The document provides guidance on writing helpful recommendations for quality reviews of online courses. It notes that recommendations should cite applicable standards, include annotations and side notes as examples, and provide specific examples from the course along with locations and quotations. Recommendations should offer solutions rather than justifications and use positive, constructive feedback to help instructors improve by addressing weaknesses while also acknowledging strengths. Descriptive action verbs and definitions should be used when giving feedback.

1. Module 6
Quality Matters
2014

2. Components of a Helpful
Recommendation
• .

3. Standards
• Standards need to be cited for clarification to
the Instructor.

4. Annotations
• Annotations should be included also along
with side notes that the reviewers are given as
examples.

5. Course Evidence
• Give specific examples from the course also
noting location and quotations of the
problem.

6. Characteristics
• Try to offer solutions and not justify your findings.
• Instructors can better themselves with specific
examples of the corrected recommendation.
• Positive feedback from the auditor will aide in
positive results from the instructor.
• Negative feedback=Negative results.
• Show the positive parts along with the
weaknesses.
• Be constructive in your recommendations to
correct a error. Offer solutions to aide in the
instructors better delivery to their students.

7. Descriptive Feedback
• Action verbs are a great way to start in the
descriptive nature.
• Define
• Identify
• Describe
• Are some examples.

8. Helpful Recommendation
• With the response completed and checked
with the components.