Hey Cleo - some best practices my team use or are starting to use (these may be different for you):
- Figure out what kind of course it is. Is it just information or is it something else. Tom has some good blog posts on that: https://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/key-steps-in-building-the-right-type-of-e-learning-course/
- We create an Instructional Strategy document to capture our design intent and overall course flow.
- Design documents help us implement that design intent in a consistent way.
- Slide templates- creating our own library of common slide interactions.
- Storyboard in Storyline itself. We publish it to word and then the client can review that. We then can have developer notes in the staging area around the slide.
Some excellent suggestions from Judy too.