Progressively Challenging Your Learners #512: Challenge | Recap
🏆 Challenge of the Week
This week, your e-learning challenge is to design an activity or interaction that starts out easy and gradually gets more challenging. Your goal is to build learner confidence and skill while nudging them toward greater independence as they move forward.
For example, you could go with a branching scenario, a simulation, a layered quiz, or any kind of interaction where the challenge builds step by step.
The big idea here is scaffolding. Start by giving learners the support they need, then slowly pull back as they gain confidence and control.
🎯 Challenge Goals & Objectives
- Learn how to scaffold and fade support to promote learner confidence
- Practice using layered difficulty and chunked learning
- Explore ways to design learning experiences that adapt as skills grow
🚀 Tips for Getting Started
Here are some practical ways to approach this week’s challenge:
- Start with a baseline: Build an easy introductory activity to help learners feel successful right away.
- Use progression patterns: Increase challenge by removing hints, adding distractions, or combining multiple concepts.
- Mix it up: Try alternating difficulty or throwing in a surprise challenge to keep things engaging and unpredictable.
⚒️ Authoring Tools
You’re welcome to use any authoring tool you’d like this week. If you’re short on time, try quickly mocking up your ideas using PowerPoint, Figma, or your favorite graphics app.
🙌 Share Your E-Learning Work
You put in the effort, now make sure your work gets seen:
- Personal blog: If you have a blog, please write about your example from this week’s challenge and share the link with your submission.
- Social media: Please share your examples on LinkedIn and mention both David & Articulate using the #ElearningChallenge tags so we can help promote your work.
- Support your peers: With the new submission format, you can comment directly on each example. Try leaving helpful feedback on at least three projects this week
- Community forums: Feel free to cross-post in the forums to give your work even more visibility.
🎉 Last Week’s Challenge:
Before you progress through this week's e-learning challenge, the creative fakecations shared by your fellow community members last week.
Fakecation's All I Ever Wanted #511: Challenge | Recap
👋 New to the E-Learning Challenges?
The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.
Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article.
