How Vidext designs a course

This page explains, in plain terms, how Vidext's agents design a course: the AI agents that research your material, plan the course with you, write each module and build it. Read it if you want to know what you are getting before you build, or why the agents ask what they ask.

Vidext does not turn a document into slides. The agents design a course backwards from what learners must be able to do, the way a careful instructional designer would, and they show you each decision before the next step depends on it. Each step builds on the one before:

The goal: what learners can showCopy Anchor Link

Every course starts from one goal, stated as something a learner can explain, identify, or choose. For example: "new warehouse staff will choose the right lifting technique for a load's weight and shape". Goals like "know", "understand", or "be aware of" are not accepted, because no check can show them.

How people perform at work still matters, and it is kept as context for the course. But Vidext is honest about what a course can prove: it checks understanding with questions inside each module; it does not watch people work.

The course brief: what the course must achieveCopy Anchor Link

The course brief is a short summary of who the course is for, what they will learn, and how long it takes. The agents write it from your answers and your material, and you approve it. It holds everything the design rests on:

• Learners: who they are, what they can already do, and the gap the course closes.
• Learning needs and success criteria: what must be learned, and how good is good enough.
• Evidence: what your sources say, and what research found where they fall short.
• Decisions: every choice made along the way, each marked by where it came from: you, a source, or a suggestion you accepted.
• Constraints: the time available, the course language, and what must be covered.

The brief also records what kind of course you asked for: one built to reach a goal, a faithful conversion of a document you supplied, or a recreation of content from another platform. A conversion keeps to what the document says and adds nothing it does not ask for.

Your material, and researchCopy Anchor Link

Your own material comes first. Where the goal needs public knowledge your material lacks, the agents research it, unless you ask them to use only your sources. What only your organization knows, such as an internal procedure or a contact, is never invented: the agents ask you for it, or leave it as a visible gap.

The structure: the fewest modules that workCopy Anchor Link

From the brief, the agents propose the fewest modules that cover the goal. A module is one short interactive video lesson about one thing a learner can do, small enough to learn and check in one sitting: five to ten minutes by default, practice and checks included. Modules are not cut along a document's chapter headings: a long manual can support one module, and a one-page memo can need three.

Every module must earn its place. Each is tested twice: what would learners lose without it, and could it merge with its neighbour without becoming too long? Introductions, glossaries, and recaps stay only when they do real teaching.

When a request spans audiences with different needs, or a mandate that must be assigned on its own, the structure becomes several courses — a learning path — each with its own goal.

Module plans: what each module promisesCopy Anchor Link

Each module gets a plan: a one-sentence promise of what the learner will be able to do, its objectives, and its chapters. A chapter is a step towards that promise, made of screens that each carry one idea in about forty seconds of narration. The plan links every objective to the screens that teach it and the question that checks it, so nothing is tested that was not taught.

Scripts: what the learner hears and answersCopy Anchor Link

The script is the words and screens of a module. It turns the plan into narration, screen by screen, built around a realistic situation and a common mistake to avoid. Each part of the script names the source it draws on.

Questions come in three kinds: one answer, several answers, and true or false. Each question is a situation the learner will meet, with wrong answers that are tempting mistakes rather than jokes, and feedback that explains what follows from each answer. Vidext does not build free-text answers, branching simulations, or tasks the learner must go away and perform.

Before a script is used, a review checks it against the course, its plan, your request, and your sources, and names anything it contradicts, leaves out, or repeats.

Building the moduleCopy Anchor Link

Finally, each part of the script is shown as a screen, with pictures where it calls for them. The narration is recorded in the module's voice, with a presenter on some screens, and the module is built, ready for its course. You look at it in the studio and publish the course when it is right.

How you steer itCopy Anchor Link

You do not pick a teaching method. You can start from one of Home's templates as a reference, and either way you steer by answering the agents' questions, correcting decisions, and approving the course brief and the structure, or by telling the agents where to stop and where to carry on alone. See Plan a course.