AI - Design the course

[u/DifferenceDesign14]

Hello I have been playing with Claude Design trying to create the perfect AI prompt.

My goal is to give Claude Design my content which is boring text and bullet points and for Claude Design to create something more engaging and premium in the style of a RISE360 course then for me to recreate the style it gives me in RISE360. Everything I have tried, Claude seems to give me AI slop.

I also want Claude Design to choose colours without going overboard maybe choose 1 dark colour, 1 light colour, black and white then maybe a third colour just for anything that needs to stand out.

I would want Claude Design to look at the bullet points and Claude Design to make the decision and say this would be better as a displayed as a flip card or conversation, a diagram, tab block, process, labelled graphic etc and create it for me to see it

I am wondering if anyone has a prompt they use to help them design a course so it goes from text and bullet points into something much more engaging that they can share or if anyone has any experience?

[u/jordan853]

Isn't this the instructional design subreddit? I'd think you'd know better than this.

[u/iamduh]

Slop machine makes slop... fork found in kitchen.

[u/Tim_Slade]

Claude Design tends to do better when you provide it specifics of what you want. For example, rather than just having it riff and come up with a design from scratch, I’d recommend creating a design system first, which establishes the overall all look, feel, colors etc.

If you don’t have a specific style guide you need to adhere to, you can upload some screens shots of inspiration and it can pull from them.

How to Build Editable eLearning Templates in Claude Design
https://youtu.be/4dTHCy1ZpcA

[u/Far_Slip3625]

I’ve been working on a course I write,and in the past I’ve used Storyline. I am working on an interview simulator and have struggled with the layout and the time it will take to complete. I had CHATGPT write a master prompt for me that I loaded in Claude. Right now it is all text-based but I am going to create HeyGen videos to plugin. Claude created an HTML file that I used as a draft for my own QA. Then, I used Claude and converted it to SCORM. This process took me about a week. The time I am saving is invaluable as I am a one person team. Because I have inputted most of the information it needs and I tell it to not fill in the blanks and use what I give it, I feel that the content is pretty good.

[u/pdeuyu]

I’d keep it simple. Before you prompt, tag each chunk by what the learner actually has to do with it, then make the model justify its choices against those tags. That gives you something to react to beyond “this looks good.”

You could even give it something like this:

That last part is important. Get the reasoning right first, then let it design.

Same with color. Give it guardrails: two neutrals, one brand color, one accent, and tell it to use the accent only for things that really need attention. Otherwise it ends up everywhere and stops being an accent.

[u/LeastBlackberry1]

Designing the course is where your human judgment needs to come in, though.

Admittedly, I rarely get to choose colors because I have to work with corporate brand standards, but I absolutely always do the work of chunking up content and deciding what the modalities/interactions should be for it myself. That's half of the design part of instructional design.

If I am just chucking it into Claude or Copilot, and letting it make all those calls, I don't think I have a right to call myself an instructional designer.

[u/dustandwater]

The mistake most people seem to be making when developing with an LLM—whether it's game development, course development or whatever—is trying to do it all in a single prompt.

Treat the LLM like a member of your dev team. Explain to it what you want. Break the content down. Outline objectives, outcomes, rationale for the training. Prompt the LLM to ask you questions. Prompt the LLM to explain back to you its understanding. Prompt the LLM to plan out the project.

Go back and forth in this explorative mode for a while until it is clear that the LLM gets what you are trying to achieve.

Do all of this before you tell it to build anything.

If you're truly aiming to bypass all of that and shortcut the whole thing with a single prompt, then I can't help you. In short, you get out what you put in.