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Free Module Credit Hour Calculator

Calculate contact hours vs independent study workloads required to satisfy regional and national accreditation credit hour criteria — for any number of modules.

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Credit Hour Standard
Modules

Add each module with its credit value and contact hour types.

Add modules and click Calculate Workload to generate the credit hour breakdown.

How to Calculate Credit Hours in 3 Steps

Follow these steps to get results in under a minute

01
Select accreditation standard
Choose from US Credit Hour (Carnegie Unit), ECTS (European Credit Transfer), UK CAT, or define a custom ratio. Set the semester length in weeks — the tool uses this to compute weekly workload from total contact hours.
02
Add modules with credits and hours
Add each module with its credit value and weekly contact hours (lecture, lab, tutorial). The tool calculates total contact hours, independent study hours, and total student workload per module.
03
Review compliance and print the report
See whether each module meets the accreditation standard's credit hour ratio. A compliance indicator flags modules that are over or under the required hours. Print the full breakdown for quality assurance submissions.

How Credit Hour Calculator Compares

vs spreadsheets, manual processes, and paid platforms

Feature UniCloud360 Credit Hour Calculator Manual SpreadsheetQA Office EstimatePaid Curriculum System
US, ECTS, UK CAT standards All 3 + custom One standard ⚠️ Manual calculation ⚠️ Config required
Per-module compliance check Auto-flagged ⚠️ Manual formula No check ⚠️ Admin report
Lecture + lab + tutorial split Detailed mode Aggregate only ⚠️ Manual split ⚠️ Separate field
Weekly workload per module Auto-computed Manual division Not shown ⚠️ Dashboard only
Print-ready QA report One-click ⚠️ Manual formatting No ⚠️ Scheduled export
Cost Free forever ⚠️ Manual effort ⚠️ Expertise needed Paid system

What Academic Planning Teams Are Saying

Trusted by lecturers and students across Sri Lankan universities

4.9
★★★★★
4 reviews
SM
Dr. Sarah Mitchell
Curriculum Quality Officer
★★★★★

"We validate credit hour compliance for 120+ modules before each reaccreditation. This tool replaces a spreadsheet that would take two staff members a day — now any quality coordinator can run the full check in 20 minutes."

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James Okafor
Academic Planning Coordinator
★★★★★

"The ECTS mode is exactly right for our partner institutions in Europe. Being able to switch between US credits and ECTS without rebuilding the calculation has made our articulation agreements much easier to manage."

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Priya Nair
Module Leader, Engineering Faculty
★★★★★

"The detailed breakdown — lecture, lab, tutorial — is what our faculty board specifically requests. Previously I had to build this manually in Excel for every module review. The print report goes straight into the accreditation portfolio."

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Carlos Rivera
Deputy Dean, Academic Affairs
★★★★☆

"The compliance indicator flagging over and under-loaded modules was the insight we needed. Three modules in our engineering programme were significantly under the required contact hours — something our spreadsheet had missed for two years."