Show Off Your Skills with Digital Credentials 🏅
The IDOL Academy℠ program helps you develop your skills and instructional design job application assets through five levels of credentials.
IDOL courses® partners with Credly to provide digital credentials on the Acclaim platform, which empowers individuals to capture opportunities and enables organizations to measure impact.
IDOL Academy℠ uses the power of Acclaim for your benefit. It provides you with widely recognized digital credentials to represent the skills you demonstrate in our program.
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In the 12-month program at IDOL Academy℠, students must pass eight milestone assignments reviewed by our faculty before they can apply for graduation with the Certified Professional in Training and Performance certificate.
We have a long history of successful alumni who have graduated from our program and become successful professionals in their respective fields. We proudly offer industry-recognized credentials proving you are qualified for career success.
IDOL Academy℠ Certified Professional in Training & Performance: Graduation Certificate
(24 CEUs)
These accomplished individuals possess the expertise to conduct comprehensive performance analysis, enabling them to identify goals, pinpoint gaps, and seize opportunities. Leveraging their skills, they design and develop targeted performance improvement solutions that effectively bridge performance gaps.
Furthermore, these candidates excel at partnering with businesses by taking a holistic approach. They demonstrate their value by conducting thorough needs assessments, analyzing pertinent data, effectively communicating with stakeholders, problem-solving with finesse, facilitating smooth processes, and providing coaching to enhance performance.
By earning this esteemed credential, these professionals stand as trusted partners in driving organizational success through their commitment to excellence and their ability to create impactful learning and development initiatives.
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Internship Completion
Earners have demonstrated the ability to be proficient in conducting performance analysis to identify goals, gaps, and opportunities over six-months. They are skillful at designing and developing effective performance improvement solutions to bridge performance gaps. Earners can collaborate with businesses to create end-to-end workplace learning solutions for clients and companies. Earners can employ effective project management techniques to meet deadlines and deliver learning solutions.
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Instructional Designer
Earners have demonstrated proficiency in conducting thorough needs assessments to identify training requirements. Earners have the ability to develop clear and concise instructional scripts that keep the problem or complex task at the center of the instruction. Earners have demonstrated competence in various assessment methods, incorporating scenarios, following the ADDIE framework, and collaborating with SMEs and stakeholders to gather relevant information.
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Learning Architect
Earners have demonstrated the ability to develop a clear course blueprint and instructional design documents with well-defined objectives that align with desired performance outcomes. Earners are able to define learning outcomes and develop mechanisms to measure learner progress and achievement. These candidates are able to structure learning, sequence learning events, identify and select delivery formats, and design formative and summative assessments.
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Learning Experience Designer
Earners have demonstrated the ability to develop a comprehensive visual guide and storyboard for eLearning that outlines every element of the online course. These candidates are able to craft course objectives, sequence content, write scripts, include visual elements for each slide, identify and select eLearning interactions, write straightforward navigation instructions, write technical specifications, implement assessments and accessibility, and consider the learner experience as a whole.
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Visual Designer
Earners have demonstrated the ability to create visually captivating and highly effective learning solutions that engage learners and elevate the overall learning experience. Candidates possess an eye for aesthetics, using colors, typography, layouts, and imagery to convey instruction in a visually appealing way. Earners have demonstrated their proficiency in graphic design software to transform complex concepts into visually digestible content that is accessible.
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Rapid Prototyping
Earners have demonstrated a deep understanding of iterative design processes and acquired the skills to create highly effective and engaging learning solutions to share with stakeholders and learners through rapid prototyping. These candidates can rapidly prototype a learning solution to allow for quick iterations and feedback cycles to ensure the timely delivery of effective learning experiences. Earners can design interactive prototypes that convey information and continuous improvements.
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Instructor-Led Training
Proficient earners showcase their aptitude in crafting comprehensive in-person and virtual instructor-led training programs. These programs encompass everything from a well-crafted presentation deck to facilitator and participant guides. Moreover, candidates possess the ability to design engaging training activities and equip trainers and participants with clear instructions, concise content summaries, detailed activity descriptions, and supplementary materials.
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eLearning Developer
Earners have demonstrated the ability to complete workplace learning solutions from start to finish for either a client or company.
Earners are able to conduct performance analysis to identify goals, gaps, or opportunities and use their skills to design and develop performance improvement solutions to address performance gaps.
These candidates are able to partner with businesses by performing a needs assessment, data analysis, communication, problem-solving, facilitation, and coaching.
Certified Professional in Training & Performance
When you meet the requirements for graduation, you also have access to the certificate.
Earners of the Certified Professional in Training and Performance credential have proven their proficiency in completing end-to-end workplace learning solutions, showcasing their ability to deliver exceptional results for clients or organizations.
