407: Beyond the Checklist: Writing Guidelines That Enhance eLearning Quality

Many eLearning teams rely on checklists to review courses, but without clear guidelines, quality control becomes reactive instead of proactive.

This session tackles the challenge of inconsistent course quality by demonstrating how to create structured, actionable guidelines that drive engagement, accessibility, and instructional effectiveness. You'll learn the difference between guidelines, best practices, and rules, ensuring flexibility while maintaining high standards. Through real-world examples and interactive discussions, we'll explore how to write, implement, and enforce eLearning quality guidelines that streamline development and improve learner outcomes.

You will leave with practical strategies for rolling out guidelines across teams, ensuring adoption by instructional designers, developers, and SMEs. You'll also receive a template for structuring eLearning quality guidelines to take back to your organization. If you're looking to move beyond checklists and create sustainable quality standards, this session is for you!

In this session, you will learn:

• How to write effective eLearning quality guidelines that are clear, actionable, and measurable, ensuring consistency in instructional design, accessibility, and engagement
• The difference between guidelines, best practices, and rules and when to use each to maintain flexibility while ensuring quality
• How to structure and format eLearning guidelines so they are easy to follow, implement, and scale across teams
• Strategies for rolling out and enforcing quality guidelines to support adoption by instructional designers, developers, and stakeholders
• Ways to continuously refine and improve guidelines based on feedback, learner data, and evolving industry standards

To be successful in this session, you should be:

Aware of: How guidelines function.