Course leadership roles

Course Director

A Course Director is responsible for the overall design and management of the course to ensure that course design, assessment and delivery support learning outcomes and are aligned to the relevant programme graduate profile.

Detailed course director role description (UoA staff only)

Course Coordinator

A Course Coordinator for responsible for the administration and organisation of the course and its assessment acting in conjunction with, and under the supervision of, the Course Director.

Detailed course coordinator role description (UoA staff only)

Note: Director and Coordinator roles will often be combined in one person, with the Course Coordinator role here referring only to situations where the roles are separate.

Examiner

An Examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses is responsible for setting and marking course assessment(s); including the preparation of question papers, and confirming the quality and fairness of results through participation in the Examiners’ meeting.

Assessor

An Assessor for undergraduate or postgraduate taught courses is responsible for maintaining appropriate and adequate academic standards for all aspects of the assessment process, and provides an independent quality review of assessments and results. An Assessor must be appointed for any undergraduate or taught postgraduate course which has only one Examiner.

Moderator

An external Moderator for postgraduate taught work undertakes, for all or some postgraduate courses taught by an academic unit, a review of the content and grading of examination papers and/or (a sample of) other assessed work.