Effective instructional design begins with a detailed analysis of the target audience and its specific needs and goals. With Designer's Edge, you can conduct a thorough needs analysis which provides a strong foundation for a complete design plan that includes audience analysis, identification of key objectives, course storyboards, media logs, and other essential components. At the Needs Analysis level, you identify needs and then write specific goals related to those needs. Context-sensitive advice is available here and throughout the tool to give you specific help when and where you need it.
Effective training is the same way.
You can print out the report generated by answering these questions in any RTF compatible word processor. The specific information you gather provides vital guidelines as you develop the other elements of your training title. These questions may seem personal, but these are the answers you need in order to develop a clear vision of your audience and write training that really works for them. No one likes writing objectives, but well-written objectives are critical to the success or failure of a course. Designer's Edge makes writing objectives fun by presenting the information you have entered earlier in a very visual format.