About Instructional Design Wizard

The Instructional Design Wizard provides you with a step-by-step process for:

• Defining course learning objectives.
• Incorporating assessment activities.
• Identifying appropriate instructional methods and activities.
• Recommending tools that support the learning experiences you want to provide in your course.
• Promoting alignment between learning experiences and Bloom’s Taxonomy.

As you progress through the wizard, it creates a course structure using placeholders in the Course Builder and reviews instructional design strategies.

The Instructional Design Wizard promotes the following instructional design best practices and concepts for course design:

• Understanding learner personas.
• Spending time early in the process to document your desired outcomes and learning goals for your course, including a mix of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation objectives.
• Determining an appropriate mix of instructional strategies for the course and its lessons, including direct instruction, collaborative learning, independent learning, and experiential learning.
• Creating a variety of content-focused and application-focused learning experiences using Learning Environment tools and technology in different ways.
• Determining appropriate measurement and assessment strategies, including diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments to understand, customize, and accurately measure learning outcomes.
• Reviewing your course for appropriate length, distribution of experiences, etc.

Overview: Instructional Design Wizard's process

The wizard goes through four main stages:

• defining your course's learning goals
• choosing activities that enable you to measure when learners accomplish objectives
• organizing your course's grade book to measure learners' accomplishments
• providing you a chance to review the course's design

When you run the wizard, you can go back to previous steps to refine inputs, save progress to continue at a later time, create additional course modules, or refine existing modules.

Access Instructional Design Wizard

Access the wizard through one of the following:

• Click Instructional Design Wizard under Site Resources in the Course Administration widget.
• Click Edit Course on the navbar, then click Instructional Design Wizard.
• Click Instructional Design Wizard on the navbar.

Instructional Design Wizard help topics

Teaching

• Creating instructional goals
• Creating learning activities and assessments
• Configuring how the wizard uses grade books
• Understanding the blueprint

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