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1. Prep Course for Reviews

Jason Carroll Updated by Jason Carroll

Overview

In order to ensure quality, it is essential to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of new courses before they are made available to students. This evaluation typically occurs after the course development phase and before the QA process. It holds significant value as it marks the initial opportunity for our faculty partners to assess the course content in its intended form for student consumption.

Other roles involved in the review phase include IDs, IDAs, IDDs, Creative Director, Student Experience reviewers, etc.

This article pertains to the first step in the review phase, "1. Prep Course for Reviews". This task is particularly important for IDAs. The IDA role is the most hands-on when prepping a course for review. You'll learn what the task means, why it's important, and the general process for completing prepping a course for review.

Four major steps are generally required for this Wrike task to be completed:

  1. Create review sheets
  2. Review/update the course specific style and settings tab in the eCornell Course Style and Settings Guide. If there isn't one, create it now and update it. (See the Creating a Course Style and Settings Guide article for directions.)
  3. Use the ID/A Prep for Review Checklist to ensure course is ready for review
  4. Use the templates in the Course Reviews Folder to create review sheets for all necessary stakeholders (IDD, Faculty, Tech Review)

Before you venture out to prep a course for review, it may be helpful to see how this task is represented in Wrike. Take a look at the following Wrike screenshots.

example: The course development workflow as seen in Wrike (00_Course Development Template 3.0)

example: 1. Prep Course for Reviews task within the Wrike development template

To prep for review, the IDA follows a checklist with items that correspond to the course in Canvas. Using the checklist, the IDA spends most of their time in Canvas, checking for errors and ensuring the correct standards are being followed.

The ID/A Prep for Review Checklist

Beginning in November 2025, the ID/A Prep for Review Checklist now has three tabs: one addresses the typical short course process, another is for redux/revision/updates courses, and the final addresses prepping for-credit courses for review. Much of the redundancies that were present between this workflow and the DEV to QA Handoff have been eliminated.
  1. Open the ID/A Prep for Review Checklist template. Choose the appropriate tab: short course, redux/revision/updates, or for-credit.
DO NOT EDIT THE TEMPLATE! Instead, make a copy of the template using the following steps.
  1. Make a copy of the template. Click File > Make a copy
  1. Add the course code to the Name field, to the left of "WORKING COPY ID/A Prep for Review Checklist". In the Folder section, navigate to the course's Review and Revisions subfolder.
  1. Close the template and navigate to the new copied version, now stored in the appropriate course review folder.
  2. Delete the tabs you will not be working with from your copy.
  3. Beginning at the top of the document, check all items in every row and check corresponding boxes in column A, as task items are completed.
In column D, add notes and/or issues as needed to the checklist.
  1. Update the task in Wrike after the prep review task is completed.
    1. Change status to "Ready for Review"
    2. In the Description field, link the completed checklist sheet to the Wrike task.
    3. Tag the ID in the comment field.

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5. Review - Wrike Task Definitions

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