What Is a Collection in LeaderGuide Pro?

Overview

A Collection is the foundation of every LeaderGuide Pro implementation. It is a set of customizable templates, styles, layouts, content blocks, icons, and supporting resources that LeaderGuide Pro uses to automatically generate facilitator guides and participant guides.

Think of a Collection as the blueprint that defines how your training materials look, feel, and function.

Organizations typically customize their Collection to align with their branding, instructional design standards, facilitation methodology, and documentation requirements. Once configured, LeaderGuide Pro uses the Collection to ensure consistent formatting, structure, and content across all course materials.

Why Are Collections Important?

Collections allow organizations to standardize their training documents while reducing development time.

Instead of manually creating facilitator guides and participant guides from scratch for every course, instructional designers can use a Collection that already contains:

• Branded templates

• Content block configurations

• Instructional cues

• Style guides

• Standard introductory content

• Document structures

• Agenda formats

This ensures every course follows the same organizational standards and design framework.

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What Can Be Customized in a Collection?

A Collection in LeaderGuide Pro can customize the following components.

Cover Page

Separate cover page templates for:

• Facilitator Guides

• Participant Guides

These templates typically include branding, course information, logos, and design elements.

Acknowledgement Page

Separate acknowledgment page templates for:

• Facilitator Guides

• Participant Guides

These pages generally contain copyright information, contributor acknowledgments, legal & compliance information, revision history, or other organizational content.

Facilitator Guide Introductory Material

Each LeaderGuide Pro Collection includes standard introductory sections used in facilitator guides; these are:

• Getting Started

• Graphic Cues Page

• Program in Perspective

• Program Preparation

These sections help facilitators prepare for delivery and understand the structure of the course.

Content Blocks

Content Blocks define the instructional elements used throughout a guide.

These components can be customized to control:

• Icons

• Headline text

• Optional third-column headlines

• Screen tip labels

• Visibility of content blocks

Organizations can tailor content blocks to match their facilitation methodology and document design standards.

Content Block Bundles

Content Block Bundles are predefined groups of content blocks that can be inserted together to support common instructional patterns and workflows.

Bundles help ensure consistency while speeding up guide development.

iCues (Learning Emojis)

iCues are visual learning indicators that provide instructional and engagement cues throughout the document.

Collections can define:

• iCue icons

• Headline text

• iCue panel appearance

• My Instructional Cues group configuration

These elements help reinforce instructional intent and improve usability for facilitators and learners.

iCue Bundles

iCue Bundles combine multiple instructional cues into reusable sets that support specific learning and facilitation approaches.

LeaderGuide Pro Ribbon

The Collection also defines the LeaderGuide Pro ribbon configuration.

The ribbon can be customized to align with:

• Custom icons

• Organizational terminology

This creates a more intuitive authoring experience for course developers.

Style Guides

Each collection includes style guides that define formatting standards across all generated documents.

The style guides are:

Headers and Footers Style Guide

Standardized document headers and footers for facilitator and participant materials.

Document Style Style Guide

The document style guides allow you to standardize what fonts, sizes, spacing and other text formatting are used when you create a guidebook. There are two document style guides to choose from:

• Style Guide 1 - Traditional numbered list formatting

• Style Guide 2- Alternative numbered list formatting

Naming Conventions

Change the naming conventions for facilitator and participant guides to those of your organization.

Agenda and Audit Documents

Customize standardized templates for:

• Course agendas

• Audit documents

These templates help maintain consistency and support review processes.

Column Width Configurations

Collections define the column layouts used throughout generated documents, including:

• Lesson Pages

  • Controls the layout of lesson content, facilitation notes, and participant activities.

• Training-at-a-Glance

  • Defines the structure and spacing of Training-at-a-Glance pages and summaries.

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How Collections Benefit Your Organization

A well-designed Collection helps organizations:

• Create consistent facilitator guides and participant guides

• Maintain brand standards

• Reduce document development time

• Standardize instructional design practices

• Improve course quality and usability

• Accelerate onboarding for new instructional designers

• Ensure training materials remain aligned across programs