The Course Builder software suite
Course Builder was designed in partnership with leading European third level institutions and was built to comply with national and ECTS requirements.
Benefits to the lecturer
- Provides easy to use module and course builder tools
- Facilitates constructive alignment between assessment and module learning outcomes
- Provides a web based system allowing access to full functionality wherever needed
Benefits to the department head/chair
- Facilitates the planning of module and course delivery including resource allocation and cost projections
- Aids design of new courses of study
- Provides a consistent source of information for course promotion
Benefits to the marketing, administration and academic quality units
- Embedded support for quality enhancement processes including course approval and review workflow features
- Allows delivery and assessment of course learning outcomes to be mapped through to module learning outcomes facilitating constructive alignment
- Provides a single definitive source of all information relating to course provision
- Enforces data integrity e.g. ensure all module learning outcomes are assessed
- Provides integrated publishing system for course promotion material etc
Benefits to MIS and IT services
- Can integrate with existing software systems such as; Campus-IT, ITS and Banner
- Ensures no missing data and facilitates “enter once, use often”
- Meets corporate reporting and data provision requirements
- Secure integrated network username/password access (LDAP)
