Course 1: Build a Learning Design Document
Module 1: Getting Prepared

Lesson 4: Create a Custom Cover Page

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Customize on the Learning Design Tool ribbon

Overview

When you begin a new Learning Design Document, it starts with a default cover page.

  • You can modify the default cover page.

  • You can then modify your custom cover page as need to create a variety of custom cover pages.

To get started

Open the Learning Design Tool and:

  • Click the Customize button on the Learning Design Tool ribbon.

  • Select Create Custom Cover Pages from the drop down menu.

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Use the Create or Modify Cover Pages dialog box to start the customizing process

  1. Select the default page from the pulldown menu

  2. Click Make a copy

  3. Click the green GO button

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Next, select the COPY to rename

  1. You will see a message under the white Rename box directing you to select the copy from the Select a Cover Page list

  2. Click Select and from the drop-down list, select Default Cover Page Copy

Next, select the action to Rename

3. See your Cover page COPY as the selected page

4. Choose the action: Rename the one selected

5. Click GO

Next, edit the Cover Page Name

  1. See your Cover page COPY in the Editing area and make your edits

  2. Click Save

Next

  1. Select your NEW Cover page name

  2. Click Modify the one selected

  3. Click Go

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Make your edits to your new Cover Page

After clicking Modify the one selected and Go

  • The copy of our default cover page will open

  • You can slide the dialog out of the way

  • Make your changes to the cover page

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Default Cover Page-annotated

Once you are done making your new Cover Page

Validate and Save your new Cover Page

Use the Create or Modify Cover Pages dialog box to:

  1. Click the Validate button.

  2. Click the Save button

  3. Click Yes in the message asking if you are done making changes

  4. Click Close

Learning Design Default Cover Page

About the Default Cover Page

A. The page is set up as a table, to keep the page elements in place

  • If you do not want to use a table layout you can remove it:

    • Select the table

    • Click Table Layout in the top right corner of your screen

    • Click Convert to Text

  1. Along the top is a placeholder for the Course ID

    • You can move this placeholder to someplace else on the page

    • But you MUST NOT CHANGE or remove the Word Field placeholder or the style name "zLGP Course ID"

  2. Next is a logo placeholder - replace the Great Circle Learning logo with your company logo

  3. The phrase New Design Plan is a placeholder for the Title you will add for the cover page as you start a new Learning Design document

    • You can move this placeholder to someplace else on the page

    • But you MUST NOT CHANGE or remove the style name "LDT Program Name"

    • And there is no need to change the phrase New Design Plan because this is replaced by the Title you add when you start a new Learning Design document

  4. The phrase Instructional Systems Design Document is a document identifier that you can edit or remove

  5. A Paragraph Mark that you can use to add other text or images

  6. Another Paragraph Mark that you can use to add other text or images

IMPORTANT

  • You can make any changes you want to the default cover page.

  • BUT your custom cover page MUST have

    • Placeholder text that contains the Word Paragraph Style of "LDT Program Name"

    • And a Word Field placeholder marked with a "zLGP Course ID" style name.

 Without these two paragraph styles and one special Field control, certain automation functions of the LDT software will not work.

Style Names on Cover Page