Redesigning a Series of Courses

We have 18 courses in a series that we'd like to redesign. They were designed about 4 years ago and now look dated. They all have narration. There are 3 of us on our eLearning Designer Team.

I opened one of the courses and created several slide masters, selected a new color scheme and new fonts. Applying them to the existing course was pretty tedious. In addition to thinking about the best way to present the existing information, I had to...

• Apply the new layouts
• Copy and paste text that was in individual text boxes into the title and body text boxes
• Reapply animation to text
• Re-sync animation with narration
• Redesign layers
• Eliminate unnecessary branching by creating new layers
• Find additional photos

Question: What is the most efficient way for our team to update the remaining 17 courses with the new design? 

I thought creating a template that we can all use might work, but that seems like a better tool if we were starting from scratch.