These are the items on which your course will be reviewed. Please use the following as a guide while developing your course.

Instructions to the Reviewer:
Your review will be a critical tool in insuring that only quality courses remain a part of the online course initiative.

1. Enter the APSU Blackboard site and navigate to the course to be reviewed.

2. Log in using the user name and password provided to each reviewer via email.

3. Select the course to be evaluated from the navigation bar at the left of the screen.

4. Review the course concerning the content and organization, including correlation with other courses in sequence, if applicable.

Once the course has been examined sufficiently the reviewer should provide recommendation for improvement and complete the assessment items below.

- Yes No a. Instructor has implemented the online course email tool and has indicated its importance in the syllabus and other places, where appropriate, within the course.

- Yes No b. Instructor has indicated the expected frequency of emails from student to instructor.

- Yes No c. The use of the online course, email, as well as other forms of class participation, is an integral part of the overall assessment of student performance.

- Yes No a. Instructor has implemented the online discussion tool and has indicated its importance in the syllabus and other places, where appropriate, within the course.

- Yes No b. Instructor has indicated the expected frequency, quality, and purpose of discussion postings from students.

- Yes No c. Discussions, as well as other forms of class participation, are an integral part of the overall assessment of student participation.

- Yes No d. Instructor communicates an intention to monitor and participate in class discussions.

- Yes No a. Instructor has implemented student projects and/or team presentations.

- Yes No b. Students are expected to review, comment, critique, or otherwise evaluate peer projects and/or presentations.

- Yes No c. Presentation of course content requires student interaction via discussion posting, interactive web page, self-quiz, glossary, or other action on the part of the student.

- Yes No a. Instructor has indicated a commitments to acknowledge, via confirmation message, all student inquiries and submissions of assignments and tests.

- Yes No b. Instructor has indicated a commitment to provide meaningful feedback to student inquiries in a timely manner.

- Yes No c. Instructor has indicated a commitment to evaluate (grade) assignments and tests in a timely manner.

- Yes No d. Instructor has indicated a commitment to apprise student of overall course performance on a regular basis, such as a mid-term progress report or grade-to-date column in the grade book.

- Yes No a. Course content is clearly organized and implemented (at some level) using one or more online course "content modules". Course content modules may be identified by their "Table of Contents" outline structure.

- Yes No b. Instructor has used a clear and reasonable timeline to facilitate achieving the course objectives and has identified regular milestones so that students may monitor their progress through the course.

- Yes No c. Instructor has implemented a realistic and comprehensive schedule of due dates and has incorporated these deadlines in the BlackBoard calendar.

- Yes No a. Public and private syllabi are complete and consistent.

- Yes No b. Course objectives are consistent with the same or similar courses taught in a traditional format.

- Yes No c. Course objectives meet standards as set by national and/or regional discipline-related professional organizations.

- Yes No d. Instructor's expectations for student performance are clearly stated.

- Yes No e. Grading criteria are clearly stated.

- Yes No f. Assessment activities, while appropriate for web-based instruction, require the same level of student achievement as traditional courses.

- Yes No g. Instructor communicates time commitment expected of students.

- Yes No h. Time commitment required of students is reasonable.

- Yes No a. Instructor provides opportunities for students to choose discussion topics, project topics, paper topics, etc. where appropriate.

- Yes No b. Instructor has provided alternate textual information for all audio/video presentations for ADA compliance.

- Yes No c. Instructor presents content for diverse learning styles where feasible and appropriate.

- Yes No d. Instructor has noted a reasonable degree of technical competencies of students and communicates these requirements.

- Yes No e. Instructor has provided links to additional web resources such as supplementary materials available to students.

- Yes No f. Instructor has made use of available public domain learning objects such as can be found at Merlot.

- Yes No g. Instructor makes effective use of online resources such as the Virtual Library.

Summary: Overall, is this course meeting the expectations of the reviewer and the University?
Yes
Yes, with minor modification (does not require a subsequent follow-up review by panel)
No, major modification, clarification, etc. are recommended (requires review by panel before hosting)

If "No, major modification", please state the primary areas for improvement and ways to assist the developer:

Best Practices
In what ways, if any, do you believe that this course represents an important innovation or advance in online education? If none, please enter N/A.