Quality Matters Rubrics is a faculty-centered, peer review process designed to certify the quality of online and blended courses. This peer based approach to evaluating courses is research supported and promotes best practice quality standards and procedures to assure continuous improvement in online education and student learning. Quality Matters is a subscription resource commonly used by higher education institutions. 

One critical elements used to evaluate online course standards is peer-review. It's important that Instructional Designers not only identify and incorporate the standards and procedures for developing quality eLearning, but that they also incorporate the peer-review process to evaluate their course. elearning.typepad.com has published a PDF that outlines the Criteria for Evaluating the Quality of Online Courses.  

Using a few recommendations from the above mention resources, along with what I've learned from the USMX LDT 100x, 200x, 300x courses and from the Instructional Design Company, I've developed this eLearning Course Rubric. Click the button "Download Rubric" to review. 

While rubrics main purpose is to assess performances, a scorecard differs as it provides an itemized list of course criteria to help track implementation of the course. Scorecards help to ensure a course has the right measures implemented and are consciously and purposefully constructed. I built this scorecard to identify what should be measured in the "Collaborate in the Cloud" course to emphasize the right balance of operational and strategic factors that are included in the course overview, course design and accessibility, content - activities - interactivity, technology and assessment and feedback.