🎯 Module 2: Learning Outcomes Prompts

AI prompts for articulating transfer goals, generating essential questions, and designing measurable, Bloom's-aligned learning outcomes (UbD Stage 1).

📋 How to Use These Prompts

Each prompt includes context fields in brackets that you should customize before pasting into your AI tool. The three standard fields are:

Discipline/Subject — Your teaching field (e.g., “Nursing,” “Sociology,” “Mechanical Engineering”)

Student Level — Who your learners are (e.g., “1st-year undergraduate,” “graduate,” “professional development”)

Course Context — Key details like duration, class size, and format (e.g., “15-module semester, 35 students, in-person”)

The more context you provide, the better the AI output. Replace every bracketed field with your specific information before copying.

🔄 Remember to return to DesignLab after getting your AI output! Copy the response, come back here, and continue with the next step. AI chatbots can lead you down rabbit holes—DesignLab keeps your design process structured and on track.

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Module 2: Learning Outcomes

3 prompts

Define Transfer Goals

Articulate what students will be able to do independently in the real world long after your course ends.

Stage 2 Transfer UbD

Help me articulate transfer goals for [Course Name].

Course description: [Paste your 2-3 sentence course description]

Transfer goals describe what students will be able to do independently, in the real world, long after the course ends.

Course focus: [Brief description]
Future contexts: [Where might students use this learning?]

Please generate 2-3 transfer goals using this format:
"Students will independently use their learning to..."

These should be:
- Long-term and enduring
- Applicable beyond the classroom
- Focused on autonomous performance
- Connected to real-world situations

Generate Essential Questions

Create thought-provoking, open-ended questions that recur throughout the course and connect directly to your transfer goals.

Stage 2 Essential Questions UbD

I need essential questions for my [Course Name] course.

Course description: [Paste your course description]
Transfer goals: [Paste the transfer goals you defined in Activity 1]
Big ideas/themes: [List 2-3 central concepts]

Please generate 3-5 essential questions that:
1. Are open-ended (no single right answer)
2. Are thought-provoking and spark genuine inquiry
3. Recur throughout the course
4. Connect directly to my transfer goals
5. Could be explored from multiple perspectives

For each question, briefly explain how it connects to my transfer goals and why it qualifies as "essential" rather than just topical.

Design Learning Outcomes

Generate measurable, Bloom's-aligned outcomes that support your transfer goals, address multiple learning domains, and specify what students can demonstrate by course end.

Stage 2 Learning Outcomes Bloom's

I'm designing learning outcomes for my course: [Course Name]

Course description: [Paste your course description]
Transfer goals: [Paste your transfer goals from Activity 1]
Essential questions: [Paste your essential questions from Activity 2]
Course level: [Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced]
Duration: [e.g., 15 weeks]
Key topics: [List 3-5 main topics]

Please generate 5-7 learning outcomes that:
1. Support my transfer goals and connect to my essential questions
2. Are measurable—it's clear how a student would demonstrate each one
3. Address different dimensions of learning where appropriate (cognitive skills, practical/physical skills, attitudes or values)
4. Are specific and achievable within the course timeframe
5. Follow this format: "By the end of this course, students will be able to [VERB] + [WHAT] + [CONTEXT/CONDITION]"

After generating, please identify which learning domain each outcome addresses (cognitive, affective, or psychomotor) and explain how it connects to my transfer goals.

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