Instructors interested in submitting an online course for review can enroll in the Canvas site, UT’s Engaged Online Course Review. The site contains a link to the EOC review application and other important materials.

Enroll in the UT’s Engaged Online Course Review  course (https://ut.pdx.catalog.canvaslms.com/browse/olap/courses/ut-engaged-online-course-review). Select “Enroll Now” and log in with your UTK NetID and password. Do not create a guest account.  

Enrolled participants can access the site via the Canvas Catalog beginning on October 26, 2023: https://oithost.utk.edu/canvas-catalog/html/

Provide valuable feedback to your colleagues by serving as an Engaged Online Course (EOC) peer reviewer. Reviewers promote and enhance campus wide standards that address quality online course design and development. UT Faculty and staff interested in registering as an EOC Peer Reviewer can enroll in the Canvas site, UT’s Engaged Online Course Review. The site contains a link to the registration form and details about what peer reviewers can expect when serving on an EOC review team.

Enroll in the UT’s Engaged Online Course Review  course (https://ut.pdx.catalog.canvaslms.com/browse/olap/courses/ut-engaged-online-course-review). Select “Enroll Now” and log in with your UTK NetID and password. Do not create a guest account.  

Enrolled participants can access the site via the Canvas Catalog beginning on October 26, 2023: https://oithost.utk.edu/canvas-catalog/html/

Instructors are encouraged to download and review the EOC checklist in order to become familiar with the rubric’s guidelines and seven general standards. In the annotated rubric each of the general standards is expanded to include a full annotation with examples. These details can help determine whether a particular standard has been met, has not been met or is not applicable, due to the course content, curriculum, or discipline. 

Faculty can benefit from conducting small-scale reviews of their online courses, selecting specific course components to evaluate, or focusing on one or two standards and the accompanying criteria. For example, Standard 4 – Learner Engagement, addresses specific communication and engagement practices that, when implemented in the design and delivery of an online course, support Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI). Instructors may choose to conduct an RSI audit of their online courses using the Standard 4 criteria and guidelines.

Departments are free to adopt and modify any portion of the EOC rubric checklist in support of quality online teaching and course development. 

Instructors can use the EOCR checklist or the fully Annotated EOC Rubric to self-assess the quality of an online course. For a chance to experience with the Quality Matters Review tool, instructors can conduct a more formal self-assessment using the Self-Review Tool in Quality Matters (QM). The UTK Engaged Online Course Rubric has been pre-loaded into the QM self-review tool, where instructors can access the full annotations and examples for each of the general standards.  

To access the Self-Review tool in QM, log into MyQM (Quality Matters website): https://www.qmprogram.org/myqm/  If you have previously created an account in Quality Matters, log in with your email address. To create an account for the first time, select “No, I am new here” at the sign in page.  Since UT is a member of QM, UT employees are eligible to create an account. Once you are logged into QM, select MyCR, and then “Start a Self Review.”