# Assign a Course for Review

## 📌 Overview

Need someone to check your course content before it goes live? Quinn lets admins assign courses for review — separate from regular training assignments. Reviewers can go through the course in **Review Mode** without affecting their own training progress or scores. You can invite reviewers by email, by group, or by subject matter expertise, set a due date, and track each reviewer's status directly from the course detail page — or from the **Review Requests** dashboard, which shows every review request across every course in one place.

### Step 1: Open the Course Details Page

Navigate to **Courses** from the sidebar and select the course you'd like reviewed. You'll see the course header, completion stats, and the **Assigned** members table.

![Course details page showing course header, completion stats, and assigned members](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/assign-for-review_step_01.png)

### Step 2: Open the More Options Menu

Click the **⋯** (more options) button in the top-right area of the course header. A dropdown menu will appear — select **Request Review**.

![More options dropdown menu showing Request Review option](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/assign-for-review_step_02.png)

### Step 3: Select Reviewers and Set a Due Date

A modal will open where you can add reviewers. Use the **Invite by Email** tab to search and select team members, or switch to **Assign by Group Name** to add an entire group. Optionally check **Set due date** to choose a specific deadline or a number of days after assignment. Click **Request Review** to send the request — each reviewer will receive an email notification.

![Request Review modal with reviewer selected, due date enabled, and Request Review button](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/assign-for-review_step_03.png)

💡 Tip: You can set the due date as a **Specific date** or as **Days after assignment** — useful when you want a consistent turnaround time regardless of when the request is sent.

### Step 4: Track Reviewer Status

After submitting, a **Reviewers** table appears on the course detail page below the assigned members. It shows each reviewer's **Status** (**Pending**, **In progress**, or **Completed**), who assigned the review, the due date, and when it was completed. A request moves to **In progress** as soon as the reviewer starts — and to **Completed** only when they click **Mark as Reviewed** (see Step 11). Use the **⋯** button on each row to remove a reviewer if needed.

![Reviewers table showing Sam Evans with Pending status, assigned date, and due date](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/assign-for-review_step_04.png)

### Step 5: Reviewer Gets an Email Notification

Each reviewer receives a branded email from Quinn with the course name, a **Start Reviewing** button, and the due date clearly displayed. Clicking the button takes them directly to the course in review mode.

![Quinn email notification showing review request with course image, due date, and Start Reviewing button](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/assign-for-review_step_05.png)

### Step 6: Review the Course in Review Mode

Reviewers see a **Reviews Requested** section in their **Assigned to Me** view. Clicking a review opens the course with **Review Mode** enabled — they can play through the content to verify accuracy, check for errors, and provide feedback without it counting toward their own training progress. When finished, they click **Mark as Reviewed** to complete the request (see Step 11).

![Reviewer's Assigned to Me view showing Reviews Requested section and course detail with Review Mode toggle](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/assign-for-review_step_06.png)

💡 Tip: Review Mode is automatically enabled for review assignments. Reviewers can toggle it off if they want, but it's on by default so their progress and scores aren't affected.

## Track review requests across every course

The course detail page shows reviewers for one course. To see every review request in your organization — and assign new ones without opening each course — use the **Review Requests** dashboard.

### Step 7: Open the Review Requests Dashboard

Go to **Reports** in the sidebar and choose **Review Requests** from the dashboard selector. At the top you'll see five cards — **Total requests**, **Pending**, **In progress**, **Completed**, and **Past due** — followed by the **All review requests** table listing every request with its **Course**, **Reviewer**, **Assigned by**, **Status**, **Due** date, and **Last activity**.

![Review Requests dashboard showing status cards and the All review requests table](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/assign-for-review_step_07.png)

💡 Tip: Click any column header to sort. Requests whose due date has passed without being completed are highlighted in red as **Past due**.

### Step 8: Filter and Search Requests

Use the **All**, **Past due**, **Pending**, **In progress**, and **Completed** filters above the table to focus on one status, or type into **Search course, reviewer, or assigner…** to find a specific request. The table updates instantly and shows how many requests match.

