Module 1: Instructional Design Customizations
Customizing the Learner Achievement Activities
After you add your Terminal and Enabling learning objectives, you will move to the Instructional Strategies part of your design, and this is where you will be prompted to add your Learner Achievement Activities.
Learner Achievement Activities are the exercises, tests, activities and various other spheres of action that you will use to prove a learner has accomplished the goals set out for them as defined by your learning objectives.
The Learning Design Tool includes a set of default Learner Achievement Activities that you can easily edit. To begin:
Click Customize on the Learning Design Tool ribbon
Select Learner Achievement Activities
Use the Customize Learner Achievement Activities dialog box to edit and add your activities
Scroll down for detailed guidance
About Learner Achievement Activities
The Principles of Adult Learning provide the framework for building achievement activities.
That framework should be evident in:
how the activities are administered and
how feedback is processed, delivered, and internalized by the learner.
More than simple tests
Learner Achievement activities:
Are not just simple ad hoc knowledge checks or participative exercises and assessments.
Are well crafted learner-centered activities:
that clearly demonstrate to the organization and the learner
that the expected level of personal accomplishment has been achieved.
A properly constructed Learner Achievement Activity is:
Focused
Relevant
Timely
Problem-Centered & Participative
When they are run
Achievement activities can be run:
at the end of a terminal objective instructional unit, such as the end of a module
as a last activity in a lesson that is teaching to an enabling objective
as a combined "master" assignment at the end of the course (instructional event)
at some period of time after the learning event has taken place.
About the Customize Learner Achievement Activities dialog box
Important
Please do not copy & paste from Word into this dialog box.
Instead, we recommend that you:
Write your Learner Achievement Activity descriptions in Word
Then copy and paste them into Notepad
Then copy and paste from Notepad into the description textboxes for the Activity Description and Feedback Description.
Reusable
What you write here is stored permanently.
Thus it is important to have well-written descriptions about the activities and how feedback is handled.
The Learner Achievement Activities you enter into this form will auto-populate into the Learner Achievement Activity section of your design document when selected from the pulldown menu.
Customize Learner Achievement Activities
To add a Learner Achievement Activity
Select a Learning Level
Click on an activity title in the box below the Learning Level
Click Unselect to clear the text in the Activity Title Editing Pane
Make your edits in the Editing Panes for the:
Activity Title
Activity Description
Feedback Description
Click Add
NOTE:
All new Learner Achievement Activities that you add are placed at the bottom of the list
To adjust an Activity’s location in the list
Select it
Use Move Up or Move Down
To edit a Learner Achievement Activity
Select a Learning Level
Click on an activity title in the box below the Learning Level
Make your edits in the Editing Panes for the:
Activity Title
Activity Description
Feedback Description
Click Update
Ordering the List
Your list can be in any order that you prefer
Select an Activity and use the Move Up and Move Down buttons
Or, to automatically sort a list by either ascending or descending alphabetical order, click Sort and select your preferred order
To remove a Learner Achievement Activity
Click on the activity title in the box below the Learning Level
Click Remove
The Activity Title Editing Pane will clear
Click Update
IMPORTANT
When you are done …
Click Close in the lower right corner of the dialog box - do not X out
After clicking Close your screen will flicker and flash and Word will appear to be frozen.
Please give your computer a moment while the Learning Design Tool updates with your edits.
Once the update is complete you will be able to access Word again and continue working.