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Course Review Ops About 30–40 min ← All modules

Elective 1

Course Review Ops

Course outcome 6Focus: sensitive content and blast radius

By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:

  1. Design a Course Review Ops runbook with roles, sequence, gates, and risk controls for a dual-platform or multi-surface review workflow.
  2. Specify a review brief that separates a quick inventory pass from a deep review, with a comment-approval gate.
  3. Apply risk controls for sensitive learner or content data and for blast radius.

How you’ll show it: your review brief and runbook (download). Course outcome 6 of 6

What good looks like

This is the bar each part needs to reach (Meets). You’ll get feedback on each part when you check your work.

  • Review scope: what’s under review, specifically (40+ characters).
  • Inventory vs. deep review: which parts get a quick inventory pass and which get a deep review.
  • Comment-approval gate: who approves comments, when, and what’s blocked until they do.
  • Roles and steps: at least 2 roles with their own jobs, and 3+ steps that end with an approved comment or shared review artifact.
  • Risk controls: cover both sensitive content and blast radius (how far a mistake could spread).

How you pass: every part at Meets or better.

The automatic check looks for a few signals of these. It can’t judge quality, so aim for the description, not the keywords.

Plan how agents and people review a course together. You’ll decide what gets a quick inventory pass and what gets a deep review, and who approves comments before anything is published.

Big question When is one agent enough, and when do you need a council?

Good fit if: you run or coordinate course reviews with SMEs and want agents to take the first pass safely.

How this pattern works

Course Review Ops splits a review into two passes and puts a person in charge of what gets said.

  • Inventory pass: an agent checks every module quickly against a checklist (links, alt text, outdated screenshots).
  • Deep review: a closer look at the few modules that matter most, like the ones with the most learners or the most recent changes.
  • Comment-approval gate: agents draft review comments, but a human approves each one before it reaches the course owner.
  • Why: agents are fast and thorough, but a wrong or harsh comment can damage trust. The gate keeps a person accountable for what’s said.

Runbook anatomy

Every elective produces a runbook: a short document a team can follow without you in the room. It always has four parts, in this order.

  1. Roles: who does what. Include at least one agent and one human who approves.
  2. Sequence: the numbered steps from the trigger to where the finished work is saved.
  3. Gates: checkpoints that stop the work until someone approves. Each gate says who checks, when, and what it blocks.
  4. Risk controls: what could go wrong (sensitive data, blast radius, failure) and how you’ll prevent or contain it.
See an annotated example runbook (template)

Scenario: a quarterly accessibility review of a help-center course. It’s different from your task, so borrow the structure.

Roles
A11y Audit Bot: checks every lesson against the accessibility checklist. Content Lead (human): approves every comment before it’s shared. One agent, one human approver.
Sequence
1. Audit Bot runs an inventory pass on all 12 lessons. 2. It runs a deep review on the 3 lessons with the most learners. 3. Draft comments go into the a11y_review.md file. 4. Content Lead approves or rejects each comment. 5. Approved comments are sent to the course owner. Starts at a trigger, ends where the work is saved.
Gate
Who: Content Lead. When: before any comment leaves a11y_review.md. Blocks: unapproved comments from being sent. Who, when, and what it blocks.
Risk controls
Redact learner names from any quoted feedback. Limit the blast radius to comments only; the bot never edits lessons. If the audit fails partway, the Lead reruns only the unfinished lessons. Sensitive data, blast radius, and failure.
Stuck? See sentence starters
  • Scope: “All modules in the ___ course, focusing on ___.”
  • Inventory vs. deep: “An inventory pass on every module for ___; a deep review on ___ because ___.”
  • Risk controls: “Redact ___ before sharing. Limit the blast radius to ___. If ___ fails, ___.”

Your project: review brief + runbook

Step 1 of 3 Scope the review

Review brief
What’s under review? 40+ characters.
Which parts get a quick inventory pass, and which get a deep review? Use both words.

Step 2 of 3 Add the approval gate

Comment-approval gate

Step 3 of 3 Write the runbook

Roles (at least 2)
Steps (at least 3)

Walk through start to finish, ending with an approved comment or a shared review artifact.

Cover sensitive content and blast radius (how far a mistake could spread). 40+ characters.

Tip: Feedback is automatic. It looks for specific details, like a number, a named owner, or a “when”. It’s a quick check, not a grade.

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