Review an e-learning draft against instructional design best practices
A structured quality review of a draft course or storyboard covering alignment, cognitive load, practice, feedback, and usability.
The prompt
Review my draft e-learning module or storyboard before it goes to development or launch.
Objectives: [LIST]
Learners: [WHO and their context]
Draft: [PASTE STORYBOARD, SCRIPT, OR SCREEN-BY-SCREEN TEXT]
Constraints: [length limit, authoring tool, stakeholder must-haves]
Review against these criteria:
1. Alignment: does every section serve an objective, and does every objective get practice and assessment?
2. Relevance: does it open with why it matters to the learner and use realistic job examples?
3. Cognitive load: chunk size, text density, unnecessary detail, redundant narration and on-screen text, decorative visuals that distract.
4. Practice: are learners making decisions and applying content, or just clicking next and answering recall questions?
5. Feedback: is it explanatory and tied to consequences?
6. Navigation and usability: clear instructions, consistent controls, progress indicators, no forced locking without reason.
7. Tone and language: plain, consistent, inclusive, learner-focused.
8. Accessibility basics.
Return:
1. An overall verdict and the 3 biggest problems to fix first.
2. A table: Screen or section | Issue | Criterion | Suggested fix | Severity.
3. Rewrites for the 3 weakest screens.
4. Content that could be cut or moved to a job aid.
Do not alter technical facts; flag doubtful content as [CONFIRM WITH SME].
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- LIST
- WHO and their context
- PASTE STORYBOARD, SCRIPT, OR SCREEN-BY-SCREEN TEXT
- length limit, authoring tool, stakeholder must-haves
- CONFIRM WITH SME
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the RTF structure (Role, Task, Format). RTF tells the model who to be, what to do and what shape the answer should take. It is the quickest structure that still gives noticeably better results than a bare request.
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