abstract: Academia is not what it used to be. In today’s fast-paced world, requirements are constantly changing, and adapting to these changes in an academic curriculum can be challenging. Given a specific aspect of a domain, there can be various levels of proficiency that can be achieved by the students. Considering the wide array of needs, diverse groups need customized course curriculum. The need for having an archetype to design a course focusing on the outcomes paved the way for Outcome-based Education (OBE). OBE focuses on the outcomes as opposed to the traditional way of following a process [23]. According to D. Clark, the major reason for the creation of Bloom’s taxonomy was not only to stimulate and inspire a higher quality of thinking in academia – incorporating not just the basic fact-learning and application, but also to evaluate and analyze on the facts and its applications [7]. Instructional Module Development System (IMODS) is the culmination of both these models – Bloom’s Taxonomy and OBE. It is an open-source web-based software that has been developed on the principles of OBE and Bloom’s Taxonomy. It guides an instructor, step-by-step, through an outcomes-based process as they define the learning objectives, the content to be covered and develop an instruction and assessment plan. The tool also provides the user with a repository of techniques based on the choices made by them regarding the level of learning while defining the objectives. This helps in maintaining alignment among all the components of the course design. The tool also generates documentation to support the course design and provide feedback when the course is lacking in certain aspects. It is not just enough to come up with a model that theoretically facilitates effective result-oriented course design. There should be facts, experiments and proof that any model succeeds in achieving what it aims to achieve. And thus, there are two research objectives of this thesis: (i) design a feature for course design feedback and evaluate its effectiveness; (ii) evaluate the usefulness of a tool like IMODS on various aspects – (a) the effectiveness of the tool in educating instructors on OBE; (b) the effectiveness of the tool in providing appropriate and efficient pedagogy and assessment techniques; (c) the effectiveness of the tool in building the learning objectives; (d) effectiveness of the tool in document generation; (e) Usability of the tool; (f) the effectiveness of OBE on course design and expected student outcomes. The thesis presents a detailed algorithm for course design feedback, its pseudocode, a description and proof of the correctness of the feature, methods used for evaluation of the tool, experiments for evaluation and analysis of the obtained results. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Software Engineering 2018