Who are instructional designers,  and what is their role with the course design,  build, and review process?  Instructional designers, or IDs, collaborate with faculty to create engaging, outcome driven, and student-centered  courses using research-based learning and design principles. Instructional designers are student advocates  by ensuring course content, learning activities, and assessments  align with course objectives and goals. Instructional designers also ensure that learning technologies and content selected  are accessible for all learners. The IDLT Teaching Toolkit provides resources used by  instructional designers at SIUE  to support faculty and students. These resources will be utilized as the faculty and ID work through the three-step course design,  build, and review process. In step one, faculty and instructional  designer meet and work begins on the course planning grid. The purpose of this meeting is for the ID to learn about the course, its goals, and the source of the content.  The ID will also collaborate with the faculty member to demonstrate how to complete the course planning grid and established roles and timelines for the course builds and peer review. Step two is the course build process. After the completion of the course planning grid. The ID uses it to begin building the course in Blackboard using an iterative approach. As  the subject matter expert and providing the content,  the subject matter expert and providing the content, the faculty member givces feedback  on the development as the course is being built.  Collaboration between faculty and the ID is ongoing throughout the process. To reach defined project milestones, communication must remain consistent. Step three is quality review. After the course has been built,  the final step is to utilize  a quality review instrument to evaluate the course design.  This includes a self-review from the faculty, an ID review, and a peer review.  The ID will work with the faculty member  to interpret evaluation results from these reviews and plan for a revision before content is ready for students. 
