Start a New Learning Design Document

Follow these steps to start a New Learning Design Document

Open Word

Bring up the Learning Design tool ribbon

Learn the three ways to access the Learning Design Tool 

Click the New button on the Learning Design Tool ribbon to start your new Design Document

This will open the Start a New Learning Design Document wizard

Enter the title for the Learning Design Document you are creating

Enter an optional Course ID

Appears on the cover page

Becomes a Window's searchable keyword field 

Required to use the Audit Trail feature of the Learning Design Tool

Select a Cover Page

The Learning Design Tool comes with one default cover page.

You can modify it and make additional custom cover pages.

See Module 1: Lesson 4 of this course for instructions on how to create a custom cover page.

Save your New Learning Design Document when prompted

You will see a new Learning Design Document being built on your screen

You will be prompted to SAVE your new Learning Design Document

We recommend that you save to your local Documents folder & then work locally

You can later save a copy to network drive

After you Save you will see a message telling you that your document is ready

Click OK

You can now start working in your new Learning Design document.