How Coursensu helps higher education institutions to get high TEF ratings

Coursensu helps institutions embed quality, inclusion, and educational gain into every course—supporting your strategy and strengthening your TEF outcomes.

Evidence-rich learning design tools aligned with TEF indicators

In-platform support that improves course quality at scale

Actionable insights across all student groups and teaching modes

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1. Evidence-Informed Learning Design

TEF emphasises the importance of demonstrating impactful teaching and learning with clear evidence of effectiveness across all student groups and course types (including apprenticeships, TNE, and validated courses).‍

Coursensu supports this by:

Providing structured learning design tools that document pedagogical decisions.
Generating transparent evidence trails showing how designs align with outcomes.
Allowing teams to capture and analyse educational gains, including skills, engagement, and work readiness.

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2. Improving Student Experience

TEF requires evidence of excellent student experience across teaching, learning support, assessment, and engagement.

‍Coursensu’s Course Companion:

Offers real-time feedback loops inside the LMS.
Guides educators on improving inclusive practice and active learning.
Surfaces LMS data to highlight disengagement, helping staff act early.

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3. Driving Student Outcomes

TEF judges success based on student outcomes and educational gains, not just progression and completion.

Coursensu helps teams:

Design targeted interventions for underrepresented or struggling learners.
Embed career readiness and skills development into course design.
Collect and evidence learner progress against personalised goals.

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4. Support for TEF Submissions

TEF submissions require evidence of the provider’s strategic intent, learner context, and impact.

With Coursensu you will get more:

Visual indicators showing how course designs map to strategy and mission.
Richer data-informed storytelling with visual evidence of the source for course quality.
Tools to capture and present improvement over time.

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5. Collaboration and Inclusion

Coursensu supports collaborative design and review, aligning with TEF’s focus on:

Partnership with students in course quality enhancement.
Inclusive practices tailored to diverse learner groups.
Transparent processes that span academic and professional services.

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Frequently Asked Questions

See below for our responses to regular queries. If your question isn't listed, please contact us.

What does Coursensu provide that can provide clear, credible evidence for a TEF submission?

Coursensu gives you structured tools to document learning design decisions, inclusive practices, and course enhancements that are aligned with TEF criteria and ready to inform your provider submission.

How can learning design strengthen our TEF submission?

Coursensu enables you to design and deliver pedagogically sound, inclusive learning with support from AI, templates, and expert-informed models which can all contribute to clear, demonstrable teaching quality.

What can we do with Coursensu to improve our student experience scores, like the NSS?

Coursensu helps you by embedding best practice directly into the design and continuous improvement process and providing Course Companion insights inside your LMS, allowing staff to identify, and address, potential issues before they affect the student experience (and survey outcomes).

How can we use learning design to contribute to our TEF submission for maximum impact?

Coursensu supports you to build a compelling submission by surfacing evidence from course designs, educator activity, and outcomes that are all aligned with TEF’s required structure and themes.

How can we add Coursensu data as supplement TEF indicators?

Use Course Companion and Team data dashboards to present engagement trends, design improvements, and other internal quality signals that add valuable context to the official metrics.

How can we involve students meaningfully during learning design for use in the TEF process?

Coursensu's Learning Designer provides a single shared workspace for collaborative course design and co-creation workflows that give students a voice, as part of your quality improvement processes. This helps to show active student partnership in shaping the future of your learning experiences.

How do we use learning design to show continuous improvement, not just one-off success stories?

We provide a visible trail of iterative changes, quality enhancements, and collaborative updates — providing clear evidence that improvement is embedded and sustainable.

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Learning Designer - a visual collaborative storyboard platform for all stakeholders.
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