants: 43%
  • Current Student: 41%
  • Current Student: 45%
  • Applicants: 42%
  • Applicants: 50%
  • Current Student: 29%
User Goal
  • Course Information: 45%
  • Student Services: 28%
  • Campus & Facilities Information: 6% 
  • Course Information: 40%
  • Student Services: 23%
  • Library Information: 13% 
  • Course Information: 34%
  • Student Services: 22%
  • Campus & Facilities Information: 13% 
  • Course Information: 35%
  • Library Information: 16%
  • Student Services: 22%
Usability
  • Difficult to find previous exam papers
  • Mobile navigation needs improvement
  • Difficult to find previous exam papers, Brightspace
  • For Staff - exam results (EGB) and Infoview 
  • Library resources and fee paying portal difficult to navigate and outdated
  • Reduce clicks to VLE Login (Brightspace) 
  • Module Descriptors difficult to find
  • Outdated content and legacy links
  • Navigation has improved, menu navigation needs to be reviewed
  • Legacy site link issues
  • Menu navigation is restrictive
  • Information on Fees, Schools and Libraries difficult to find 
  • Improvements to course search needed - too many options
  • Cookie notice displays after each search - frustrating for users 
  • Module Descriptors - listing module title isn’t sufficient
Design
  • Improve mobile design
  • Show more video content
  • Improvements to responsiveness and mobile design
  • Mobile menu improvements
  • Show more images and videos of campus and student life
  • Desire for new, engaging, modern features
  • Showcase imagery
  • Reduce size of header images
  • New high quality images
  • Highlight social media
  • Staff bios/profiles feature
  • Reduce size of header images
 
Comments
TBC
  • Navigation improvements (in progress)
  • Mobile testing (in progress)
  • Content audit (in progress)
  • For Students section review (complete)
  • Update Header image size (complete)
  • Explore social media feed options (complete)
  • Course search improvements (in progress)
  • Update Cookie notice settings (complete)
  • Develop new people profile feature (complete)
  • Update image bank (in progress)