It also recommended the creation of new ways to assess students and "greater consistency" across operations.
At the time, GSA director Penny Macbeth said leaders were committed to providing "the best creative education and high-level art school experience".
Now Masters students will use the QAA's findings to back up their "pause or repay" calls. A crowdfunder is to be launched on the crowdjustice website tomorrow and artworks will be auctioned to pay for legal support.
In a statement, the students said they had "no contact from our tutors for 10 weeks whilst other universities like the University of Glasgow were tutoring students online within a few weeks", had "no way of making work" in their bedrooms, and "missed out on the chance to meet curators, galleries, and art-dealers – a pivotal moment for progression into the art world and another key reason for studying at GSA".