Project Proposal:

Revamping of Training Curriculum and

designing of instructional content

By: Anchal Gupta (Associate Consultant)

 Project Kick-Off Date:
October 1, 2021

Expected delivery
December 15, 2021

What’s is in mind??

Proposal
● To review and restructure the existing training
curriculum
● To design instructional and interactive content
for an e-learning platform

Team Required:
● 2 Developers
● 1 Business Analyst
● 2 Tech Writers/Instructional Designer
● 1 Designer
● 1 Tester
 Curriculum development is a
dynamic process involving many
different people and procedure.

● It is a step-based linear process

● It organizes what will be taught, who will

Overview ●
be taught , and how it will be taught.
Focuses on characteristics and needs of
learners.

Four phases:
● Planning
● Designing
● Implementation
● Evaluation
To Kick off the Process
Approach 1 Approach 2
● First, we will focus on the existing training curriculum.
● Agile methodology to be followed.
We will find out all the quality content and
misses/gaps in it.
● Daily Scrum Meetings to inspect the
● Understand and define the curriculum scope and need progress and retrospections.
of business/stakeholders ● Sprint Cycle of 2-3 weeks
● A consolidated training/knowledge sharing session
● Creation of a separate environment/portal
will be done on regular basis to understand the
application/product. with sanitized data for content creation,
● DDLC approach to be followed rigorously. screenshots, and hand-on.
● Support of E-learning content like Tutorials, interactive ● Login credentials to be distributed among
videos with our training material.
the team.
Tools in Action/Required

Content Authoring Tools E-Learning Content Tools

●
Captivate/Camtasia for video screen capture
● Madcap Flare, Robohelp or Confluence. ●
Natural Reader for Audio capture
Any one of it.
Project Management Tools
● Microsoft Office Access
Trello or Jira
Screen Capturing Tools Language check/Plagiarism Checker
●
Snagit Grammarly, Spell Checker,
●
Visio/Balsamiq ( For DFD’s and PlagScan/PlagTracker
other illustrations Technologies: HTML, Cloud Computing,
Gamification etc.
Developing the Curriculum- Planning Phase
"Nobody plans to fail but failure results from
a failure to plan."
This phase lays the foundation of all the curriculum
development steps.
● In this phase, we will do all our requirement
gathering, identify our target audience and plan
about all the tools and technologies to be used.
● A dedicated team for curriculum development will
be finalized and KRA’s of each member will be
discussed.
● Conducting of Needs Assessment and detailed
analysis will also be done.
Approach:
● To design an effective and constructive
curriculum, we will decide on the template to be
used, stylesheet to be followed, and study all the
reference material available before hand.
● All our team members should we aware of each
feature/module of the application.
● Q&A session to be conducted at the end of each
discussion/meeting.
● Each topic to be followed by a Video tutorial/
interactive content with proper links and site
references.
 Curriculum Designing
The Nuts and Bolts:
Approach 1
● In this phase, we will determine the intended
outcomes, the content, and the methods to be used
● We will structure and formulate our TOC for the
curriculum.
● We will decide on Images, Illustrations/Screenshots
to be inserted.
● Decision to be made on percentage of content to be
reused and formulation of the new content from
scratch.
● Constructions of Models, Charts or Flow diagrams
using tools wherever required.
● To make this phase a success, we will do daily stand-
up meeting of 1 hour with the team to discuss the
progress, gaps and challenges.
● We will keep a strict eye on the Release Notes for any
changes or updations in the Product/Application.
● A initial draft to be submitted after 4 weeks of start, to
the senior management for their heads up and
validation.
● After finalizing of a topic, a e-learning video to be
integrated using Audio/Video recorder tool. For that
the scripts has to be designed.
Implementation- The Action Phase

After all the discussions on TOC,
Images/Screenshots, and E-
learning Content Scripts are
ready, the document has to be
created and finalized for
submission.
Hyperlink/Integrate your E-
learning videos and instructional
content with associated topics in
your curriculum.
After all the content designing,
screenshots integration, inclusion
of Instructional content, and
assessment questions is done,
submit it for quality check and
approval.

Required
Take Action on the
Produce curriculum draft steps/procedure Final Submission for
version Finalize for E-learning
Output to be
Review/Evaluation
generated
content

After an initial approval on the Export your document as

draft version, continue working Word, PDF or HTML Pages,
on the suggestions and the
as per requirement
main content
 Review and Evaluation

Review:
Three step process:
1. Self-Review
2. Peer Review
3. Technical/Editorial Review
Evaluation
● Whole curriculum is accessed whether meeting all the guidelines or criteria
● Design of formative and summative assessments
● Proofreading and Copyediting is done
● A series of questions are posed
 1. Suggestions are taken for what
and how to report to key
stakeholders, especially
funding and policy decision
Reporting- The makers
2. Brief discussion on how to
final stamp secure resources for additional
programming
3. Discussions of Final
Publication Items/Distribution
 Improving the Learning Experience
Assigning Badges/Rewards
● To motivate our learners/readers, we will give
Quiz section at the end of each module.
Anyone who will study and qualify all the quiz
will be rewarded a badge.
● We can also associate different certificates
as per the designation and profile, whosoever
completes the training curriculum. This
ensures better engagement and interest.
Flyers/Sneak Peek Mails/Teasers:
● To inform our internal audience about the
new training curriculum in action, we will
float weekly updates/teasers.
● We will regularly ask for the suggestions
and feedbacks.
● We will try to prepare the curriculum with
less of content and more of interactive
media, images, illustrations to attract our
learners and give them an unique
experience.
 1. Listen, really listen them at regular
intervals to avoid any gaps/misses.
2. Keep the project’s vision and mission
visible to them
3. Stick to your deadlines/delivery dates
Engaging 4. Develop good communication from the
beginning of the project
Technical and 5. Regular updates in form of newsletters,
flyers, teasers to showcase the
Business progress of the project
6. Product/Project Demo at regular
Stakeholders intervals
7. Manage the changing expectations
8. Relationships are Key- So work on it
9. At last, get ready with Questions and
answers to their queries
THANK YOU