Instructional designer / corporate trainer

Course outline designer

Immediate result: A course outline with outcomes, modules, activities, assessments and time per module.

Problem it solvesCourses grow topic by topic without clear outcomes, so learners finish without new skills.

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You paste

6-hour course: Excel for new finance hires

You get

Outcome: build a monthly expense report with SUMIFS and a pivot table without help.

Module 3 (75 min): lookups — XLOOKUP · activity: match invoices to vendors

Final project: reconcile a month of sample transactions.

About this skill

About Course outline designer

Courses that grow topic by topic leave learners finishing without new skills. This skill starts from what learners should be able to do afterwards, writes three to five outcomes with action verbs from Bloom's taxonomy, and sequences modules from foundations to application. Each module gets content, an activity, an assessment and a time estimate, and the course ends with a final project that proves the outcomes. It suits instructional designers, trainers and teachers planning a new course. To use it, paste the skill into your assistant and send the course topic, audience, total time and what learners should be able to do afterwards; the reply opens with “Outcomes”.

Course outline designer AI skill for Instructional designer / corporate trainer: you paste "6-hour course: Excel for new finance hires" and get "Outcome: build a monthly expense report with SUMIFS and a pivot table without help."
Course outline designer — example input and the first lines it returns. Works in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.
Job profile
Education & training · Instructional designer / corporate trainer
Works in
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Claude Code
Format
Agent Skills (SKILL.md)
Price
Free, no sign-up
Install instructions

Copy, paste, send

  1. Cold email writerCopy skillCopied ✓1 Copy the skillPress Copy skill.
  2. ANY AI ASSISTANTSKILLPaste here, then press Enter2 Paste it into a new chatChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot.
  3. ANY AI ASSISTANT3 Send your inputSend the course topic.
The skill — paste this into your AI assistant
# Skill: Course outline designer

You are running the "Course outline designer" skill for me. I work as: Instructional designer / corporate trainer. What I need from you: a course outline with outcomes, modules, activities, assessments and time per module.

## When I send you the course topic, audience, total time and what learners should be able to do afterwards
1. Write three to five learning outcomes using action verbs (Bloom's taxonomy).
2. Sequence modules from foundations to application.
3. Add an activity and assessment per module.
4. Estimate time per module.

## Reply in this format
- Outcomes
- Module table: module, outcome, content, activity, assessment, time
- Final project

## Rules
- Use only the facts I give you; mark anything you had to assume with [ASSUMPTION].
- If something essential is missing, ask me one short question, then continue.
- No preamble or filler: start with the result.

Confirm you're ready in one line, then wait for me to send the course topic, audience, total time and what learners should be able to do afterwards.

Then sendThe course topic, audience, total time and what learners should be able to do afterwards. For example: 6-hour course: Excel for new finance hires

ChatGPT

  1. Fastest: paste the skill as your first message in a new chat, then send your input.
  2. To keep it: open a Project, choose Instructions (or Settings → Personalization → Custom instructions for every chat) and paste it there.
  3. To share it with a team: create a custom GPT and paste the skill into its Instructions.
  4. In the Codex app: copy the skill's folder into ~/.codex/skills/ (or Customize → Skills → Add → Create skill).

Claude

  1. Fastest: paste the skill as your first message in a new chat, then send your input.
  2. To keep it: create a Project, open Project instructions and paste the skill.
  3. As a Claude Skill: download the skill's ZIP, then in Claude open Settings → Skills → Add → Upload skill and choose the file.

Gemini

  1. Fastest: paste the skill as your first message in a new chat, then send your input.
  2. To keep it: open Gems → New Gem, paste the skill into Instructions and save.

Microsoft Copilot

  1. Fastest: paste the skill as your first message, then send your input.
  2. In Microsoft 365 Copilot, save it as a prompt or paste it into an agent's instructions to reuse it.

Any other assistant

  1. Paste the skill as the system prompt or first message in any chat assistant (Perplexity, Meta AI, DeepSeek, Mistral, local models).
  2. Coding agents that read the Agent Skills format (SKILL.md) can load the downloaded file from their skills folder.

Install it permanently

Upload it to Claude, add it to ChatGPT's Codex app, clone it into Claude Code, or download the SKILL.md for any agent. Full guide with screenshots →

Download the ZIP and upload it in Claude. Claude then uses the skill on its own whenever a request matches.

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Quick setup

  1. In Claude, open Settings → Skills (under Customize).
  2. Click Add → Upload skill.
  3. Choose the ZIP — don't unzip it — and make sure the skill is switched on.
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What it does

The steps it follows

  1. Write three to five learning outcomes using action verbs (Bloom's taxonomy).
  2. Sequence modules from foundations to application.
  3. Add an activity and assessment per module.
  4. Estimate time per module.
What you get back

The reply format

  • Outcomes
  • Module table: module, outcome, content, activity, assessment, time
  • Final project
FAQs

Questions about Course outline designer

What does the Course outline designer skill do?

Courses grow topic by topic without clear outcomes, so learners finish without new skills. The skill fixes that: a course outline with outcomes, modules, activities, assessments and time per module.

How do I install Course outline designer in ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini?

Copy the skill and paste it as the first message of a new chat, then send your input. To keep it, paste it into a ChatGPT Project or custom GPT, a Claude Project or a Gemini Gem, or upload the SKILL.md file as a Claude Skill.

What do I send Course outline designer after installing it?

Send the course topic, audience, total time and what learners should be able to do afterwards. If something essential is missing, the skill asks you one short question and then continues.

Is the Course outline designer skill free?

Yes. It's free to copy, use and adapt, with no sign-up, and works in the free versions of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot.

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