SOLUTIONS

It takes at least 12 hours to design one hour of training

There are several common factors that contribute to the many hours spent on learning design, including:

  • the cognitive work required to build an instructionally sound learning design

  • everyone follows their own unique process when designing training

  • not everyone is trained in instructional design

Increase Productivity and Solve These Problems with the Learning Design Tool

Train and Manage Your Instructional Design Team

  • Customize the Tool based on your ISD requirements to provide your team with a smart tool that is efficient, effective, and easy to use.

Seamlessly move from Design to Development

  • Extract your Course Outline and into PowerPoint, or Articulate, or LeaderGuide Pro or Word to jump-start the Development phase.

Reduce Regulatory Headaches

  • Easily generate audit reports that include the Design Document Name and Course ID, the data type, source document name and file path of Imported Analysis Data, the Finalized learning objectives, and the date, source document name and file path to Extracted course design documents.

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Learning Design Tool FAQs

  • The Learning Design Tool is a managed COM Add-in to Word in desktop versions of Microsoft 365. It loads locally on each user’s computer. It is not cloud-based.

  • The Learning Design tool runs within Word and provides:

    • a professional instructional design template

    • automates the crafting of terminal and enabling learning objectives and learner achievement activities

    • automates the building of a detailed course outline

    • transfers the completed course outline to Word, PowerPoint, LeaderGuide Pro and Articulate

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  • Yes, the Learning Design tool includes robust customization options and the ability to share your customizations with your design team. Includes the ability to customize your:

    • Learning Objective Action Verbs

    • Learning Objective Criterion

    • Learner Achievement Activities

    • Content Structure Activities

    • Learning Type Labels

    • Document Styles

    • Document Cover Pages

    • User Preferences