TEQSA (2013), say that CLOs should have the following characteristics:
- ✓ Define the overall scope of the course
- ✓ Provide a broad conceptual framework for the learning and teaching in a course and its constituent units
- ✓ The constituent units provide a developmental sequence of learning that results in the assessment and achievement of the CLOs
- ✓ Shows a coherent, rigorous and developmentally sound course
- ✓ The constituent units progressively develop the knowledge, skills (cognitive and technical), and the application of knowledge and skills