If you check only one thing in a course review, check alignment. A well-aligned course has a clear line running through it: the learning outcomes say where students are going, the assessments measure whether they got there, and the activities and materials build the skills the assessments require. When those three line up, the course makes sense and students can succeed by doing the work.

Misalignment is the most common and most damaging quality problem. An assessment that tests something never taught, an activity that serves no outcome, an outcome with nothing that measures it, each one quietly undermines the course. Tracing the line from each outcome to its assessment to its supporting activities is the core move of a quality review.