← Training videos with AI
Prompt library
Every starter prompt from the course, in lesson order. Each lesson explains when to use its prompts.
Lesson 1
Does it need a video, and a presenter?
Format interview
I need to teach a process at work: [describe the process, its steps, and who must learn it]. Interview me, one question at a time, to decide the right format. Ask how often the process changes, which steps are clicks and which are judgment calls, where people will use what they learn, and whether the topic involves AI, security or ethics. Then recommend one of these: a step-by-step screenshot guide, a narrated screen recording, a video with a presenter, or a guide plus a short video. Give the reason in two sentences. Do not assume facts I have not given you. If you need a fact, ask for it.
Run the substitution test
Here is a description of a training module: [paste the topic, the audience and an outline]. Apply the substitution test: would the module still work if every learner believed the presenter was not a real person? Answer yes, no or unsure, with one reason. Then say whether the topic involves AI, security, ethics or a sensitive people issue, where an AI presenter can cost trust. If the answer is unsure, describe a two-version pilot with about 30 learners and the same test questions for both versions. Do not recommend a vendor.
Lesson 2
Write the check first
Objective to scenario questions
Here is the learning objective for a training video: [paste your objective]. Here is the process it teaches: [paste the process document or the steps]. Here are mistakes people make with this process: [list real mistakes]. Write [3 to 5] multiple-choice scenario questions. Each question describes a realistic situation from the job and asks what the learner should do. Each question must contain every fact the right answer depends on, such as dates, amounts and stock levels. Use the mistakes I listed as the wrong options, and say which mistake each wrong option represents. Use only rules from the process document. If a rule is unclear or missing, write "GAP:" and describe what is missing instead of guessing.
Check my questions
Review these scenario questions and their answers: [paste the questions]. For each question, list every fact the right answer depends on, and say whether the question gives that fact. Flag any question a careful learner could get wrong because information is missing. Flag any question that tests recall of a fact instead of a decision. Flag any wrong option that no real person would choose. Do not rewrite the questions. List the problems.
Make the objective observable
Here is a draft learning objective: [paste it]. Rewrite it so it names what the learner will do, under what conditions, and to what standard. Keep it to one sentence. If the draft holds two objectives, say so and suggest how to split it. Do not add anything the draft does not imply.
Lesson 3
Script for the ear
Draft a script from the process document
Write the narration for one segment of a training video. Use only the process document in this project, or this one: [paste the process document]. The learning objective is: [paste the objective]. The segment must prepare learners to answer these scenario questions: [paste the questions]. Write [segment name], about [length] minutes when read aloud. Speak to the learner as "you", and use "we" for the team. Use short spoken sentences. Describe what the screen shows at each step. Leave out history, background and anything the questions do not need. Mark on-screen key words in [brackets], a few words each, never full sentences. Do not invent any rule, number or step. Where the document does not say, write "GAP:" and the question I need to ask.
Read it as a listener
Here is a draft narration script: [paste the script]. Review it as someone who will hear it once and cannot reread. List: sentences over 20 words; formal or passive phrasing to rewrite in spoken words; any sentence that does not help with these questions: [paste the questions]; any place where the narration does not say what is on screen; and every product code, name, acronym or term that a synthetic voice could mispronounce. Do not rewrite the script. List each problem with one suggested fix.
Project instructions for script drafts
You draft narration scripts for training videos at [organization]. Use only the documents in this project. Never invent a rule, step, number or name. Mark anything the documents do not cover as "GAP:" with the question to ask. Write in a conversational style: "you" for the learner, "we" for the team, short spoken sentences. The narration describes what the screen shows. On-screen text is key words only, in [brackets]. Cut anything the learning objective does not need. End every draft with a pronunciation list of each product code, name and acronym, and how it should sound.
Lesson 4
Storyboard the segments
Script to storyboard
Here is a locked narration script for one segment of a training video: [paste the script]. Turn it into a storyboard table with these columns: row number, start and end time, narration phrase, what the screen shows, on-screen key words, and notes. Rules: on-screen key words must repeat a phrase the narration says in that row, and appear when it is said. Keep key words to five words or fewer. Show one complete worked example before any question for the learner. Add a pause row where the learner answers questions. Mark any frame that would need generated footage of people, objects or readable text, and suggest a screen recording or a real photo instead. Do not change the narration. If the script does not say what the screen shows, write "GAP".
