Instructional Design Toolkit: 19 Customizable Templates

Stop spending hours searching for examples, curating ideas, and building instructional design documents from scratch.

This downloadable instructional design toolkit gives you an organized starting point for understanding what a typical instructional design workflow can look like, from the initial project request through training evaluation and reflection.

Inside, you will find 19 blank, customizable templates covering key stages of the instructional design process, including:

• Discovery sessions

• Training needs analysis

• Project planning and timelines

• Project proposals

• Action mapping

• Learning experience design

• Course outlines

• Storyboards

• Stakeholder communication

• Project monitoring

• Training evaluation and impact analysis

• Project retrospectives

Use the complete toolkit as a central reference for seeing how the pieces of an instructional design project fit together. You can also make copies of the individual Google Docs and customize them for your portfolio, organization, clients, or future training projects.

Whether you are transitioning into instructional design, building your first portfolio, working as a freelance instructional designer, or looking for a more organized project process, these templates can help you move forward with greater clarity and confidence.

What This Toolkit Helps You Do

• Understand the typical instructional design workflow

• Organize project documents in one central location

• Save hours of researching, curating, and formatting resources

• Start projects with a practical structure already in place

• Customize documents for different clients and organizations

• Build a repeatable process for future instructional design projects

Please Note

These are blank, reusable working templates, not completed project examples, personalized consulting, or an instructional design course. Instructional design processes vary by project and organization, so the toolkit is designed to provide a flexible starting point that you can adapt to your specific needs.

Spend less time figuring out what to create and more time designing learning solutions that support performance.