How to Start Working in your new Instructional Design Document

Work logically through the instructional document template from start to finish.

The template ensures consistency. The key sections to complete in order are:

• Analysis Summary

• Instructional Analysis

• Instructional Strategies

• Course Sequencing & Structure

Use the buttons on the Learning Design Tool ribbon to automate your work.

The ribbon buttons:

1. Automate key tasks to save you time, and

2. Ensure that you design is instructionally sound.

Your new design document will initially contain 7 pages.

1. Cover page

2. Acknowledgements page

3. Table of Contents

4. Content Analysis Page - with placeholders for

   • Key information from your Analysis phase

   • Click Import Analysis Data on the Learning Design Tool ribbon to import information from another Word file

5. Instructional Analysis Page - with placeholders for

   • Prerequisites for Course Entry - type this in

   • Course Goal - type this in

   • Terminal and Enabling Learning Objectives - Click Learning Hierarchy on the Learning Design Tool ribbon to add your learning objectives 

6. Instructional Strategies Page - with placeholders for

   • Delivery Format - type this in

   • Adult Learning Strategies - type this in

   • Learner Achievement Activities - Click Learner Achievement to add learner achievement activity types for each learning objective

   • Evaluation Plan - type this in

7. Course Structure and Sequencing Page - with a placeholder for

   • Detailed Course Outline - Click Course Structure to generate a course outline based on your terminal objectives, which become modules, and your enabling objectives, which become lessons