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Good instructional design is a key factor in training success and learner retention. As with all training, the end goal is to deliver strong content that meets all goals and objectives in an e� ective way. How e� ective is your instructional design process and methodology?

The major phases of an instructional design project are: Plan, Analyze, Design, Develop, Measure and Support.

Planning: Lay out a high level plan for the major phases of the entire project. This includes a timeline for project completion and communicating the instructional design process to others.

Analysis: Analyze training end uses, logistics and tasks. This allows for prescribing the most e� ective media for the di� erent members in your training audience.

Design: Prototype the recommended deliverables for project team approval. Upon approval, the documentation standards

and style guides are created to ensure a high, consistent level of quality for all of your deliverables. The design phase also includes creating a detailed project plan to maintain and measure progress through completion.

Development: The process of gathering the information and source material to use for your content. This includes focusing on the di� erent methods of delivering the training, and determining the best way to present the content in each modality.

Delivery: Typically performed two to four weeks prior to go-live, this is the point in which you put your participants through the materials you developed.

Measurement: Measurement begins during delivery with end knowledge checks, end-of-course assessments, graded exercises, end-of-course surveys and a robust remediation strategy. Although often overlooked, post-training assessments at six or twelve months

should also be discussed as a tool to assess long term e� ectiveness of the skills and behaviors learned.

Support: E� ective instructional design also includes a strong support program. This not only includes go-live support, but also long term support of the end users and maintenance of the training materials.

If you want to learn more about these steps and become equipped with the tools you need to implement an instructional design process in your organization, contact us to � nd out more about our Instructional Design training program.

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Common Microsoft Word Keyboard ShortcutsDo you spent a lot of time working on Word documents? Try out some of these common keyboard shortcuts to save time and mouse clicks!

Action Shortcut Action ShortcutMake letters bold CTRL + B Copy selected text CTRL + C

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Make letters underline CTRL + U Paste text or object CTRL + V

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Increase font size 1pt CTRL + SHIFT + ] Redo the last action CTRL + Y

Remove paragraph or character formatting CTRL + SPACEBAR Open the Word Count

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