How long is the instructional design course and in what format?

It is 20 hours, usually in five 4-hour sessions or ten 2-hour virtual micro-sessions, with work between sessions on each participant's own project. It can be live virtual, on-site at your company, self-paced on the platform, or a combination that fits your team's calendar.

Do we have to use a specific authoring tool?

No. The course focuses on design, which is independent of the tool: what you produce works the same in Moodle, Articulate, H5P, Canva or an in-person session. If your team already uses a tool, the deliverables are adapted to it and we point you to the complementary technical courses.

Does it include a DC-3 certificate filed with the STPS?

Yes. Every participant who meets the attendance requirement and submits their course design receives a DC-3 certificate with the data required by Mexico's STPS. The platform keeps the attendance records, the deliverables and the grades for your audits and inspections.

What support is there while people design their course between sessions?

Geedle Bot, our artificial-intelligence agent, is trained on the course content and recordings. If someone forgets how to write a performance objective, they ask and the bot answers and takes them to the exact minute and second of the recording where the instructor explained it.

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Instructional design course for companies

An instructional design course for in-house trainers, training coordinators and subject-matter experts who need to turn what they know into courses that people finish and apply. We work on a real project from your company, from analysis to evaluation, with an AI agent that supports participants between sessions and a DC-3 certificate filed with Mexico's STPS.

What is the instructional design course?

It is a 20-hour program that teaches how to design training courses with ADDIE: analyze the need, write measurable objectives, structure the content, build the storyboard, design the assessment and produce microlearning. It runs live virtual, on-site or self-paced, includes a DC-3 certificate, and every participant finishes with the design of a real course for their company.

Course sheet

The essentials at a glance.

Duration

20 hours

Formats

Live virtual · On-site · Self-paced

Certificate

DC-3 · STPS

AI agent

Geedle Bot answers questions 24/7 with the exact minute of the recording

What your team will be able to do

Learning objectives observable on the job.

Analyze the training need
Tell knowledge, skill and context problems apart before designing a course.
Write aligned objectives and assessments
Write measurable performance objectives and build the assessment that verifies them.
Design the sequence and storyboard
Structure modules, activities and resources in a storyboard ready for production.
Produce microlearning
Break content into 3-to-7-minute pieces without losing the learning thread.

Syllabus

Course syllabus

Six modules; each one leaves a deliverable you can apply in your operation.

Needs and audience analysis
Interviews, operational data, performance gaps and participant profile.
Analysis report
Learning objectives and assessment
Applied Bloom taxonomy, performance objectives and assessment design before content.
Objectives and assessment matrix
Experience design and sequence
Modular structure, teaching strategies, hands-on activities and cognitive load.
Course map
Storyboard and production
Screen-by-screen or session-by-session storyboard, writing for learning, media selection and expert review.
Storyboard of one module
Microlearning and delivery formats
Design for short pieces, live virtual sessions, on-site delivery and self-paced courses in the LMS.
Microlearning series
Implementation, evaluation and improvement
Pilot, Kirkpatrick model, completion indicators and data-driven adjustments.
Course evaluation plan

Who is this course for?

In-house trainers, human resources coordinators, technical leads who teach their own teams, and e-learning teams that produce content for Moodle or another LMS. No previous teaching background is required; what is required is a real topic the company needs to teach.

What changes in the operation after the course?

Courses with measurable objectives instead of topic lists, assessments that actually check whether a person can do the job, shorter and better-sequenced materials, and a repeatable process to design the next training without starting from scratch. Each participant leaves with a course designed and ready for production.

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Participant asking Geedle Bot on a laptop at night; the agent replies with minute 42:15 of the course recording

Artificial intelligence

An AI agent supports every participant during and after the course

Geedle Bot is trained on the syllabus, materials and recordings of your course. Participants ask in plain language and get an exact answer, not a generic one.

Knows every detail of the course: dates, syllabus, deliverables and certificate criteria
Solves problems in real time, at any hour, from Moodle, WhatsApp, Teams or Slack
Delivers the exact minute and second of the recording where the instructor explained the topic
Reinforces what was covered with summaries and review questions, and escalates to the instructor when needed
Shows HR which topics raise the most questions so the course can be adjusted

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Which format suits each course?

All of them issue a DC-3 certificate and leave records on the platform; what changes is how people practice and how the calendar is organized.

	Live virtual	On-site at your company	Self-paced on the platform
Ideal for	Teams across several sites or remote	Hands-on practice, team dynamics and brigades	Rotating shifts and large workforces
Interaction	Live instructor, breakout rooms and real cases	Instructor in the room, role-plays and practice with equipment	Microlessons, challenges and automatic assessments
Typical duration	2-to-4-hour sessions on different days	4-to-8-hour days	2 to 4 weeks at your own pace
Records	Attendance, participation and assessment on the platform	Roster, assessment and photo evidence	Progress, grades and time on the platform
Questions between sessions	Geedle Bot 24/7	Geedle Bot 24/7	Geedle Bot 24/7
Certificate	DC-3 with the STPS	DC-3 with the STPS	DC-3 with the STPS

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Instructional design course for companies

What is the instructional design course?

Course sheet

Duration

Formats

Certificate

AI agent

What your team will be able to do

Analyze the training need

Write aligned objectives and assessments

Design the sequence and storyboard

Produce microlearning

Course syllabus

Needs and audience analysis

Learning objectives and assessment

Experience design and sequence

Storyboard and production

Microlearning and delivery formats

Implementation, evaluation and improvement