ARTICULATE STORYLINE · FLAGSHIP PROJECT
Instructional Design Project Simulation
A realistic practice environment where new instructional designers make project decisions, see consequences, and reflect on their approach.
WELCOME TO THE SIMULATION
You are the instructional designer.
Guide a real-world project from kickoff through debrief.THE PROJECT
Practice the judgment behind the job—not just the vocabulary.
The challenge
New instructional designers can learn processes and terminology without getting many chances to practice the messy decisions that shape a real project. They need a safe way to weigh constraints, ask better questions, and see how one choice affects what happens next.
What I built
Learners take the role of an instructional designer and guide a project from kickoff through planning, checkpoint questions, project-management challenges, and final reflection. The experience connects those moments so they feel like one project rather than unrelated quiz questions.
HOW IT WORKS · IN PLAIN ENGLISH
The course has a memory—and rules for what to do with it.
Storyline’s technical features work together so the simulation can respond to the learner instead of sending everyone through the same fixed sequence.
Variables are memory
They store decisions, progress, and other information the learner creates along the way.
Triggers are instructions
They tell the course what to do when a learner clicks, chooses, completes, or revisits something.
Conditions are the logic
They check what has already happened before deciding which feedback or path to show.
Layers control the moment
They reveal the right information without sending the learner to a completely separate screen.
THE LEARNER EXPERIENCE
A complete project arc in four moves.
- 01
Review the scenario
Understand the project background, goals, people, and constraints.
- 02
Make decisions
Respond to checkpoint questions and realistic project-management challenges.
- 03
See the experience respond
Choices are tracked and used to shape what the learner sees next.
- 04
Reflect and transfer
Review the process and connect the reasoning to future instructional-design work.
MY CONTRIBUTION
Designed and developed end to end.
Learning strategy, scenario structure, project prompts, checkpoint questions, interaction design, variable and trigger logic, Storyline development, guided reflection, visual layout, and final refinement.
EXPLORE IT YOURSELF
Ready to make the project decisions?
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