Course quality assurance checklist

Course description

Requirement items

(tick the ☐ to confirm)

Course description structure

Example course description:

Why Tourism Business should be Sustainable

Gender and Digital Learning Design

☐ I acknowledge the below description example and will ensure my course description is structured the same*, including headers:

* this includes font, text size and colour changes which are not allowed for public courses

Summary (= first two sentences in the course description)

Here are some examples:

How can using a computer and the internet for e-commerce activity benefit your business?

Get a clear understanding of the environmental, social and cultural aspects associated with the elephant-based tourism.

Explore soft skills such as interpersonal skills and personal characteristics.

☐ max. 2 sentences as a short summary of the course

Note: max. 110 characters can be displayed in the preview of your course.

The first sentence must include:

• skills that will be acquired in this course (soft skills, processes, digital skills, practical skills, etc.)
• or if not a clear skill, the topic of the course (cybersecurity, soy production, hospitality, entrepreneurship)

We recommend: to use “you” and directly address the learner e.g. “you will learn, understand how to manage, … “

Who is this course for?

Describe your target group, incl. required prior knowledge if applicable (i.e., relevant professions, formal qualifications, and/or skills / previous relevant completed courses)

E.g. This course is for tourism professionals in management positions and tourism entrepreneurs.

☐ I have added this to my course description

What will you learn?

Describe the learning objectives using the Blooms Taxonomy formulation:

E.g.: By the end of the course, you will be able to accurately recall and define key entrepreneurial terms.

☐ I have added this to my course description

You will be able to apply ______ [skill/ knowledge] in ______ [context].

How much time do you need to invest?

Describe the amount of time a learner would need to complete the course in mins or hours. Please make sure that the amount of time corresponds to the one in the metadata field.

E.g.: You need to invest 2 hours to complete this course

☐ I have added this to my course description

Topics Overview

List 3-10 main ideas and keywords that define what your content is about, this will help with better search matches.

E.g. Agriculture, water management, irrigation

☐ I have added this to my course description

Certificate

At this stage you only need to add the information that and how the certificate can be received by the learners to the course description.

E.g. The platform will automatically generate a certificate after you have completed modules x and z and passed the quiz.

☐ I have added this to my course description

Optional for for tutored courses in open-link or non-public library only
Course start & end date

☐ If applicable, I have added this to my course description

Optional for tutored courses in open-link or non-public library but also for courses with moderated activities, such as chats and forums.

Names of tutors & moderators

☐ If applicable, I have added this to my course description

Course Provider

Name the course owner, namely the provider of the course

☐ I have added this to my course description

Course contact

Enter name and e-mail of person to be contacted for questions regarding the course content.

☐ I have added this to my course description

Content license

We encourage our partners to make content shareable, as it enables other partners to reuse and adapt your content, rather than develop similar content from scratch again. If you want your content to be openly licensed, please indicate the exact type of your Creative Commons license or take our short course on Open Educational Resources.

Please use this sentence:

“The contents of this course are licensed under [License], unless otherwise indicated.”

Choose from the ➡️ CC licences available. An example would be: CC BY-SA 4.0.

☐ CC-BY

☐ CC-BY-SA

☐ CC-BY-ND

☐ CC-BY-NC

☐ CC-BY-NC-SA

☐ CC-BY-NC-ND

Only for non-public courses: If instead you need your content to be copyrighted, please indicate:

☐ Copyright ©_______ [insert organisation name]. All rights reserved.

Course publication date

Please note that the course publication date will be adjusted by your account manager in case your launch date is at a later point due to a longer QA process than expected.

☐ I have added this to my course description

[Month YYYY]

(example: March 2022)

Optional: Additional Information

e.g., recommended browser, course version, link to other useful courses or what the learner needs to interact with the content, e.g., a stable internet connection.

