This call is for UF instructors who are submitting self-reviews for the full UF Quality Online Course Review process.

The UF Center for Teaching Excellence supports the Pathways to Online Teaching Excellence process by helping to facilitate online course reviews. As part of this effort, UF’s Quality Assurance Committee has adopted an internal review process that adopted the Quality Matters rubric and merged it with the UF standards. The additional UF standards support quality teaching in addition to quality course design. 

You can start a course self-review in ProposalSpace at any time. In fact, many instructors and Instructional designers have already created or completed a self-review using the UF Quality Online Course Review Rubric. You can transfer the information in your existing self-review into ProposalSpace and provide additional details.

The proposal you start today can stay open and available to you as long as you like. Just don’t click submit until you are absolutely ready for reviewers to be assigned to your course.

One of the first questions you will be asked in ProposalSpace is about course contributors. Course contributors can be co-teachers, instructional designers, and teaching assistants. You can add up to 5 contributors to your self-review. We recommend adding the folks who have significantly helped in the design or teaching of the course. Contributors can add rich, valuable information to the self-review. Beware, it does not work like Google Docs. In ProposalSpace you have to decide when each person can edit the self-review.

Once you have filled in a comment box with information click the green check mark next to it. This will help make sure the information does not disappear if technology fails or the electricity goes out. Save each answer as you go but do not submit until you are ready.

It is important to give lots of rich details in your self-review. Provide narrative explanations, link to evidence in the course, and examples of practices. You know your course best, you know where the materials and evidence are in your course so do not let the reviewer guess. Provide information that will guide reviewers to the evidence in your course.

Finally, UF standards 9-11 address teaching behaviors. The evidence for these teaching behaviors and practices may be different than the evidence for other standards. You may find that samples of student work, or feedback you have given students better represents your teaching. You can also provide a narrative or short video or audio captures. There is simply a huge variety of ways you can demonstrate meeting these standards. If you are unsure or have any questions about the kinds of evidence you can provide do not hesitate to contact the Online Course Quality Team in the Center for Teaching Excellence.