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Module 2 of 7Lesson 3 of 3~12 min

Align objectives, assessments and activities

Many courses teach one thing and assess another. This lesson introduces constructive alignment and shows you how to check, for each objective, that the assessment and the activity really ask for the same thing. You can then fix a mismatch before it penalizes your learners.

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Lesson objective

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to check that an objective, its assessment and the activity that prepares for it all ask for the same behavior, and to fix a misalignment.

Topics covered

  • constructive alignment
  • learning assessment
  • learning activities
  • course design

Where it fits

Frame the course

Who is it for, what problem does it solve, and what will learners be able to do at the end?

Lessons in this module

  1. Write the promise of your course
  2. Write observable objectives
  3. Align objectives, assessments and activities (this lesson)

What you will learn in the course

This lesson is part of the course Design and launch an effective online course

  • Write the promise of a course (precise audience, problem, observable transformation, format) and decide whether an online format suits the subject.
  • Write 3 to 5 observable objectives, place them in the revised Bloom's taxonomy and align each one with an assessment and an activity (constructive alignment).
  • Design the plan of a module that applies research-backed principles (retrieval practice, spacing, worked examples, feedback), with justified formats, durations and checkpoints.
  • Write formative assessment questions at the apply, analyze or evaluate level, with distractors drawn from real mistakes and explanatory feedback.
  • Produce course content with an AI assistant using the 4Ds (delegation, description, discernment, diligence), with fact-checking and transparency towards learners.
  • Choose a platform against explicit criteria and identify the legal obligations and funding conditions (Qualiopi, CPF, withdrawal right, cookies) that apply to your project, then run a pilot test and the launch.
  • Diagnose, from learning data and feedback, which part of the course to improve first and choose a fix.

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