Do you remember a time when you’ve had to teach someone something? If it was your first time, you might have gotten lost explaining a complex topic, noticed your audience zone out, and pretty much completely failed at getting your point across. The struggle is especially true if you are trying to create a piece of learning content for the first time. 

However, with the rise of Generative AI, brainstorming, planning, and creating content for learners has become as easy as the touch of a button: almost. That is, if you know how to write the right prompts and understand what makes learning content truly effective. 

The WeSchool Education Team has come up with a tailor-made process you can follow even if you are not a content designer: a guided plan to use best practices of instructional design and prompt engineering to create different content to meet your unique training needs. 

Let’s now explore how you can create content with the help of AI on the WeSchool platform in a few simple steps, even if you are not a content designer.

An instructional designer maps the path that learners are going to take to learn something new. First, they might identify key objectives: Which knowledge or skills will help people meet key goals? What’s stopping them from getting there? From there, a course topic emerges, and the course design process gets in full swing. 

The instructional designer’s work is then to break a larger topic into smaller units and fill them up with content, activities, and assessments that will make up the learning path.

An example: Team training

Say you are designing a team training on how to use a project management tool. Using the AI assistant, you add your:

• Audience: Experienced team of Graphic Designers
• Topic or goal: Top strategies to use Asana for project management 
• Course duration: 4 weeks 
• Weekly time commitment: 2 hours 
• Course format: Cohort-based 

Now, it’s up to you to review and revise the output. Consider: Which topics are important to meet your learning and organizational KPIs? Which topics might you need to remove, add, or move around?

Let’s now see how to create specific types of commonly used training content. 

An example: Employee onboarding

You might have to communicate key company policies to your employees. Let’s say you are writing a holiday leave policy from scratch. You can use WeSchool’s AI-supported Text Editor to help you get started. By using a basic prompt like: “Write a company holiday policy,” you can get some general ideas for where to begin: What is a holiday policy? How do employees use it? No confidential company information is involved.

From there, you can begin to add your own unique company specifications. You can rely on the AI capabilities to be your assistant throughout the process, for example by asking it to rephrase content to say in another way, emojify it if that fits your company’s style and tone, fix spelling and grammar, and even translate it into another language. 

An example: Customer education 

Say you need to train a client on your various product features, like notifications, help desk functionalities, and usage tracking. You could do this in the format of microlearning video content. One video, one feature. With the help of AI, you can get support writing your video script. In this case, you could use WeSchool’s AI Writer to shorten text to make it more concise for a quick video, and change the tone to fit your unique organizational voice and brand, for example – making it academic, business, or even casual. 

• Hour One
• Visla
• Synthesia
• Wondershare DemoCreator

Tools you can use to create infographics: 

• Genial.ly
• Canva
• Google Slides
• Microsoft PowerPoint

An example: A higher education course 

Let’s say you are setting up an online university learning community about Fashion Merchandising. You decide to create an infographic about the new product catalog and price discount options.  

You can use the AI Writer to help you get started with brainstorming which product categories to include by writing a prompt like: “Name some product categories in fashion merchandising,” and you will get an extensive list, ranging from apparel and accessories to fragrances and footwear. You can choose the ones most relevant for you and from here, ask the AI Writer to help you write descriptions and edit for clarity and tone. Before you know it, you’ve got your content draft! Now you can choose your infographic template, input your information, and embed it into the WeSchool platform to make it available to your community.

An example: Team onboarding 

Interactive activities could be especially useful when onboarding teams, to create opportunities for more engagement and personalization.

Say you need to onboard a new Sales team member, and you want them to know about your international clients. You could create an interactive map, showing the locations and some key information using Genial.ly, and then embed the link on the WeSchool platform. 

And, it’s easier than you might think: using the AI writer, you can quickly summarize information to include just the most necessary bits someone needs from Day 1. You can then update the content anytime, and it will reflect automatically in the learning path. Also, new members can see comments left by others, becoming immediately involved in the team discussion.

An example: Upskilling

Say you are creating a course to upskill developers on using modeling software. There are some highly technical terms and precise information to remember, and you want to include a knowledge check in the form of an assessment. The AI Writer can help you quickly come up with definitions for the key terms you want to use. 

From here, you have 10 types of assessments to choose from on the WeSchool platform, ranging from true/false and matching to written answers and video quizzes. You can pick the quiz type that is best for the assessment you are creating and for your particular learners, to suit every training need. 

• True or false: A question to which the answer is either true or false 
• Short answer: A specific response needs to be given to a question 
• Multiple choice: One or more correct answers have to be selected 
• Crossword: Words and definitions are assembled into a crossword puzzle 
• Video quiz: Questions (true or false, short answer, open answer, or multiple choice) appear at different parts of a selected video
• Fill in the blank: Missing words have to be input into specific parts of a text 
• Matching: Items to be clicked to match those in column 1 with those in column 2 (using any of the available integrations (text, image, video, links, etc)
• Pair the cards: Cards should be dragged to match correct pairs 
• Open answer: A written answer to a question or prompt
• Reply with attachment: An answer submitted by attaching an external file or link