Course files are a collection of a course’s documentation and is a part of the quality assurance cycle. Course files indicate the quality of a course and how education is designed. Furthermore, course files show the development of a course, is handy during course assessment and helps students and lecturers to talk about the quality of education.
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Applications of course files
- In programme committees, course files serve as a tool to bring students and lecturers together to talk about the quality of education based on factual information.
- If the programme committee notices a course is not running smoothly, they can raise an alarm based on information in course files.
- During the course assessment the assessment committee can use course files to see how education is designed within the study programme and what the quality of these courses is.
- It is a great way to monitor developments within courses.
Content of course files
The course manual, course evaluations, teacher report, assessment matrix and assessment results are always part of course files. Furthermore, it depends on your study programme and faculty what other documents to be a part of course files, for example all or some parts of the course material.
Digital course files
The digital application for storing and accessing course dossiers was discontinued as of 1 November 2025. Faculties that made use of this application (Nijmegen School of Management, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences (Communication Science only), and Radboud Teachers Academy) have organised this process in alternative ways since then.