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ReX Smart Template | Microlearning | Use Cases and Benefits

📝 What is the Microlearning Template?

The microlearning experience is a brief, focused module designed to deliver targeted content. It lasts 15-20 minutes and covers three learning objectives. Note the pages and activities in this flow are designed for a 1 round learning experience.

🎯 When Might I Want to Use the Microlearning Template?

  • Deliver short, focused training on a specific skill, topic or gap

  • Provide just-in-time, rapid upskilling for time-constrained learners

  • Offer foundational knowledge before a live session or cohort experience

  • Reinforce learning after a workshop or onboarding to support retention.

  • Offer targeted, scenario-based practice without building a full simulation

DEMO PROJECTS: See What's Possible

✨ Explore What’s Possible with the Microlearning Template. Check out two fully built demo projects—complete with access links—to see how this template can be customized for your learners. Dive in and try them out for yourself!
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Microlearning: AI Prompt Engineering for Instructional Designers

In this 15–20 minute, hands-on experience, you’ll use AI tools to spark ideas, craft smarter prompts, and design with impact—walking away ready to prompt like a pro in L&D.

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Microlearning: AI for Learning Leaders

8 Steps To Effectively Handle Workplace Conflict

In this microlearning, you’ll make decisions as a learning leader using AI to streamline tasks, personalize learning, and stay compliant. Your goal is to boost engagement and improve outcomes with smart, strategic choices.

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💡Understand the Power Behind the Microlearning Template’s Prompting 💡


Discover how the template’s purpose-built prompts generate high-quality draft content—designed to align seamlessly with your learning goals and deliver a focused, effective experience.

High Level Design (HLD) + Learner Experience Flow

This template is perfect for situations where short, targeted, and skill-relevant content is most effective. The single-round structure with three core activities helps deliver depth on fewer topics, which aligns with research on spaced repetition, focused attention, and retention.

➤ Design Rationale for the Microlearning Template

This microlearning template set is grounded in the principles of cognitive efficiency, relevance, and decision-based practice—all essential to modern, high-impact learning.

  • Bite-sized structure of 15-20 minute seat time reduces cognitive load and keeps focus sharp, delivering only essential content to support quick understanding without overwhelm.

  • Scenario-first design promotes active learning by placing learners in realistic situations that require decision-making and application.

  • Relevance is built in—every interaction ties directly to real-world tasks or challenges learners actually face.

  • Minimal setup keeps the introduction brief, maximizing time spent in meaningful, practice-based activities.

  • Designed for single-round, high-impact delivery, this template supports focused engagement and fast, effective learning—ideal for today’s time-constrained learners.
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➤ Learning Strategy Behind This Template

The Microlearning Template is designed for focused, skill-based learning in under 20 minutes—ideal for today’s fast-paced learners. Its streamlined structure delivers impact without overload:

  • Welcome Page: Sets the tone and expectations to orient the learner quickly.

  • Intro Video, Slideshow, or Avatar Content: Delivers core concepts efficiently through multimedia, supporting diverse learning styles and reducing cognitive load.

  • Quick Check: Reinforces key concepts with immediate feedback.

  • Three Scenario-Based Activities: Builds skill through realistic decision-making, active practice, and applied learning rather than passive reading.

  • End-of-Learning Summary & Skill Feedback: Provides targeted performance feedback to reinforce growth and support continued growth beyond the module.

Together, these elements create a concise, high-impact experience that reinforces essential knowledge, promotes behavior change, and fits easily into busy schedules.

➤ Flow and Activity Structure

  • Welcome + Resources: Establishes learning expectations and provides optional reference materials to support just-in-time learning

  • Introduction Video: Captures attention and sets the tone, providing a clear and engaging overview of what’s to come.

  • Slideshow with Knowledge Check: Presents core information in a digestible, visual format and ends with a brief knowledge check to reinforce retention before decision-based activities begin.

  • Scenario Activity: Introduces a realistic situation and opinions or perspective from other people, offering relatable context and drawing the learner into the scenario to increase investment and understanding.

  • Course of Action: Offers a chance to apply judgment by choosing a path forward in a realistic setting, reinforcing the impact of decisions.

  • List Builder: Promotes synthesis by asking learners to evaluate options and reflect on their reasoning with decision rationale.

  • End-of-Learning Summary: Reinforces key takeaways and helps consolidate learning.

💡 Can I Add or Modify Activities Within the Pre-built Flow?

Yes! While this template includes a core set of recommended activities, you’re welcome to add more to enhance the experience. For example, you can pull in a Conversation or Video Branching activity OR any of the other activity options.

💡 Can I modify the theme, colors, or pictures in Studio?

Yes! When your course is exported to Studio, it comes pre-built with a modern, dark-themed design. While you can customize colors and images, we recommend working within the dark theme framework. The Microlearning course uses hard-coded title colors optimized for dark backgrounds, so shifting to a full light theme may require extensive adjustments. Instead, make subtle tweaks to align with your brand while maintaining compatibility with the dark theme.


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➤ Scoring Approach

This template uses a correct/incorrect or optimal/suboptimal scoring model to support clear, confident decision-making. It’s ideal for reinforcing right vs. wrong choices—perfect for compliance, onboarding, or targeted skill development. This structure helps learners build confidence and accuracy through practice, feedback, and refinement.

Key benefits of this scoring approach:

  • Encourages clear decisions and reinforces what “good” looks like

  • Supports consistent, meaningful scoring that reflects learner proficiency

  • Delivers clear feedback to prompt reflection and improvement

  • Aligns easily with Studio scoring tools for smooth authoring and export

Each activity includes: (exported in this order to SimGate Studio)

  • One correct answer to guide learners toward optimal decisions

  • Two plausible distractors to address common errors or misconceptions

  • For example - in the ReX Content Download document, you will see the answer options tagged with the scoring approach:

Auto-Generated Scoring Model

💡 Note: When you export your project to Studio, it comes pre-configured with a default scoring model. Upon import, the scoring model is automatically initialized, and gauges are linked to the appropriate variables.


This template set uses a single-metric, right/wrong scoring model:

  • Correct answers: 3 points

  • Incorrect answers: 0 points

Once imported, the scoring model and gauges are ready to use. You can adjust the scoring in Studio after import if needed.
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Important: Scoring applies only when creating new projects from this template set.

See it in action—watch the video for a walkthrough in the tools.
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📚 Looking for More Ways to Use This Template Effectively?

  • Quick skill refreshers (e.g., how to respond to customer objections)

  • Pre- or post-work (e.g., following a classroom or virtual session)

  • Behavioral nudges (e.g., DEI awareness or micro-ethics moments)

  • Performance support (e.g., just-in-time coaching on using a tool or process)

  • Soft skill practice (e.g., giving feedback, time management choices)

  • Behavioral or knowledge reinforcement (e.g., where practice doing the right thing or knowing the right thing in context matters more than deep exploration.)

FAQ

What prompt questions will I need to answer to complete the Microlearning prerequisites?

How does an author know if they are completing the prompts correctly?

  • About Prerequisite Prompts:
    Prerequisite prompts are designed to gather accurate and necessary information from the author to support the development of the learning experience. While the content entered in these prompts does not directly appear in the final learning experience, it plays a critical role in shaping and informing the content.

  • Ensuring Accuracy and Alignment:
    Prerequisite prompts often include overviews or checklists to help authors align their input with the intended learning goals. Authors are encouraged to review and edit their responses to ensure ReX has the correct context to create an effective learning experience.

  • Exploring Options:
    Authors can always adjust their inputs and regenerate the steps to see different outputs based on revised choices. This flexibility allows for iterative improvements and tailored results.


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