When you submit a course, you will receive an email confirmation that your course
has been submitted and will next enter the screening process. If your course is found
to pass screening, you will receive another email confirmation alerting you of the
course moving forward and its assignment to ambassadors for review. If your course
does not pass screening, you will receive an email with a PDF that identifies anything
that may need corrections before the course is accepted for the next step of the process.
Once corrections have been made, you will use the same Instructor Worksheet from the
same D&D workbook to resubmit the course.
Each course that is submitted goes through an extensive screening process during which
vital components of a course are identified. If at any time during the screening,
the course needs corrections, the course is returned to the faculty member. Once corrections
have been made to the course, you will use the same Instructor Worksheet from the
same D&D workbook to resubmit the course. At this point, the course will undergo the
same screening process.
After a course has been through the screening process and vital components have been
identified as acceptable, the course is assigned to eLearning Ambassadors to formally
evaluate the course using the CAP rubric. The course is assigned to a review cycle
that falls within a particular time frame for all Ambassadors to complete the review.
The QM@S Review Team has 12, one-week cycles during the Fall and Spring semesters
and 8, one-week cycles during the Summer semester. The time it takes to complete a
review has many factors that make it very difficult to anticipate a date. Each course
review for varies and can take anywhere from two to eight hours to complete. It depends
on the number of courses ahead of one in the queue and the number of courses that
are already assigned. If your course is accepted for a review, it will be completed
by the end of the last cycle of the semester or before.
If you need a course to go through QM@S certification process, it is recommended to
plan at least one semester in advance of submitting for a QM@S review. If the course
does not pass, you will need time to make corrections and try again. Ideally, you
will submit your course for a QM@S review as soon as you complete designing the course.
Southeastern Online places importance on keeping up with the most current theories
and best practices in teaching. Therefore, the Teaching Online at Southeastern course
is updated every year to reflect the most current teaching strategies. There are new
technologies and updates to our current technologies that require additional training.
The Distance Education policy states that this course must be completed by all faculty teaching or planning to
teach using hybrid or online modalities. SACSCOC’s Distance Education and Correspondence Courses policy also requires the university to have faculty teaching online and hybrid courses complete
a training specific for their needs.
You will only need to complete the Teaching Online at Southeastern course every three
years. A new, updated version of the course is available each year in the Learning
Management System, and you are welcome to complete it for the most up-to-date information.
The course is set as a self-enrolled course in our LMS. Re-certification is only required
every three years.
If you have done a self-evaluation of the course using the QM@S rubric and feel it
is ready, you can submit your course as soon as you would like to do so. You should
get feedback from an Instructional Design Specialist at Southeastern Online. This
can be done while teaching the course the first semester. At the beginning of your
second semester teaching, you will submit the course to give yourself and the QM@S
Review team time for the review. We encourage faculty to design the course while following the rubric and earning
a QM@S certification as soon as possible and we the team at Southeastern Online is
here to help you through course development and design.
If your course has not earned certification by the end of the second semester being
taught, you will teach the course face-to-face until a QM@S approval has been earned.