Build Your Branching Scenario

A step-by-step process for creating engaging elearning

9 Weeks from Blank Page to Branching Scenario

Over the course of this 9-week course, you will create a branching scenario from start to finish. You’ll start with a business need or performance problem to solve. I’ll guide you through each step along the way, from planning and designing through writing, developing, and refining your branching scenario.

What You’ll Get

9 Live, Virtual Sessions

Each week, you’ll be invited to a 1-hour live session via Zoom. These sessions will include presentations, demos, and time for questions. Can’t attend live? Each session will be recorded for you to review later.

Community and Resources

When you enroll, you’ll be invited to join a private online community to share what you’re learning with your peers. The course includes additional resources such as templates, samples, reading material, and curated links. The community will continue after the course ends, giving you a place for sharing with peers.

Apply What You Learn

As you progress through the course, you’ll build your branching scenario step-by-step. The weekly activities are structured to help you immediately apply what you learn.

Personalized Feedback

You will receive personalized feedback from the instructor on every assignment. You’re not just left to figure it out yourself; I’ll guide and support you every step of the way.

Course Outline

1. Plan Your Branching Scenario

What works for branching scenarios
Questions to ask SMEs
Objectives
Ideal path, mistakes, and consequences

2. Design Your Scenario Overview

Characters
Challenge
Context
Story concept

3. Draft Your First Decision

Introduction to Twine
Writing a decision point and options

4. Plot Your Branching Structure

Branching structures (time cave, branch and bottleneck)
How many wrong answers?
Opportunities to correct mistakes
Go back or restart?
Managing the complexity of branching

5. Write Your Ideal Path

Move from branching structure to full text
Write the ideal path
Dialogue-writing tips

6. Expand Your Scenario

Ways to provide feedback
Writing choices and consequences in alternate paths
Continue writing and revising your scenario text

7. Develop Your Scenario

Multimedia options
How much media do you need?
Visual design
Migrating from Twine to other tools

8. Enhance Your Scenario

Scoring
Adaptive feedback
Visual feedback (meters and other options)

9. Review and Refine Your Scenario

Testing
Publishing
Gathering feedback

About Your Instructor

Hi! I’m Christy Tucker. I combine storytelling and technology to help organizations build online training that engages learners and get results. Branching scenarios are my favorite projects to create, and I want to help you create them too.

I’ve worked with clients to develop training in a wide range of industries, including health care, state and municipal governments, safety consulting, Fortune 100 companies, nonprofit associations, and more.

I’m a regular speaker at conferences and industry events. I also write and publish a blog post every week and have written over 70 posts specifically about using scenarios and storytelling for learning.

Live Sessions

Live training Wednesdays 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM each week

Each week includes a live, virtual training session via Zoom. Plan to spend about 5 hours each week. That includes 1 hour to attend the live session or listen to the recording, plus time for completing activities and reviewing resources. It’s important to spend the time applying what you learn each week. Each activity builds on the previous ones until your branching scenario is complete.

Questions?

How much does this course cost?

The course costs $995. You can pay either all at once or in two installments.

Who is this course for?

Instructional designers who want to create a branching scenario. The scenario could be for a current work project, or it could make a great portfolio sample.

Specifically, this is best for people who do a little bit of everything in their jobs, from analysis through development. This course is designed to walk you through the whole process from concept to delivery.

What if I don’t do any development in my work, only planning and writing?

This course will still be helpful since most of the focus is on those parts of the process. You don’t need any technical expertise to get started in Twine, the free tool used in this course. I’ll give you everything you need to create a functional branching scenario, even without any development skills. You can use that as is, without any fancy development or multimedia, or you can pass that along to your developers to enhance.

I’m a developer; I don’t write scenarios, I just want to learn to build them.

This course might not be the best fit for you. Much of the content will focus on planning and writing. However, I may create a future course focused just on development. If you’re interested in that, please let me know what tool you use most.

How long will I have access to the course? What if I can’t start right away?

You’ll have access to this course for as long as I offer it, including all future versions and updates. You can review the recordings and complete all of the activities at your own pace later. Plus, everyone gets access to the private community, which will continue as a resource for sharing and peer feedback after the course ends.

Will I receive a certificate?

Yes, if you complete all of the course activities, you will receive a certificate to document your accomplishment.

Join the wait list

Enrollment is currently closed, but you can sign up for the wait list to be notified as soon as it opens for the next cohort.

By clicking the button above, you agree to share your email address with Christy Tucker and Mailchimp and to receive emails. Use the unsubscribe link in those emails to opt out at any time. You’ll be notified by email when enrollment opens for the next cohort, plus one email per week from my blog with tips for creating scenario-based learning and other instructional design and elearning topics.