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Instructional Design Job Aids #109: Challenge | Recap
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I’ve always relied on templates, cheat sheets, and job aids to help me work faster and more efficiently.
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When I wrote courses, I used cheat sheets that included writing snippets for course openings, introducing learning objectives, writing quiz feedback, and interviewing SMEs.
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As a course developer, I relied on cheat sheets for Flash and Photoshop shortcut keys, screenshots of common slide and interaction layouts, browser-compatibility charts, and publish settings for audio and video files.
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I get that topics like “templates” can be hot-button issues in our industry. But templates don’t have to be about gratuitous visual elements as much as guides to help you improve quality and consistency in your courses.
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So when Rachel Barnum directed me to a Reddit discussion on instructional design cheat sheets, I knew this would make a great weekly challenge!
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Challenge of the week
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This week, your challenge is to share an instructional design cheat sheet, job aid, or reference document that you created.
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You can share any type of guide you like and it can be static (image, checklist, PDF) or interactive (tabs, document, labeled graphic, quiz). If you share a document, we’ll add it to our Course Design Assets in the Downloads hub.
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Resources
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Instructional Design Resources
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Downloads
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Articles
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Related Challenges
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Last week’s challenge:
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Before you create your cheat sheets, check out the updated member profile pages from last week’s challenge:
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E-Learning Heroes Profiles #108: Challenge | Recap
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Wishing you a template-tastic week, E-Learning Heroes!
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New to the e-learning challenges?
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The weekly 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.
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