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3. Implement IDD Edits

Markette Pierce Updated by Markette Pierce

Implement IDD Edits

After our internal reviews — Creative Director, IDD, and Student Experience — changes need to be implemented before the course is handed off to the faculty. The internal reviews are often done in parallel, although Student Experience reviews are less common, and may be replaced by a Facilitator review. After these reviews are incorporated, then the course will go to the faculty for their review.

If there are conflicting recommendations between reviewers, it may be necessary to conference with multiple parties to establish what will result in the best student experience, as well as what is most pedagogically sound. Even if the revision suggestions aren't identical, multiple flags of the same aspect of the course is a good indication that some work needs to be done on that piece. At the bottom line, we are trusting your instructional design expertise to figure out the best solution, keeping in mind that each reviewer is coming to the course from a different point of view, and level of knowledge about the content.

General steps

  1. Verify (person) is done with their review
  2. For each item - decide what steps to take
    1. Make the change as noted (or)
    EXAMPLE: Clarification of appropriate wording: Remember, as the designer, you are (outside of the faculty), the person who has spent the most time with the content; something that is unfamiliar to another reviewer may be perfectly correct.

    Often, edits arise from that same familiarity with the content, or aspects of the design process itself - as the author of a document, file permissions will be different than for outside viewers. Similarly, when you have created, and then read, and re-read a document, it is easy to not see confusing wording, or the remnant of something that was changed, and then not completely edited out.
    1. Discuss with the reviewer options for implementing the change
      1. Is it a style “preference” difference? If this is the case, think about consistency across courses, and within our catalog. We want to keep the “voice” of the faculty intact, as much as possible, as this is their course.
      EXAMPLE: From student experience review: The guiding design is the vision of the faculty author — this reviewer is suggesting doing things very differently — but this is not their course/certificate.

      To be consistent across the catalog, we follow established page designs in all of our courses — we generally won’t change a standard page design without a compelling reason to do so, and that kind of discussion would likely involve the IDD and potentially someone from Creative.
      1. Add or remove content to clarify? Sometimes, minor rearranging or re-wording may be enough to remove the issue. At this point in development, we want to avoid major structural changes, because of the cascading effects that this can have on activities, quizzes, and projects.
  3. Update the ‘“status” and “solution” columns in the spreadsheet to reflect the design decisions that were made.
  4. Mark the Wrike task Done, and update the status of the next task.

Additional Information

The following articles are related to this workflow:

InCopy ID/CE Team Instructions

Google Sync Instructions

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