Next Steps and Connecting to Supports
You’ve come to the end of our guide!
As you can probably appreciate by now, designing effective branching scenarios takes thoughtful planning, creativity, and a clear understanding of your learning goals. As you’ve worked through this guide, you’ve explored strategies for crafting a realistic context, compelling prompts, realistic choices, and meaningful consequences — all essential components of engaging scenario-based learning.
Happy designing and best of luck as you move forward with making your branching scenario vision come to life. We hope you enjoy seeing where your scenarios can take you and your students next!
✏️ Branching Scenarios Design Worksheet
To help bring your ideas to life, don’t forget to use the downloadable Branching Scenarios Design Worksheet. Whether you were filling it out as you went through this guide, or whether you left it for the end, this worksheet is designed to guide you through the process of translating your inspiration into a concrete, actionable plan. It provides space to outline outcomes, pathways, and various considerations that should help you to move forward.
🔎 USask Lens
Remember that you’re not in this alone, and that staff supports are available! If you’re a USask educator and would like some support turning your ideas into a full scenario, help is available.
Reach out to the Gwenna Moss Center for Teaching and Learning (GMCTL) team at gmctl@usask.ca to book a consultation. Our instructional designers and support staff are here to answer your questions, offer feedback, and help you confidently build branching scenarios that work for your learners.
