• Go to https://osiris.hanze.nl/osiris_cursusinvoer/ and if necessary, log in.
• Check the ‘Submitting course information’ page and select ‘Full overview’ on the left. Turn on the search filter and look up ‘check’ in the Step column for a first check, or ‘final check’ if you are finished editing.

• Double click on the course for which you’d like to verify information
• In the next screen, click on Details under the heading ‘Course’
• You’ll be taken to a page with tabs on the left side that you can click to view and edit the information if needed. The tabs include

• Clicking on the ‘Ready’ button will take you back to the course overview page.
• If you open multiple courses from the start page at the same time, you can browse through them by using the arrows next to ‘Back’. ‘Back’ will also take you to the start page.

Approving a course

• Once the check is complete and no more changes need to be made (or if the changes have already been made), click on ‘Approve (current step)’. The information will be forwarded for processing and a second verification step (depending on internal agreements) or to the back office for confirmation.

• If the verification shows that the information is incorrect, the guidelines have not been followed, or the information has been altered by mistake, click on ‘Reject’. This will start the process to return the course to the previous step, usually to the instructor who entered the information. The reason for rejection can be specified in a text field. Whoever handled the first step will receive an automatic email message and can once again edit the information.

• The person who approved the course can then no longer make changes to it, unless the course is rejected during the verification in the next step.

• The information in an edited course can still be accessed as follows:

• Go to the ‘Full overview’ filter on the start page. Then open the search bar and search for the course.

Verification guide

Course Information
The instructor can only use Course Information to indicate whether the course is considered as contributing to one of the Hanze UAS focus areas. The remaining information here will be entered by the back office based on predefined curriculum and ECTS credit tables.

Modes of instruction
The lecturer has input rights for this information and may have made changes to it, although not all fields can be edited. At Hanze UAS, we do not use the timetable-related fields.
If the lecturer has included modes of instruction, the back office will need to add them for each block.

Examinations
The back office will enter this information based on predefined curriculum and ECTS credit tables. Neither the lecturer nor the controller can change anything in this section.

Lecturers
All lecturers involved with this course should be listed here before the new academic year. Lecturers can change this, but the controller can also add or remove names.

Materials
Depending on internal agreements, the lecturer will have entered the literature sources and other reading material here. Please be as accurate and thorough as possible when entering information. The ultimate goal is to be able to make a good estimate of the costs of taking the course.

Purpose and Content
Enter the information in the language of instruction that will be used for the course. If this section already contains text from previous years, read the text and ensure that it meets the following criteria. Fill in the field Doel (= learning outcomes of the module) for courses taught in Dutch or
the field Purpose (English) for the English-language version. Use the English field for courses taught in German.

Here is an example to help maintain uniform quality and quantity:

Content

The main goal of this Comparative Studies course is to develop the students’ competences for working in a multicultural and international environment. All professional graduates in today’s globalised world need to be aware of, and have the capacity to understand, communicate, and collaborate with people from different cultures and backgrounds.

Purpose

• Students know about their own world view from the perspective of their personal cultural background, as well as their values and attitudes toward the urban environment.

• Students know how to research a specific international city (not from their own country) in order to make comparisons with their own world view as well as with those encountered in different international cities (as researched by other class groups).

• Students know how to master particular tools and develop the skills that are needed for undertaking a comparative study of world cities that focuses on cultural, historical and governance perspectives.

Keep to the following guidelines:

1. The language style must match that of the description and learning outcomes for the programme.

2. If clear learning outcomes have been defined for the subject, these should be entered in the Purpose field. If these outcomes are described in terms of competences, use those instead.

3. Use between 40 and 150 words for the description of the subject (Content).

4. Use between 40 and 150 words for the learning outcomes of the subject (Purpose).

5. Use formal language. Do not refer to the student as you, but instead use the student or he/she. In other words, use the 3rd person singular rather than the 2nd person.

6. Do not use abbreviations unless these are in common use.

7. Avoid using too much technical jargon. Write as if the reader could be either a secondary school student or an educational expert.

8. Do not add headings like ‘purpose’ or ‘content’, as these will already be pre-entered. Other headings may be used to give structure to the text.