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Evaluating Your Course for Quality
A practical course on reviewing your own course for quality: alignment, clarity, assessment, accessibility, and engagement, with an online deep-dive lesson. It teaches the shared principles behind frameworks like Quality Matters and OSCQR and points you to them for formal review. Free to read. Sign in with Google to take it in order and earn a certificate at 85 percent on the final quiz.
What you’ll be able to do by the end
This course begins with its own outcomes. By the end, you will be able to:
- Explain what course quality means and how a structured review works.
- Evaluate the alignment of outcomes, assessments, and materials.
- Judge the clarity, organization, and usability of a course.
- Review assessment design and academic integrity in a course.
- Check accessibility and plan ongoing improvement.
- Apply added quality checks specific to online courses.
Lessons
What the course covers
Lesson 1
What course quality means, and how to review
Lesson 2
Alignment: the heart of quality
Lesson 3
Clarity, organization, and usability
Lesson 4
Assessment, feedback, and integrity
Lesson 5