Title: Activity 2.1 - Designing a Storyboard
Course: Learning Design and Development > Section: Topic 2: Designing for learning

Activity 2.1: Designing a Storyboard

Aim: Learn how to design a storyboard.

Motivation: Develop a storyboard for your course in which the learning outcomes are aligned with the assessment events, contents, and activities.

Task: Design a storyboard for a real course.

Duration: 75 minutes

Tools: Discussion forum; internet

Resources: 7Cs learning design storyboard example. (University of Leicester, 2012)

What to do:

- Develop a storyboard for your course.
- Work on a large sheet of flipchart paper using coloured sticky notes or cards.
- You could also use the free Linoit software if you prefer. (Requires registration)

How:

- Please undertake this task individually. However, if you have an institutional team working on the same course, you may work together with them.
- Start by indicating the time frame or structure for your module/course in days or weeks, phases, or topics, horizontally across the top in one specific colour (for example, white).
- In the next row, use a different colour sticky note to represent the learning outcomes for that column (for example, pink).
- In the third row, use a different colour sticky note to represent the assessment events (for example, yellow).
- If assessment occurs only at the end of the module/course, you should just have a single sticky note with a description of the assessment at the end of the storyboard.
- If assessment events occur during the module/course, please use a separate sticky note (all with the same colour) for each one. Indicate how each assessment event addresses the course outcomes.
- In the following row, divide the content into a series of separate chunks, and label each. (Use one colour of sticky note, for example, blue).
- Rewrite and move the post-it notes around until you are satisfied.
- The next step for the last row is for you to add possible learning activities appropriate to each section using a different colour post-it note, for example, green.
- Paste these sticky notes in the appropriate section of the storyboard. On each post-it note, at this stage, simply write the purpose of each activity.

Response/Feedback: (peer review)

- Take a photograph of your storyboard and upload and share the storyboard with your peers in the discussion forum for this activity.
- Comment constructively on other educators who may have used a different approach from yours in terms of timeframe or topic.

Assessment:

- Completing this activity will count towards your course portfolio.

Note: Adapted from the 7Cs of Learning Design toolkit University of Leicester (2012). CC BY