Guidelines for the course coordinator´s role
Each course has a course coordinator who has the main responsibility for the implementation of the course in the current semester. This includes planning and carrying out teaching, examinations, follow-up of students, evaluation and so on in collaboration with the administration. The person in charge of the course is also responsible for ensuring that students receive a good introduction to the course, with information about academic and practical arrangements when the course starts. It is recommended that all teachers involved with teaching the course are presented at the beginning of the course.
- The course coordinator organizes a meeting with all the teachers who are partaking in teaching the course so that they e.g. can cross-reference each other's topics/teaching.
- The course coordinator organizes a meeting with the other involved teachers in order to discuss exam tasks (if relevant) and assessment guidelines for the exam.
- If there are several examination commissions, the course coordinator arranges a meeting with the examiners.
- The course coordinator must, in collaboration with the level coordinator/course coordinators for parallel courses, ensure that courses that run in the same semester in a course of study have a plan for teaching, compulsory assignments and exams that provide the best possible study situation for the students.
(Clarification of the course coordinator's role was approved in the program council on January 19, 2015)
In some cases, the course coordinator is also the level coordinator and has responsibilities beyond the specific course.
Description of routines regarding the completion of courses at IPED (in Norwegian)
The role of course coordinator regarding quality assurance of the study programs
In addition to the points listed in UiO's system description, the program council at IPED has stipulated that:
- Responsibility for carrying out and reporting on the student evaluation rests with the course coordinator.
- Course coordinators for the course that consists of several different courses/offers and/or span several semesters consider how evaluation is to be carried out and make agreements with the various teachers.
- Evaluation takes place as the course coordinator deems appropriate. Evaluation can take place orally or in writing. Examples of implementation are: in paper form, in Canvas, online form, per e-mail, in a response group, student panel, or in other ways that the course coordinator chooses and organizes.
- Please note that students who wish to do so must have the opportunity to give their assessment of the teaching anonymously.
- Evaluation must be carried out every time the course is taught.
- The results are summarized by the course coordinator in a short report. Evaluation includes, among other things, student evaluation, teachers' evaluation and administrative evaluation.
- The head of studies and the administration send out information about course evaluations and deadlines every semester.
- The program council reviews the summaries. The summaries are also used as a basis for dialogue with the academic affairs committee (STUV) at the Faculty of Education (UV) about the quality of studies and education and the periodic program evaluations.