Quality Matters (QM) is a faculty-centered, peer review process designed to certify the quality of online courses. Quality Matters reviews are processes that can be taxing and become unsustainable for several institutions. What if QM standards could be more easily enforced during the course design and development phases? This could potentially reduce missteps that require re-design. In this paper, we propose a methodology that does exactly that. QM4Design structures the various steps of instructional design into a format where QM are explicitly re-enforced during the process.