Plan the segments
Here is my locked script and my learning objective: [paste both]. Suggest where to split the script into segments of about 6 minutes or less. Each segment should end at a natural decision point, followed by scenario questions. Give the break points and a one-line purpose for each segment. Do not add or change content.
Contact-sheet review
Here are still frames from my draft video, one per storyboard row, with the narration for each: [attach the frames and paste the narration]. For each frame, check: does it show what the narration describes; are the key words spelled correctly and the same words the narration uses; is any text too small or garbled to read; does any generated image show something physically wrong. List problems by row number. Do not suggest new content.
Lesson 5
Voice, avatar or screen recording
Compare production routes
I am planning a training video. Here is my plan: [paste the objective, the script length in minutes, the number of learners, how often the process changes, the languages needed, and whether the video has a presenter]. Here are the prices and plan limits I read today on each vendor's own pricing page, with the date: [paste them]. Compare three routes: screen recording with a human voice, screen recording with an AI voice, and an avatar platform. For each route, give the cost for one month, the work each script change needs, whether I can export SCORM, and the consent work involved. Use only the prices I gave you. If a price or limit is missing, write "check the live page". Do not recommend a vendor I did not list.
Build a pronunciation test script
Here is my pronunciation list: [paste each term and how it should sound]. Write a 30-second test script for a text-to-speech voice. Use every term at least twice: once at the start of a sentence and once in the middle. For each term, suggest a respelling that a voice tool is less likely to misread, and mark each suggestion as a guess for me to test by ear. Do not add terms I did not give you.
Lesson 6
Consent and disclosure
Draft a likeness release for counsel
Draft a separate written release for using [person's name]'s [face / voice / both] in AI-generated training video. Include: the specific videos and uses [list them]; the channels where the videos appear [list them]; the duration and a review date [date]; what happens when the person leaves the company; how the person withdraws consent and what gets deleted; and a statement that saying no carries no penalty, with this alternative: [describe it]. Mark every place where local law may change the wording with [ASK COUNSEL]. Do not state that the release complies with any law. This draft is for a lawyer to review.
Write the disclosure line
Write a disclosure line for the start of a training video. The video uses [an AI voice / an AI avatar / generated footage], and [who] wrote and checked the script. The line must be one or two sentences, under 10 seconds when spoken, and plain enough to put in captions and in the course description. Give three versions. Do not say the content is approved or accurate unless I tell you who approved it: [name the approver, or write "no approval"].
Lesson 7
Captions, QA and packaging
Build my QA checklist
Here is my video plan: [paste the script, the pronunciation list, the list of shots marked as screen recording, photo, avatar or generated, and the disclosure line]. Write a QA checklist for the final render, in the order I should check. Include facts, every pronunciation-list term by segment, lip-sync if there is an avatar, a frame check for each generated shot, the captions against the audio, and the disclosure. Do not add facts about my process. Where my plan is missing something the checklist needs, write "missing" and say what.
Turn my script into captions
Here is my approved script: [paste it]. Here is my pronunciation list, with the written form and the spoken respelling of each term: [paste it]. Turn the script into caption text, with no more than two short lines per caption. Keep every word of the script unchanged, except that each respelling becomes its written form. Do not add timings, because I will time the captions against the audio. List every line you split in an awkward place.
Lesson 8
Check that it worked
Write a parallel question set
Here are my learning objective and my scenario questions, with answers: [paste them]. For each question, write one parallel question that tests the same decision with different surface details: a different customer, item, date or reason. Keep the difficulty the same. Where a rule has a limit, such as a deadline, put the new case near the limit. Use only facts about the process that appear in my questions or in this policy text: [paste the policy]. Mark any fact you need but do not have as [CHECK].
Draft a manager checklist
Here are the steps of the task my training video teaches: [paste the steps]. Write a three-item checklist a manager can use while watching an employee do the task during a normal shift. Each item must be an action the manager can see, answered yes or no, with space for a note. Do not include items about attitude or understanding.
Read my results
Here are my results: [for each question, paste how many answered right after the video and how many were correct, then the same for the delayed set; then paste the manager checklist counts and notes]. For each question, say whether the score held, fell or stayed low, and which part of the script or storyboard to recheck. Do not guess causes the numbers cannot show. Flag any result where the group is too small to read with confidence.