The fastest way to a bad course is to turn an SME transcript straight into slides. These three prompts pull the decisions out of the content first. Run them in order; paste your material where marked.
1, Find the moments that actually matter
Here are my notes from a subject-matter interview:
[PASTE NOTES]
List the 3–5 moments where someone on the job has to make a judgment
call and could plausibly get it wrong. For each, give: the situation,
the right move, and the tempting wrong move people actually make.
Ignore anything that's just reference information.2, Draft a decision-first scenario
Take this moment:
[PASTE ONE MOMENT FROM STEP 1]
Write a short scenario where the learner faces the decision before any
teaching. Give one realistic setup, three options (one right, two that
reflect real misconceptions), and one-line feedback for each that
explains the reasoning, not just "correct" or "incorrect."3, Make it measurable
For that scenario, propose the xAPI statements it should emit (launched,
answered with the choice, passed/failed) and the single on-the-job
behavior it maps to, so it can be tracked to Kirkpatrick Level 3
instead of just completion.Run them in sequence and you’ll spend your time editing judgment calls instead of formatting bullet points.