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Welcome
Welcome to the Skills4EOSC Quality Compass, the app that helps you in making your courses compliant with the Skills4EOSC Quality Assurance Framework. In our mission of ensuring quality in the full life-cycle of training in Open Science, we have produced two main outputs that will guide you in taking your learning resources to the next level: the QA Checklist & Guide and the Skills4EOSC Quality Self-assessment Test.
By following our guidelines, you will ensure the integration of the FAIR-by-design methodology, the Minimum Viable Skillsets model, key Ethical and Legal aspects and other e-learning quality criteria in your Open Science course.
At which stage of designing your course are you?
First stage of designing your course
The Skills4EOSC QA Checklist & Guide is an interactive infography that covers the main aspects and indicators of our QA Framework. It aims to help you in making your learning resource compliant during its first stages of design and planification, while introducing the framework in a visual and user-friendly way. It also serves as a more easy-to-read complement to the deliverable (you can find the deliverable below in 'Other outputs').
Last stage of designing your course
The S4E Quality Self-assessment Test
The Skills4EOSC Quality Self-assessment Test covers all indicators from the Skills4EOSC Quality Assurance Framework. By answering its questions, you will get a report on your course compliance with the framework. This report provides scores by section and by subframework and recommendations on how to improve your learning materials. You can find the test in the sidebar menu
Other Outputs related
If you want to know more about how the Skills4EOSC Quality Assurance Framework was developed was built, here are some resources regarding our work and other related project's outputs:
- Skills4EOSC Quality Compass App: Improving your Open Science training course (booklet)
- D2.7 Community-endorsed quality assurance and certification framework for professional training and qualifications - final version
- D2.6 Catalogue of OS career profiles and MVS - update
- FAIR-by-Design Learning Materials Methodology Training of Trainers
Self-assessment test intro
Self-assessment test intro section
Self-assessment test
The Skills4EOSC Quality self-assessment test covers all indicators from the Skills4EOSC Quality Assurance Framework. During the test, you will navigate through 5 sections: Background Information, Content and Structure, Implementation, Evaluation and Licensing and Ethics. In addition to answering the questions, we encourage you to provide any comments or doubts you may have about a question. Just click on the flag next to each question, write your comments and send them.
After submitting your answers, you will get a report on your course compliance with our quality framework. This report provides your scores by section and by subframework and recommendations on how to improve your learning materials.
Regarding personal data collection, you don't need to provide any personal information you don't wish to be stored. You will still receive your report and results regardless of providing personal information. Any information you decide to provide together with and your answers and feedback will be store for research purposes and to keep improving the tool. For more information about this, visit our Privacy Policy page in the sidebar menu
S4E Quality Self-assessment
Your Course Quality Report
This panel shows your overall maturity level as a value box.
Self-assessment results page
Your course maturity level
Your course maturity level
Visualizing your score
How can you improve the quality of your course?
Your Answers
Introduction to General Feedback Survey
General feedback survey intro section
General Feedback survey
One of the core goals of the Skills4EOSC project is to support the development of high-quality, FAIR, and community-aligned learning materials for Open Science. To do this, we created the Skills4EOSC Quality Assurance Framework (QAF)—a practical reference tool designed to guide trainers, course creators, and instructional designers through essential quality indicators for building and evaluating Open Science learning materials.
To make the framework more usable and adaptable, we’ve built two main tools:
- the Checklist & Guide for planning during the course design phase,
- and the S4E Quality Compass app, a self-assessment tool for reviewing completed materials.
As part of our commitment to continuous improvement, we are collecting feedback from real users like you. Your experience, opinions, and ideas are key to making the QAF even more effective, practical, and user-friendly.
This short survey will help us better understand how the QAF is being used, how helpful it has been in supporting your work, and what can be done to improve it. Your input will contribute directly to future updates of both the framework and the related tools. You do not need to provide any personal information.
Thank you for helping us strengthen Open Science training through better tools and shared practices!