Course 2: Customize the Learning Design Tool
Module 1: Instructional Design Customizations

Lesson 2: Customize the Learning Objective Action Verbs

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Good to Know before you start customizing Action Verbs

The Learning Design Tool includes a list of Action Verbs for each of the three included Learning Domains and their learning levels.

  • The Action Verbs available for you to customize is based on the Learning Domains preference you select when setting your Preferences.

  • If you have chosen to have all domains apply, then …

    • all domains, their learning levels, and the action verbs associated with each, are available to modify.

  • You can change your preferences at any time, as needed

To Set or Change your Preferences

You can set and change your Learning Design Tool preferences as needed.

  1. Click Customize on the Learning Design Tool ribbon

  2. Click Preferences

  3. The Preferences Settings dialog box will open

  4. Select the Learning Domains you need

  5. Click OK to set your preferences

Preferences-Learning Domains - annotated
Customize Preferences - Learning Design Tool

This is the Customize Action Verbs dialog box

Customize Action Verbs dialog box - Learning Design Tool

To add a new Action Verb to the list:

  • After selecting a Domain and a Learning Level, type the new verb in the Editing Area and click Add

  • All new verbs that you add are placed at the bottom of the list

To adjust a verb's location in the list:

  • Select it

  • Use Move Up or Move Down

Overall ordering of the List

  • Our lists are in ascending alphabetical order but this is not required

  • Your list can be in any order that you prefer

  • To automatically sort a list by either ascending or descending alphabetical order, click Sort and select your preferred order

Now, to edit the Action Verb list:

4. Select an Action Verb and

5. It will appear in the Editing Area

6. Edit the verb and click Update or …

7. Use the functions below the Editing area to:

  • Remove the selected verb

  • Add a new action verb

  • Move the selected verb Up

  • Move the selected verb Down

8. Click Apply when you are done editing

Follow these Steps to Customize Action Verbs

  1. Select the Domain you need to work with

  2. Select a Learning Level

Customize Action Verbs steps 1-2

After selecting a Domain & Learning Level

3. You will see the included list of Action Verbs

Customize Action Verbs step 3
Customize Action Verbs steps 4-8

Good to Know

Nothing is FINAL until you click APPLY

  • After adding, removing, updating, sorting in ascending or descending order, nothing happens to the master list for the specific domain and level you are working on until you click Apply.

  • In fact, once you start editing an action verb list, you only have two choices... Apply your changes or Close and start over.

ACTION VERBS must be SINGLE WORDS

  • To use a multi-word verb, hyphenate it. E.g. Project-Manage

  • Duplicate verbs are not allowed in the same list.

  • And while the same verb can be used in another learning level list, we advise careful consideration of a learning objective's "conditions" and "criteria" if you are using the same verb across various levels of learning and from within the same domain.