Complete Unit Health Checks

Completing a Unit Health Check is a collaborative process between faculty leadership and unit teaching teams. The aim is to ensure improvements are practical, supported, and aligned with Monash’s commitment to high-quality student experience.

Unit Health Checks tools and processes

The primary tools for Unit Health Checks are:

  • the individual Unit Action Plans (UIP, Unit Review, Unit Escalation documents),
  • a Faculty memo for overall faculty responses, along with
  • a spreadsheet for Faculty responses to High Fail rates.

The individual Unit documents contain records of past Action Plans. Please note that the design, triggers, and SETU itself has progressively improved and some past action plans may have data and details that don’t apply to the current process. The underlying actions and outcomes are still valid and should be taken into account in current Action Plans.

Unit Health Check contacts

SETU, HFU: Education Portfolio SETU and Review, pdvce-setu-review@monash.edu

Unit viability: Director Coursework Portfolio & Governance, Freya Troedel


Action plan example

This example action plan demonstrates how these ideas come together in practice. In this scenario, the review has identified that students feel disconnected from the relationship between lecture content and the assessment task, and are hesitant to seek help. In response, the reviewer has selected strategies focused on strengthening connection‑making and building a more visible and supportive online presence.

All proposed actions should also include appropriate mini scale survey implementation to gather additional student experience data. This is critical for cases where the action fails to improve student experience, to investigate further the underlying reasons for the reported student experience outcome.

Example action plan