A Wiggins & McTighe-style intake — woven with Bloom's Taxonomy, ADDIE, and the four async-learning engagement pillars — that turns thirty minutes of your time into an 8-module outline, a WFU SPS-format syllabus, a Canvas module map, weekly video scripts, a curated source kit, and a 90-minute faculty quickstart.
The Studio walks you through Wiggins & McTighe's Backward Design — start with the desired results, then determine acceptable evidence, then plan the learning experiences. Four additional lenses ride underneath: Bloom's revised taxonomy, ADDIE phases, the four async engagement pillars, and a traffic-light AI policy.
Backward Design provides the spine. These four lenses sharpen each stage — making outcomes measurable, weekly design rhythmic, and the AI policy practical rather than punitive.
Six levels — Remember through Create — with eight verbs each. Tap a verb to insert it into a CLO. The syllabus and outline pill each outcome with its detected level.
Weeks tagged with their phase — early weeks Analyze/Design, middle weeks Develop, late weeks Implement/Evaluate. Catches "all build, no transfer" before week one.
Discussion, active practice, formative assessment, feedback. Async courses fail predictably without all four — pre-seeded as your weekly evidence mix.
Per assessment, not per course. Green encourages it, yellow asks for disclosure, red forbids it. Three short policy lines you write once.
When you reach the end of the wizard, every artifact is generated from your answers and previewed in tabs. Use the gold buttons to save standalone files — every output is a starting draft you can edit, paste into Canvas, or hand to Claude for further refinement.
| Artifact | What it does for you | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 8-Week Outline | Weekly outcomes mapped to course CLOs. Bloom level, ADDIE phase, and engagement pillar per week. Catches orphan outcomes before week 1. | HTML |
| WFU SPS Syllabus | DMG-format section order. Warm, student-centered tone. Traffic-light AI policy with disclosure example. Tiered tech-support table. | HTML |
| Canvas Module Map | The fixed SPS scaffold plus your unique weekly modules — drop into Canvas with the correct page hierarchy. | HTML |
| Rubrics | 4-level analytic rubrics for the signature task (using your criteria), the four engagement pillars, and the Module 8 capstone reflection. Process-aware criteria included. | HTML |
| Materials Guide | Per-week curated searches against open repositories. Accessibility checklist baked into every week. | Markdown |
| Video Scripts | Eight scripts sized to your video format. Cold open → build → re-think → apply → close. Captions and transcripts required. | Markdown |
| Faculty Quickstart | 90-minute pre-flight checklist with three AI co-designer prompts and a Bloom-level check on your CLOs. | Markdown |
| Course Brief | Every input you supplied, packaged as one re-loadable JSON. Drop into Claude later to revise scripts, expand rubrics, or generate any artifact again. | JSON |
Students learn the rhythm of the program in week one and lean on it the rest of the term. Two modules are fixed at the front — one internal-only, one student-facing — eight content modules are unique to your course, and a closing Reflection and Application module ties the term together.
Six internal-only pages: developer notes, Canvas review orientation, Getting Started with Canvas, live-session options, suggested live-session topics, and gradebook late-policy directions.
Seven templated student-facing pages: Welcome, Meet the Lead Faculty (your bio), What to Expect & How to Succeed, Live Sessions (your schedule), Student Resources, Who to Contact, Ask the Instructor.
Same five-page template each module — X.0 Overview, X.1 Learning Materials, X.2 Discussion (Pillar 1), X.3 Assignment (Pillar 2/3), X.4 Optional Extension. Students learn it once, lean on it weekly.
Capstone reflection: what did you learn, what will you do differently in your work, how will you know it worked. 1,200–1,500 words plus a 90-second loom-style video.
"Backward design is the framework. You're still the instructor."The Studio's Operating Principle
The Studio drafts. You decide. Every artifact is a starting point — edit it, contradict it, throw half of it out. The framework is what holds; everything else is yours to shape.