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Week 5 review & tool strategy

Learning goal

Choose your tool stack and consolidate development skills.

Estimated time

20 minutes · self-paced

Warm-up

Which tool did you enjoy most, and which felt most useful?

Main lesson

Pick a stack

diagram

Employers care that you can learn tools, not that you own all of them. Choose one authoring tool, one visual tool, one media tool and go deep.

Retrieval sweep

From memory: when to use Rise vs Storyline; three audio quality rules; the contrast ratio; two good AI uses.

Examples from practice

  • 'Rise + Storyline + Canva + Camtasia' as a declared stack.

Interactive quiz

What most impresses a hiring manager?

Reflection

What is your declared stack for the next 6 months?

Daily challenge

Write your tool stack statement for your portfolio homepage.

Portfolio task

Write the Week 5 learning log and add the stack statement.

AI design tools

Ten assistants for this lesson

AI Mentor

Instructional design questions only

Hi! I'm your ID Mentor. Ask me anything about week 5 review & tool strategy — or instructional design in general.