Annual Course Review

Each School or Department is required to complete an Annual Course Review of all coursework courses (or majors within courses in the case of large courses). Some courses/majors may be reviewed together as a group of courses e.g. a Graduate Certificate/ Graduate Diploma/ Masters, or a combination of majors which are articulated. The Head of School/Department is responsible for ensuring that the Annual Course Review Report (a one page summary using the ACR Report Template) is completed and forwarded via the Dean T&L to the Pro Vice-Chancellor by 31 October 2008. Pro-Vice-Chancellors and Deans of Teaching and Learning are responsible for reviewing reports and determining strategies for addressing issues of concern across a Faculty and reporting through the DVC Education to the Vice Chancellor. This report is to be received by the DVC Education by 30 November 2008.

An example of Course Review data and an Annual Course Review Report provides guidance on the level of detail required.

Annual Course Review data interpretation guidelines are available at http://planning.curtin.edu.au/reportal.cfm.

Two of the three key sources of data for the Annual Course Review are readily available through the University Planning and Quality's Information Reportal at http://planning.curtin.edu.au/reportal/index.html. These are:

Course Review data - includes course profile, demand, retention, progress, CEQ and GDS data at http://upsystems.curtin.edu.au:7779/CourseReview/index.jsp . Simply type in the course study package number and then a list of reports appears; select the reports and then interpret the data using guidelines; and
eVALUate Course Summary Report – downloadable by the Head of School/Department at https://evaluate.curtin.edu.au/login.cfm?from=/reports/curtin.cfm.

The third source of data is the CEQ qualitative comments from students. This data will be forwarded to Schools/Departments by University Planning and Quality by 17 September 2008.

Schools and Departments requiring assistance should contact Sue Jones (Chair, Courses Committee). Information sessions and individual consultations are available on request.

Schools and Departments with poor LTPF results (and particularly where CEQ results for the Good Teaching Scale or Overall Satisfaction are below the national average) are strongly encouraged to commence C2010 Comprehensive Course Review immediately (contact Beverley Oliver).

STEPS WITHIN ANNUAL COURSE REVIEW

Step	Process	Timeline
1	Identify groupings of courses/majors (Schools/Depts to do as per policy)	Sept 08
2	Go to Course Review Data in Information Reportal at http://upsystems.curtin.edu.au:7779/CourseReview/index.jsp	Sept 08
3	Download Guidelines for Course Review Data Interpretation	Sept 08
4	Enter course/major Study Package Number	Sept 08
5	Select each of the reports and print copies	Sept 08
6	Download Course Summary Report (also available at the major level within large courses) from https://evaluate.curtin.edu.au/login.cfm?from=/reports/curtin.cfm.	Sept 08
7	Review CEQ qualitative data from University Planning and Quality.	Sept 08
8	Review all sets of data with the Course Team using Guidelines for Course Review Data Interpretation to identify strengths, areas for improvement, and strategies and actions for improving performance.	Sept 08
9	Prepare Annual Course Review Report using ACR template. Any areas where the performance is below the national average or eVALUate data shows units with an overall satisfaction of <60% must include specific strategies to improve performance for each of those areas within the Report.	Oct 08
10	Submit Annual Course Review Report to Dean, Teaching and Learning.	31 Oct 08
11	Dean T&L and Pro Vice-Chancellor prepare summary of strengths, areas for improvement and strategies at School and Faculty level to submit to DVC Education.	30 Nov 08
12	DVC Education reviews Faculty reports and prepares report for Vice-Chancellor.	Dec 08
13	DVC Education reports to University Academic Board on success of strategies.	July 09