Build a balanced course pro forma with confidence.
CourseAlign guides you through credit allocation, learning outcomes, assessment, delivery, CLO mapping and Student Learning Time, then generates structured Table 4 documents.
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1 · What kind of course?
This sets the SLT rule. Undergraduate balances contact and independent learning evenly; postgraduate weights assessment more heavily for higher-order outcomes.
Undergraduate
Contact : Independent learning is balanced. Teaching & learning takes 70% of SLT, assessment 30%.
contact : IL = 1 : 1
Postgraduate
Weighted toward assessment. More independent study per contact hour; assessment share is larger.
contact : IL = 3 : 2
Master
PhD / Doctoral
+ More course details (for the reports)
2 · How many credits?
One credit equals 40 notional SLT hours. The system splits this into teaching, independent learning, and assessment using the rule for your course level.
3 · Course Learning Outcomes
Add each CLO, its Bloom taxonomy level, and the programme outcome (PLO) it primarily supports. These become the choices for assessments and topics.
4 · Assessments & SLT
Add each assessment with its CLO, weight, dominant type, and mode of execution. Hours are computed from the MQA SLT rules, then normalised to the assessment budget. Weights must total 100%.
Hours round to 0.5 h · cells editable
5 · Topics, weeks & delivery
Course runs over 14 weeks at — contact h/week. For each topic set the weeks it spans, tick its CLOs, then enter contact hours across F2F Physical (L/T/P/O), F2F Synchronous (L/T/P/O) and Asynchronous (O). Independent Learning is per-topic — click Suggest IL to auto-fill from the level ratio, then adjust.
6 · CLO Mapping (Items 8 & 9)
Map each CLO to Programme Learning Outcomes and MQF clusters. Teaching & Assessment methods are filled automatically from your topics and assessments.
7 · Assessment Summary
Two read-only views of the same assessment data. The first is the working breakdown used in this tool; the second matches your OBE SLT report format. Hover any ? for column help.
A
Working breakdownHow this tool structures the SLT — execution split into F2F Physical / Online / NF2F, plus preparation.
same data, OBE format ↓
B
OBE SLT report formatImplementation + Preparation, with implementation split by delivery mode. This is what appears on the official report.
8 · Review & generate
Everything is editable here. When the balance checks pass, generate the two documents.
To change any value, go back to the relevant step, edit, and click Generate again — totals stay correct.