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Peer Pod Coming Soon: “New to Instructional Design” — Who’s Joining Us?
We’re kicking off a brand-new Peer Pod for anyone who’s new to instructional design and you’re invited! 🎉
Peer Pods are 4-week learning groups where community members explore a topic together through weekly prompts, curated resources, and shared discussion. Whether you’re a few days or several months into your role, this is your chance to connect with peers, reflect on key topics, and build confidence together.
Here’s what we’ll explore:
✨ What to focus on as you get started
📦 Intro to Articulate 360 + course design best practices
🤝 Tips for working with SMEs
💻 Best practices for incorporating AI
By the end, you’ll walk away with a stronger foundation and a group of peers cheering you on.
🗓 Start Date: Monday, January 12, 2026
Participants will be added to the private Peer Pod group about a week before we begin.
👉 Want to join? Fill out the registration form.
💬 Your turn: What Peer Pod topics do you want to see next?
If you could join a focused 4-week learning group, what topic would you choose? Drop your ideas below so we can build pods around what you want most. 🙌
34 Replies
Will there be a new peer pod starting anytime soon?
I would like to walk through how to use one safety course for different sites with changes, or customizations specific for their sites on specific slides-topics
This sounds like a really cool experience - unfortunately I missed the cutoff date. Will there be more? Thank you :)
Hi, I'm about a month into my first instructional design job, and I just saw this post. Is there any way I could still join? It looks like the registration form is closed.
I would love this! I've been learning as I go for about a year not and would love to learn more ways to creatively use the resources within vs. looking for outside sources to bring into the platform. Also, what other creative ways can we use rise/storyline with the company.
KellOrding Is there an opportunity to join the Peer Pod?
Hi jvtwillie! Thanks for asking about this! I've added you into the program. You should have received two program emails. Looking forward to the next several weeks together in this program! 🙌
Thank youKellOrding I’m excited for the peer pod.
KellOrding Good afternoon. I thought I signed up for the peer pod and a friend of mine said she got an email about the kick off meeting. Can you confirm if I had signed up for it? I am fairly certain I did and then I posted the link to sign up on our slack channel and several of them also got the email. I really hope I did not miss it I was really looking forward to it. 😓
Hi bslevans! Thanks for reaching out about this! I've added you to our database and program group. You should have received two program emails. Looking forward to the next several weeks together in this program! 🙌
This experience will be exciting and filled with tons of learning!🙌🏾
I’m a newbie interested in instructional design and this sounds amazing! But I do not have Articulate 360, and it’s quite expensive for an individual. After the free trial, do you offer any discounts for Articulate 360 for individuals in the pod?
I really wish these had existed when I was new to ID! Very jealous of the participants.
Any chance you will begin pods for more experienced IDs? Especially as a single in house ID I would love to have a pod of people to turn to to bounce ideas off of and learn with.
Hi LFanz! Yesssss - the goal with these Peer Pods are to expand to more topics that could intersect with the many needs of our community members 🙌🏼
Are there certain topics you'd love to see or be part of? I'd love to gather any ideas from interested community members!
Also huge kudos to you as a single in house ID! That's a lot of work and I totally get that desire to be able to connect with others and have a sounding board ❣️
