On Tuesday 11/08/2022, the Quality Assurance Department, in cooperation with the Quality Unit at the College of Engineering and Information Technology, held a training course on the formulation of course learning outcomes. With the participation of the Dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology, the Director of the Quality Assurance Department, program managers and members of the quality committees, in addition to faculty members in both departments. His Excellency Dr. Abdullah Al-Najim, Dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology, welcomed the attendees and stressed the importance of the course in preparing faculty members to properly formulate the learning outcomes of their courses. Then, His Excellency Dr. Bandar Al-Mutairi, Director of the Quality Assurance Department, explained the structure of the course learning output, followed by a detailed presentation of the method of entering the outputs into the electronic quality system in the colleges, and discussed some examples of courses for which outputs were formulated. At the end of the meeting, His Excellency Dr. Bandar received the inquiries of the faculty members, with an agreement to give detailed courses and workshops in this regard from the Quality Unit in the college.

Course topics:

• Identify the best methods in formulating learning outcomes.
• How to formulate course learning outcomes based on the new quality system.
• Aligning the course learning outcomes with the program outcomes based on the new quality system.

Course Objectives:

• Defining quality units and quality committees with the best methods in formulating learning outcomes.
• Defining quality units and quality committees on how to formulate course learning outcomes based on the new quality system.
• Defining quality units and quality committees on how to align course learning outcomes with program outcomes on the new quality system.

Recommendations:

• The quality unit in the college undertakes the task of training members to formulate the course outputs and align them with the program outputs.
• Program managers should define and distribute tasks to the quality committees to follow up the performance indicators of the program and prepare reports related to the program.
• Directors of academic programs must review the academic course outcomes after they are formulated.