What CourseForge Studio Is
CourseForge Studio is a professional learning toolkit designed to help FTCC faculty build, review, and strengthen online and blended courses. It brings together institutional quality standards, instructional design frameworks, and practical planning tools in one accessible place — no login required, no institutional approval needed to explore.
Everything here is grounded in FTCC's own Course Quality Standards. The goal is to make those standards actionable rather than abstract — frameworks faculty can actually use when designing a module, reviewing an assignment, or preparing for a course quality review.
The Frameworks
CourseForge Studio is built around a connected set of frameworks. They're designed to work together, not in isolation.
Design Principles
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No friction to startNo login, no account, no gated access. A faculty member who finds this via a shared link should be able to use it immediately.
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Grounded in FTCC standardsEvery framework and rubric indicator connects back to the FTCC Course Quality Standards White Paper. This is not generic instructional design advice — it is FTCC's model.
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Tools that connectThe frameworks are designed to work together — STAGE designs the module, QUEST reviews the task, BAS checks the full sequence, the Rubric defines the destination. No tool is an island.
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Faculty judgment firstThese are planning and review aids, not compliance checklists. Every tool is designed to support professional decision-making, not replace it.
Who This Is For
Faculty building new courses
Use the Course Quality Path as your roadmap, STAGE to design each module, and QUEST to review your assessments before students ever see them.
Faculty improving existing courses
Start with the Quality Review Rubric to identify gaps, then use QUEST to audit your highest-stakes assignments.
Faculty preparing for quality review
The Quality Compliance Dashboard maps your course directly against the FTCC rubric and tracks your readiness across all 24 indicators.
Instructional designers and coordinators
Share the Course Quality Path and STAGE guide as professional development resources. All pages are public, shareable, and require no account to access.
About the Author
Angela Westmoreland, M.Ed. is an instructional designer at Fayetteville Technical Community College. She developed the STAGE, QUEST, BAS, and PACE frameworks as practical tools for the institutional context of FTCC faculty — grounded in the FTCC Course Quality Standards and built for the realities of community college teaching and course development.
CourseForge Studio is an independent professional learning resource, not an official FTCC platform. It is offered to FTCC faculty and colleagues as a public good.