Coursework›LDTC 615 · 8-unit course · Summer 2026

UX/UI Design

Course: LDTC 615 · 8-unit course · Summer 2026

Unit 01

Unit 1 · Introduce Yourself & Minicourse

Assignment · IDD Check, LMS Declaration, and Storyboard Sketch

Working draft · IDD check, LMS declaration, storyboard sketch

The minicourse. Digital Foundations is the entry module of the Getting Ready to Work with AI pathway. It sits one layer below AI literacy: most working adults have never configured a password manager, enabled two-factor authentication, or thought about what data leaves their device when they type a prompt. The audience is adults aged 25 to 55, mobile-first and time-constrained — Maria, a 47-year-old office manager, and Devon, a 29-year-old warehouse lead. Every objective sits at the Apply level or above; learners do not read about enabling 2FA, they enable it during the lesson.

Course learning objectives

01Identify device, account, and data risks using the prompt-as-egress frame
02Configure a password manager, 2FA, full-disk encryption, and automatic backup
03Apply a redact-or-rephrase workflow before sending content to an AI tool
04Interpret an AI vendor privacy and retention policy in 90 seconds
05Construct a one-page device, accounts, and data map (the UbD capstone)
06Evaluate a new AI tool against the Digital Foundations baseline

The LMS, as a design decision. Platform selection is a design decision, not an administrative one. For an audience that is mostly on a phone, the LMS has to render procedural steps cleanly on a small screen, track completion at the activity level to drive the revision loop, stay low-friction for non-students, and accept SCORM or xAPI packages. The mobile requirement is a hard constraint: Pew reports that 76% of adults in households under $30,000 are smartphone-dependent for internet access, so a platform that treats mobile as secondary locks Devon out entirely. I declared TalentLMS as the primary path, with a lightweight hosted web app kept as a parallel prototype to test against.

The storyboard. One lesson — enabling 2FA — sketched in a four-screen pattern that repeats across every configuration lesson so the structure stays predictable and cognitive load stays low.

Context frame

One illustration, one plain-language reason. Your password is one lock; 2FA adds a second. No decorative imagery.

Demonstration

A 30–45 second annotated screen recording of the exact steps, with a text transcript below it for WCAG 2.2 AA.

Guided practice

Split screen: the persistent step list on the left, a prompt to do it on their own account on the right. Self-report confirms completion.

Confirmation check

A single applied question on a real confirmation screen, with immediate, specific, non-shaming feedback and a one-screen remediation branch.

The guided-practice screen uses self-report because authentic task performance on a learner's own live account cannot be system-verified — the same honor-based competency confirmation used in Combat Lifesaver certification, where it does not reduce transfer when the task is immediately consequential. Enabling 2FA on your own account is about as consequential as a task gets.

Unit 02