### Step 9: Assign a Reviewer from the Dashboard

Click **Assign reviewer** in the top-right. A panel opens where you can search and tick one or more courses, then click **Assign N courses**. The same **Request Review** modal from Step 3 opens for each course so you can pick reviewers and set a due date.

![Assign a reviewer panel with a course selected and the Assign 1 course button](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/assign-for-review_step_08.png)

![Request Review modal opened from the dashboard with a reviewer selected and a due date set](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/assign-for-review_step_09.png)

💡 Tip: Selecting several courses at once is the fastest way to send a reviewer a batch of related courses with the same due date.

## How a request moves from Pending to Completed

### Step 10: Reviewer Starts — Status Becomes In Progress

A new request shows as **Pending**. It changes to **In progress** automatically the moment the reviewer starts: opening the course in **Review Mode**, playing the first slide, or leaving their first comment. You'll see the change in both the dashboard and the course's **Reviewers** table, along with the **Last activity** time.

![Course detail for a review request showing Review Mode enabled and the Review Course button](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/assign-for-review_step_10.png)

### Step 11: Reviewer Clicks Mark as Reviewed

While playing the course in Review Mode, the reviewer sees a **Mark as Reviewed** button in the player's control bar — it's also offered on the end-of-course screen. Clicking it shows a **Review marked as complete** confirmation and sets the request to **Completed**.

![Course player in Review Mode with the Mark as Reviewed button in the control bar](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/assign-for-review_step_11.png)

💡 Tip: Finishing the course does **not** complete a review request. Reviewers can stop on any slide and click **Mark as Reviewed** as soon as they're satisfied — or play all the way through first. Either way, the request stays **In progress** until they click the button.

### Step 12: Confirm Completion on the Dashboard

Back on the **Review Requests** dashboard, select the **Completed** filter. The request appears with a green **Completed** status and an updated **Last activity** time, and the **Completed** card count goes up.

![Review Requests dashboard filtered to Completed, showing the finished review request](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/assign-for-review_step_12.png)

## Request a review from subject matter experts

If your members have subjects set on their profile (see [Add Members](/help/add-members)), you can route a review to everyone who knows the topic instead of picking names one by one.

### Step 13: Open the Subject Matter Expert Tab

In the **Request Review** modal — from a course's **⋯** menu, the course details page, or **Assign reviewer** on the Review Requests dashboard — switch to the **Subject Matter Expert** tab. Click **Select subjects** and search for a subject.

![Request Review modal with the Subject Matter Expert tab selected](${C}/assign-for-review_step_13.png)

### Step 14: Pick Subjects to Find Reviewers

Choose one or more subjects. The **Reviewers** list fills in with every active member who is an expert in those subjects, with a count of how many will be asked. Optionally check **Set due date**, then click **Request Review** to send the request to all of them.

![Subject selected and the resulting Reviewers list](${C}/assign-for-review_step_14.png)

💡 Tip: **Request Review** stays disabled until at least one expert is found. If no one has that subject yet, add it to a member's profile first.

### Step 15: Remove or Restore an Expert

Click the **×** next to anyone you don't want to include. The count updates and a **Restore 1 removed** link appears so you can bring them back before sending.

![Reviewers list with one expert removed and a Restore link](${C}/assign-for-review_step_15.png)

## 💡 Tips

- Review assignments are **separate from training assignments** — assigning someone as a reviewer does not add the course to their training workload.

- You can assign the same person as both a learner and a reviewer on the same course — their review progress and training progress are tracked independently.

- Subject-matter reviewers are tracked exactly like any other reviewer — they appear in the course's **Reviewers** table and on the dashboard with **Pending**, **In progress**, and **Completed** status.

- Use the **Past due** filter on the Review Requests dashboard for a quick list of reviewers who need a nudge.

- To automate follow-up for unstarted reviews, check out [Automations](/help/automations) to set up reminder workflows that nudge reviewers who haven't started after a configurable time.