☐ If applicable, I have added this to my course description

Course structure

Requirement items

(tick the ☐ to confirm)

Course format

☐ Workplace list format

or

☐ Tile format

If you’re using tile format:

☐ You copied the course description and course picture from the course settings into the ‘general summary’ section.

(You can find the ’summary of [Custom]’/ ‘Summary of General’ section by going to your course, turn editing on and clicking on the first three dots in the top right to edit this section.)

☐ If you choose a customized tile image, it should be in landscape format; (width should be about 1.35 times the height, e.g., 270 width x 200 height).

Desired topic filters

Your account manager will set the filters up for you on the platform

Please choose from this list which 1-3 topic(s) your course belongs to:

☐ Agriculture

☐ Artificial Intelligence

☐ Digital Skills & Transformation

☐ Energy Efficiency

☐ Entrepreneurship

☐ Environment & Climate

☐ Gender & Inclusion

☐ Management & Leadership

☐ Migration

☐ Governance

☐ Health

☐ Professional Orientation

☐ Tourism & Hospitality

Course length

☐ The length of the course is up to 4 hours. Longer courses are split up in several courses.

Course sections

(“section” means a single tab or tile in your course)

Course contains at least:

☐ 1 section named ’Introduction’, ´Welcome´or comparable

☐ Min. 2 instructional sections with approximately 25 learning minutes each

☐ 1 section named ‘Assessment’, ‘Final exam’, ‘Quiz’ or comparable OR the assessment is added inside the instructional section for each module

☐ 1 section named ’Certificate’

☐ Section titles are descriptive and concise

i.e., not named ‘Module 1’ but instead ‘1: Basics of Cybersecurity’

☐ Each section has a short intro sentence

You can edit the section by going to the section and clicking on the three vertical dots at the top right.

Specify time per module within your sections.

e.g., “In this section, you will learn about __________. Please ___ [do X], then [do Y]. The activities ____are optional. Finishing this section will take you around _______ minutes.”

Introduction section

☐ Learners are introduced to the course beyond the information provided in the course description

e.g., explain how to navigate the course and outline the course structure, incl. how to make the most out of the course – e.g., how to pace oneself, what the assignments will be, what’s optional vs mandatory, etc. You can also add a nice welcome video, see for example here.

☐ Optional: Forum activity

☐ Optional: ‘Feedback’ activity

Important: Kindly note our guidelines for GIZ projects on how to develop privacy compliant surveys on atingi here.

☐ If I add a feedback activity, I have read and aligned on these requirements.

If you have added activities in this section, Activity completion is set to either one of these:

☐ “Do not indicate activity completion”

☐ Condition: “Require view”

Instructional sections

One instructional section covers not more than 25 learning minutes.

Min. one of these is used:

☐ A learning package developed via the inbuilt ’H5P’ tool or via external authoring tool (e.g., authored with ADAPT) and imported as ’SCORM’

☐ Moodle ‘Lesson’ activity

☐ Moodle ‘Page’ activity with videos (incl. transcript) and descriptive text

For courses: min. two of the below activities are used (if you already offer multiple H5P/ SCORM/ Lesson or Page resources in your course, you do not need to add more instructional sections.)

☐ If a SCORM/H5P file is uploaded, it has been divided up into multiple smaller SCORM/H5P files with approximately 25 learning minutes each e.g., 1 SCORM/H5P file per module / topic covered

This is important for 1) reducing download and waiting time for learners, 2) improving reporting quality and learner completion progress.

☐ If a video or audio is uploaded, the following criteria are fulfilled:

• Transcript added
• Subtitles for videos added
• Maximum length per video is 3 minutes

Activity completion is set to:

☐ “Show activity as complete when conditions are met”

Please add one of the following conditions:

☐ Condition: “Require view”

Please only use this setting for pages or videos or other activities which do not require a grade or completion of activities.

