Day 9 / 60Week 1 · Introduction to Instructional DesignMini project

Mini project: write learning objectives for a simple course

Learning goal

Produce a complete, aligned objective set for a real, small topic.

Estimated time

40 minutes · self-paced

Warm-up

Pick a topic you could teach a new colleague in one hour.

Main lesson

Brief

Choose a small real topic (expense claims, safe lifting, writing a support ticket). Produce one terminal objective and 3–5 enabling objectives, each with a matching activity and check.

State the performance problem in one sentence
Write the terminal objective
Write 3–5 enabling objectives
Add one practice activity per objective
Add one assessment item per objective

Quality bar

example

No banned verbs. Every objective observable. Every objective traceable to the performance problem.

Examples from practice

— Objective set for 'Submitting a clean expense claim' with 4 enabling objectives.

Interactive quiz

Your enabling objective has no link to the terminal objective. What is it?

Reflection

What did you cut, and why did it feel hard?

Daily challenge

Share your objective set in the community and ask for one critique.

Portfolio task

Finish and save 'Project 1 — Objective set' with a short rationale paragraph.

AI design tools

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