eLearning Storyboarding Essentials: Plan, Design and Create with AI

About Course

Learn how to turn a learning idea into a clear, practical eLearning storyboard. Explore the foundations of storyboarding, learning activities, visual and interaction planning, and responsible use of AI tools to speed up drafting without losing instructional quality.

This is a fully self-paced online programme of short theory lessons followed by guided self-directed practice. AI is introduced as a support for ideation, drafting and review, while you stay responsible for learning-design decisions, factual accuracy, accessibility and ethical use.

Course at a glance

Item	Detail
Format	Fully self-paced online programme
Estimated duration	2.5 to 3.5 hours
Structure	Four short modules, nineteen lessons and one optional practical lesson
Assessment	None
Interaction	None required. No discussion, sharing, peer review or tutor feedback
Completion	Mark each lesson complete in your own time
Core outcome	Create a storyboard for a short eLearning lesson, video, presentation or digital learning resource

No prior storyboarding experience is required. All videos come with captions, a transcript and a text-based alternative.

Explain the purpose of a storyboard in an eLearning production process.
Choose an appropriate storyboard format for a short digital learning project.
Plan learning outcomes, activities and basic learner interactions before development begins.
Create a structured storyboard for a short eLearning lesson, video or presentation.
Use AI tools responsibly to generate, critique and refine storyboard drafts.
Apply basic accessibility, inclusion and ethical-AI checks to your planning process.

Course Content

1: Storyboarding basics
A storyboard helps you see and fix a learning experience before you build it. In this module you'll learn what a storyboard is, what makes a learning storyboard different and what real storyboards look like. Then you'll choose the small learning idea you'll work on for the rest of the course.

1.1 What a storyboard is
1.2 What makes a learning storyboard different
1.3 What storyboards look like
1.4 Your project idea

2: Learning design first
Before you fill in a storyboard, decide what learners should be able to do, how they'll practise it, what shows they can do it and what you'll tell them about their answer. Every storyboard has to record these decisions, so it's quicker to make them first.

3: Building a storyboard
Now turn your learning design into a storyboard someone can build from. You'll adapt a template to the people who'll use it, map a short sequence, plan one row in full and list the media it needs. Add only as much detail as the people involved need.

4: Storyboarding with AI
An AI tool can now draft much of a first storyboard from a good brief. In this module you'll see how storyboarding has changed, brief an AI tool, draft and review your storyboard in stages, and run the final checks before anyone builds it. You stay responsible for the final design.

5: Resources

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eLearning Storyboarding Essentials: Plan, Design and Create with AI

About Course

Course at a glance

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

1.1 What a storyboard is

1.2 What makes a learning storyboard different

1.3 What storyboards look like

1.4 Your project idea

2: Learning design first
Before you fill in a storyboard, decide what learners should be able to do, how they'll practise it, what shows they can do it and what you'll tell them about their answer. Every storyboard has to record these decisions, so it's quicker to make them first.

2.1 An outcome you can see

2.2 Practice and feedback

3: Building a storyboard
Now turn your learning design into a storyboard someone can build from. You'll adapt a template to the people who'll use it, map a short sequence, plan one row in full and list the media it needs. Add only as much detail as the people involved need.

3.1 Templates that fit

3.2 The sequence

3.3 One row in full

3.4 Media and file names

4.1 How storyboarding has changed

4.2 Your AI brief

4.3 The AI Storyboard Maker workflow

4.4 Final checks and handover

4.5 Finish your storyboard (optional)

5: Resources

Downloads and further reading

Glossary

About Course

Course at a glance

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

1.1 What a storyboard is

1.2 What makes a learning storyboard different

1.3 What storyboards look like

1.4 Your project idea

2: Learning design first Before you fill in a storyboard, decide what learners should be able to do, how they'll practise it, what shows they can do it and what you'll tell them about their answer. Every storyboard has to record these decisions, so it's quicker to make them first.

2.1 An outcome you can see

2.2 Practice and feedback

3: Building a storyboard Now turn your learning design into a storyboard someone can build from. You'll adapt a template to the people who'll use it, map a short sequence, plan one row in full and list the media it needs. Add only as much detail as the people involved need.

3.1 Templates that fit

3.2 The sequence

3.3 One row in full

3.4 Media and file names

4.1 How storyboarding has changed

4.2 Your AI brief

4.3 The AI Storyboard Maker workflow

4.4 Final checks and handover

4.5 Finish your storyboard (optional)

5: Resources

Downloads and further reading

Glossary

Student Ratings & Reviews

2: Learning design first
Before you fill in a storyboard, decide what learners should be able to do, how they'll practise it, what shows they can do it and what you'll tell them about their answer. Every storyboard has to record these decisions, so it's quicker to make them first.

3: Building a storyboard
Now turn your learning design into a storyboard someone can build from. You'll adapt a template to the people who'll use it, map a short sequence, plan one row in full and list the media it needs. Add only as much detail as the people involved need.