Or

☐ any other condition depending on the type of activity

For some activities, additional requirements are available: “Quiz”: Require grade, require attempts

☐ For SCORM files, ensure that the export settings in the authoring tool align with those on the atingi platform

If it is a SCORM that contains a graded assessment, only choose ‘pass’ for the SCORM, the grade needs to be set in the authoring tool, not in atingi.

Assessment section

 Required in public and open-link library

 Assessment not required for non-public courses. If assessment is used, the completion requirements apply.

(e.g.: Quiz activity, Assignment activity, H5P including assessment, SCORM including assessment)

☐ Contains min. 1 obligatory assessment activity which appropriately tests for all taught skills and knowledge. The assessment must be passed by learners before a certificate can be issued.

The assessment can be located in an additional section in the end of the course covering all modules OR set up as individual assessments covering each single module.

Activity completion is set to one of these for each activity:

☐ “Show activity as complete when conditions are met”

Please also add one of the following conditions:

☐ Condition: “Require grade”

If you select “Require grade” there is no specification on the grade.

☐ additional Condition: “Require passing grade”

If you select “Require passing grade”, also add the respective grade under the setting section “Grades”. For example, if you require 60% correct answers, please add “6,00” under grade

☐ For graded SCORM files, ensure that the export settings in the authoring tool align with those on the atingi platform; do not set a grade in atingi – only in the authoring tool.

☐ Optional: ‘Feedback’ activity (as post-course questionnaire with learners)

Important: Kindly note our guidelines for GIZ projects on how to develop privacy compliant surveys on atingi here.

☐ If I add a feedback activity, I have read and aligned on these requirements.

Certification

Required in public and open-link library

 Not required for non-public courses. If certification is used, the completion setting requirements apply.

Custom certificates can only be designed by Category Managers; Open Badges need to be designed in consultation with the atingi Account Manager.

Please choose 1 certification format:

☐ atingi standard certificate

☐ Custom certificate

☐ Open Badge

If custom certificate:

☐ Contains the atingi logo

☐ The automatic fields for learner name, date, and verification ID have been configured

☐ For courses in Latin writing systems, the font Free Sans is used

☐ For courses with special characters (e.g., Mandarin, Vietnamese, Arabic, Ukrainian) the font Free Serif or Kozuka Mincho Pro (Japanese Serif) is used

☐ Template is named according to norm: ORG_PROJECT NAME

Access restriction for is set to:

☐ “Activity completion” > choose which activities must be marked complete (you need to select at least one instructional section and the quiz)

or

☐ “Course completed” > “Yes”

Activity completion is set only to:

☐ Do not indicate activity completion

☐ Automatic sending of the certificate is enabled

Activity and Resource Titles

☐ Activity & resources/ files are titled in a descriptive and concise manner

(e.g. not “SCORM 1” but e.g., “Cybersecurity: Password Policy”)

☐ All activities and resources are numbered in their titles if analysing course reports is important, to enable distinguishing activities easily

(e.g. in section 1, name them 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc, and for the next section 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 etc.)

References

For a best practice example, see this course: Open Educational Resources

☐ Full references are included for all external material (i.e. images, videos, tables, graphs, maps) as captions, using the following structure: Description, Source, License

(e.g. Objectives [Graphics], by GIZ, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Course completion settings

This is crucial for ensuring that your reporting works properly. After you have set up all activities, go to your course page, click on “more” and select “Course Completion”.

☐ Under “General”, the option “course is complete when ALL activities are complete” is selected

☐ Under “Condition: Activity completion” all activities that need to be completed are ticked, with exception of the certificate

Blocks

‘Blocks’ are in the grey column on the right side of your course overview.

☐ If blocks are added, their content is valuable for the learners

☐ Optional: ‘share’ block has been added
(only recommended for public courses and for learners who mainly use desktop as it’s not easily visible in mobile)

Gradebook setup

Can be accessed via the little cog wheel in the upper right > 'gradebook setup’.

If your course contains graded activities:

☐ your gradebook is set to “100” as course total

☐ and aggregation is “weighted mean of grades”