Checklist: Course information for freestanding courses
It is important that information about freestanding courses is filled in in a clear way so that as many as possible can find and want to apply to KTH's courses. When prospective students are looking for freestanding courses to apply to, they find information about the course under the course's web page in the Course and programme directory, also called About course. Here you will find how to fill in or update course information for a freestanding course.
About course is KTH's official place for course information
The course's web page in the Course and programme directory, also called About course, is the place applicants are linked to from universityadmissions.se , among other places. This is KTH's official site for course information and it is important that all information about the course is filled in. If course information is missing, it is more difficult for a prospective student to make an informed choice.
On this page we have briefly summarised course information that is important to fill in and tips on how to do it well. This information is aimed at course coordinators, examiners, educational administrators and others who write and publish course information.
Checklist: Three steps to great course information
1. Short course description and image
The course description is the most important thing to fill in. It is what visitors first encounter on the About course page. On some external education websites that collect courses, the course description also appears. It should be a concise description of what the course is about and what you will learn. You could also add something about how the knowledge gained relates to the industry or career development.
The description is recommended to be short, around 3 sentences long. It is possible to add longer text if necessary, for example for advanced or niche courses where the content needs to be explained in more depth.
It is also great to add a course image to give a sense of what the course is about. If you don't have your own image, there is a collection of images for freestanding courses in OneDrive here:
Images for freestanding courses (OneDrive)
All images in the folder are completely free to use directly for About course, without attribution.
How and where do I update?
Descriptions and images are uploaded by the course coordinator, examiner or other person with access to About course (for example a communications officer at your school, access needs to be requested by UA) via "Administer About course" and the "Course introduction" function. The information can be updated at any time via the Administer About course tool.
2. Keywords used to search on universityadmissions.se
Don't miss to fill in relevant keywords for the course! This will help those interested to find the course via search on universityadmissions.se. Filling in relevant keywords will increase the number of potential students who can find the course. Maximum 15 keywords per course.
The keywords should be words that you think applicants might use to find the course or the subject of the course. For example, it may be useful to include trendy words or industry terms related to the course topic. If the course is aimed at specific professions or job titles, these may be relevant keywords to include.
How and where do I update?
Keywords are entered into Kopps and updates can be made by someone with access to the system, such as an educational administrator at your school.
3. Other course information
You can edit the heading Course disposition via the About course administraion tool. Under this heading you can give an overview of how the teaching is organised, unlike the course description where you describe the content of the course. We also recommend that you describe whether the course is taught on-campus or via distance learning. For professionals, it is useful to know whether the course is taught physically, completely online or perhaps a hybrid solution. If the course is taught primarily online with occasional campus meet-ups, it is important to describe that. Also describe how the course is taught, for example lectures interspersed with exercises and seminars.
The course page also contains information retrieved from the system Kopps. Make sure that the information under all headings on the page is up to date or needs to be updated. Consider whether everything that is important to know about the course appears on the page.
Is your course 100% distance learning?
If your course is taught with 100% distance learning, don't forget that it is possible to enter 0 mandatory meetings in Ladok. If you do, the course will appear in even more search results on universityadmissions.se, because the course will then appear if you filter on "Only distance courses without required meetings". This is filled in by the schools in the Excel-file for upcoming courses sent to the management office every semester.
Complete all headings
It is important to fill in information under all headings. If information under a heading is not entered, it will say "No information inserted". If a heading is not relevant, for example Literature, it is better to fill in "The course does not require any course literature", "You will receive course literature at the start of the course" or something similar.
How and where do I update?
Updating course information retrieved from Kopps can be made by someone with access to the system Kopps, such as an education administrator at your school.
The headings Course disposition and Supplementary information can be edited directly via the About course administration tool.