These accomplished individuals possess the expertise to conduct comprehensive performance analysis, enabling them to identify goals, pinpoint gaps, and seize opportunities. Leveraging their skills, they design and develop targeted performance improvement solutions that effectively bridge performance gaps.
✨Additional Badges You Can Earn in IDOL Academy℠ ✨
Storyline® for IDOLs®: Articulate Storyline® Skilled
By the end of this course students are skilled in the Articulate Storyline® software.
They are able to identify and interact with the user interface, create their first project, add buttons and hotspots, add layers and lightboxes, add drag and drop interactions, create user input interactions, insert media and audio, add animations and transitions, create quizzes, and publish the files for review, the LMS, or in HTML formats.
Learners demonstrate and apply each skill throughout the course.
IDOL® Movie Magic™: Professional Vyond® Animations
Earners are able to create professional Vyond® animations. They know how to use the Vyond® software and apply the basic principles of animation to their videos.
These candidates have demonstrated the correct application of the principal features of Vyond. They are able to design and develop an animation in Vyond® for a variety of purposes and situations.
Genially® for IDOLs®: Genially® Skilled
By the end of this course students are skilled in the Genailly® eLearning software.
They are able to identify and interact with the user interface, create their first project, add buttons, hotspots, layers, and lightboxes, add drag and drop interactions, create scenarios and games, insert media and audio, add animations and transitions, create quizzes, and publish the files for review, embed, or in HTML formats.
Learners demonstrate and apply each skill throughout the course.
IDOL 💚 Canva Skilled
By the end of this course, students are skilled in the Canva graphic design application. They are able to identify and interact with the user interface, create their first project, add elements, images, animations, and publish to social media or download them directly.
Learners are also able to use Canva's advanced features to create videos, gifs, animations, presentations, and create eLearning assets.
Camtasia Skilled
Earners have demonstrated the ability to start with a provided script and voiceover to develop high-quality videos with TechSmith's Camtasia software.
Earners are able to create intros, outros, scenes, annotations, add music, select animations, apply transitions, and render videos appropriate for the platform. These candidates are skilled in video production and editing with Camtasia.
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Mentor
The IDOL Academy℠ is the only implementation program of its kind that not only shows you exactly how to create your job application assets and build a portfolio from scratch, but it also includes credentials, mentorship, and paid experience opportunities in instructional design and online learning.
The IDOL® Mentors are selected alumni from the Academy who reached their instructional design goals in the program and encourage others with support and feedback along their journey.
IDOL Academy℠ Coach
The IDOL Academy℠ is the only implementation program of its kind that not only shows you exactly how to create your job application assets and build a portfolio from scratch, but it also includes credentials, mentorship, and paid experience opportunities in instructional design and online learning.
The Academy Coaches are selected alumni from the Academy who reached their instructional design goals in the program and encourage others with support and feedback along their journey.
IDOL courses Academy℠ Learning Designer (3 CEUs)
Earners have demonstrated the ability to apply the instructional design ADDIE process to create an online portfolio and a minimum of 3 separate learning designs. Earners are able to select, edit, design, and modify a website.
These candidates are able to analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate learning designs for a corporate audience. Earners are also able to pass an assessment for their knowledge of instructional design principles and theories.
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Level 1: eLearning Development
Earners have demonstrated the ability to start with a provided storyboard and develop all the assets for course design. Earners are able to create job aids, instructional scripts, animations in Vyond®, and screen capture videos.
These candidates are able to create and edit eLearning courses in the Articulate Storyline® authoring tool using both basic and advanced interactions for a variety of purposes and situations.
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Level 2: Instructional Designer
Earners have demonstrated the ability to work with clients and subject matter experts to evaluate problems and design sound learning solutions. Earners are able to complete a needs assessment, identify an appropriate learning approach, apply learning theory, design a learning solution, analyze select technologies, and evaluate learning design.
These candidates are able to analyze problems and design learning solutions for a variety of purposes and situations.
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Level 3: IDOL Consultant
Earners have demonstrated the ability to work with clients and subject matter experts to evaluate problems and design sound learning solutions.
Earners are able to justify and describe their design thinking through case studies added to assets on their online portfolio.
These candidates are able to identify, select, and implement the appropriate technologies to serve the best interest of the organization and its learners.
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Level 4: Master IDOL
Earners have demonstrated the ability to complete workplace learning solutions from start to finish for either a client or company.
Earners are able to conduct performance analysis to identify goals, gaps, or opportunities and use their skills to design and develop performance improvement solutions to address performance gaps.
These candidates are able to partner with businesses by performing a needs assessment, data analysis, communication, problem-solving, facilitation, and coaching.
