Describe the session, objectives, and decisions ahead. Makeform creates a focused training satisfaction survey with rating scales, comments, and follow-up questions.
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Sample prompts for the survey builder
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Audience
Employees completing a facilitated skills workshop
Format
Two-minute post-session survey with ratings and comments
Prompt size
269 chars
Example survey structure
Two-minute post-session survey with ratings and comments
Which workshop session did you attend?
Rate relevance, clarity, pacing, and activities
How confident are you applying the skills?
What helped most, and what remained unclear?
Would you like follow-up support?
Suggested routing tags
Strong session
Content revision
Follow-up needed
Ask about one objective at a time; an overall score cannot reveal which topic needs work.
Step 1
Frame
session, audience, and learning objectives
Step 2
Measure
experience, relevance, confidence, and barriers
Step 3
Review
compare themes by cohort or session
Step 4
Improve
revise content and route follow-up support
Feedback that guides a decision
Separate the parts you can improve: content relevance, facilitator clarity, practice, and readiness to apply the learning.
Use the same labeled five-point scale across cohorts so the learning team can compare sessions without decoding mixed rating formats.
Show a targeted comment when pace, clarity, or confidence is rated low, without giving every participant extra fields.
Ask about the most useful activity, least clear topic, and one change for the next delivery.
Adapt it to the learning format
Start with your delivery format, then edit the objectives, scales, and follow-up path.
Measure facilitator clarity, pace, discussion, practice, setup, and materials.
Ask about navigation, media, module length, examples, and technical friction.
Check task readiness and route requests for access, job aids, manager help, or another demonstration.
Capture module and cohort while tailoring objectives and next-step commitments.
Post-training workflow
Create a concise survey, share it at the close, then organize revisions and support.
Name the audience, format, objectives, and decisions so every question has a purpose.
Keep one idea per rating, label the scale, remove unusable questions, and test low-confidence paths.
Share a QR code or link before people leave, on the final slide, or in the completion message.
Review ratings with comments, group themes, and assign revisions or follow-up.
Survey design choices
A short survey works when responses point to a training, delivery, or support decision.
Field guide
Use six focused sections that match your objectives and decisions.
Session context
Capture only the context needed to compare results. Preselect the course, date, or facilitator when possible.
Overall reaction
Use overall satisfaction as a simple pulse, paired with one targeted comment. Do not treat it as a complete evaluation.
Content and objectives
Separate clarity from relevance, and name actual objectives instead of asking whether participants learned a lot.
Facilitation and experience
Ask about explanations, pacing, discussion, activities, and materials. Keep platform or room questions separate.
Confidence and application
Ask about confidence for specific objectives, the next planned behavior, and barriers outside the training itself.
Improvement and follow-up
Separate support requests from course suggestions, and ask permission before individual follow-up.
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Open toolFAQ
Answers for post-session feedback.
A training satisfaction survey is a post-session questionnaire about content relevance, facilitator clarity, pacing, activities, materials, confidence, and support needs. Each question should connect to a decision the learning team can make.
Rate satisfaction, relevance, objective clarity, facilitation, pace, practice, materials, and confidence. Ask what helped, what remained unclear, one suggested change, likely barriers, and desired support.
A practical immediate survey has five to eight rating items, two or three open questions, and an optional follow-up field. Remove any item that will not inform an action.
Use a consistently labeled five-point agreement, quality, or confidence scale. Match labels to the question, keep scale direction consistent, and offer “not applicable” when needed.
Collect a name only for individual follow-up or an authorized learning workflow. Otherwise, make it optional, ask whether contact is wanted, and explain how identifying information will be used.
Collect reaction feedback at the session close. For application feedback, send a separate follow-up after learners have had time to use the skill. The surveys answer different questions.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and reuse training surveys across sessions without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Compare sessions, read comments attached to low ratings, and group findings into content, facilitation, logistics, materials, and support. Assign each change an owner and compare the next delivery with the same core items.
Make the next session better than the last.
