Stop managing instructional design across multiple documents and spreadsheets. Learning Design Tool helps you organize data, design solutions, and generate structured outputs faster.
Designed to Help You Make an Informed Decision
Learning Design Tool guides you through the critical steps of instructional design, helping you organize information, create measurable learning objectives, structure training programs, and produce detailed design documents that support successful development.
Full 14-day evaluation period
Explore nearly all software features
Build real-world design documents
Test compatibility with your environment
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What You Can Accomplish During Your Free Trial
The Learning Design Tool free trial gives you hands-on experience with nearly all of the software's capabilities, allowing you to evaluate real-world projects before making a purchasing decision. Use your trial to build actual design documents, explore time-saving automation, and determine how Learning Design Tool fits into your instructional design process.
Build Your First Design Document
Create a professional design document using Learning Design Tool's structured templates and automated tools.
Import analysis data
Determine course entry knowledge and experience
Set the overall course goal
Determine the best way to deliver course content
Set the motivational framework for learner participation
Create Effective Learning Objectives Faster
Build measurable learning objectives and organize them into a clear learning hierarchy from the taxonomies of knowledge, skill, and attitude
Define performance-based objectives
Align objectives to business needs
Create objective hierarchies & sequencing
Maintain consistency across programs
Design Learner Achievements
Match training activities to desired learning outcomes and performance requirements.
Select appropriate learning strategies
Design learner achievements that are matched to the learning level
Identify practice opportunities
Align learner achievements to either terminal and/or enabling objectives
Build a Complete Course Structure
Create a detailed course framework before development begins.
Organize modules and lessons based on learning objectives and dependencies
Sequence content logically
Establish instructional flow
Define delivery requirements
Generate Design Documents & More
Produce structured documents that help developers, trainers, and stakeholders move efficiently into development.:
Create course outlines
Generate design documents
Export to PowerPoint
Export to LeaderGuide Pro Facilitator Guide
Create Articulate Storyline import
Share plans with stakeholders
Finally! A way to get everyone working on designs the same way.
Helen Vincenzo
Instructional Designer
★★★★★
I really appreciate all the built-in help. It saves me so much time, and it makes it easier for my less experienced colleagues to contribute.
Rhea Kumar
Instructional Designer
★★★★★
Every instructional design program should be giving this tool to their students!
Emily Ford
ISD Expert
★★★★★
Finally, a floor-level method for getting everyone on the same page when creating design documents.
Deputy Director
FDIC Corporate University
★★★★★
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Learning Design Tool Free Trial FAQs
Below are answers to the most common questions about Learning Design Tool’s free trial.
The free trial lasts 14 days from the time you activate the software using the free trial license key. The free trial timeframe does NOT start when the software is downloaded.
You can install and use nearly all of Learning Design Tool's functionality during your 14-day trial. A few trial-specific limitations apply. The customization features for templates are unavailable during the trial.
