Instructional Design · Rise 360 · AI Adoption · Healthcare
Work Smarter with Gemini —
Rise 360 Portfolio Course
A self-paced Rise 360 course built as a portfolio piece — a practical, focused guide to creating Gemini Gems for employees at a large health organization, developed after completing Gemini Gem creation training at LearningMate.
The Project
From internal training to portfolio artifact
During Phase 1 of my SME contract with LearningMate — a content development engagement for the Chegg Skills web development certification program — LearningMate delivered internal Gemini training to all SMEs on the project. The training was a structured walkthrough of building custom AI assistants within Google Gemini for recurring tasks.
Going through that training as a learner gave me a clear view of how the content could be adapted into a real workforce learning experience. I used it as the starting point for this portfolio piece: a stripped-down, practical Rise 360 course designed for employees at a large health organization — focused specifically on what someone in a healthcare workplace setting needs to know to build and use a Gem for a task they do every week.
The healthcare framing shapes the content throughout — the examples, the use cases, and the tone all reflect the context of a large, compliance-aware organization where AI adoption needs to be practical, grounded, and trustworthy. The course keeps scope narrow by design: one tool, one use case, one real deliverable.
Gemini
Rise 360 · Portfolio
Instructional Design · LearningMate
Healthcare Context · Gemini Gems
3 Sections · 9 Lessons
Course Structure
Three sections, nine lessons
The course moves from Gemini fundamentals to daily practice to building a custom Gem — keeping the scope narrow and the application direct.
What is Gemini and Why It Matters
Introduces Gemini in a healthcare workplace context — what it is, what it's designed to help with, and why it's relevant to how staff already work. Includes an interactive element and knowledge check.
Your First Prompts
Covers the fundamentals of prompt writing — how to structure a prompt, what makes a prompt effective, and how to iterate. Grounded in scenarios that reflect real health organization workflows.
Gemini in Your Daily Workflow
Moves from isolated prompts to integrated practice — showing how Gemini fits into recurring tasks like drafting communications, summarizing documents, and preparing for meetings.
Best Practices and Getting Started
Closes the first section with practical guidance — including accuracy habits, privacy and compliance considerations relevant to healthcare, and how to build confidence through low-stakes practice.
What is a Gemini Gem?
Introduces Gemini Gems — custom AI assistants built for specific recurring tasks. Covers what Gems are, when to use them, and what makes a strong Gem use case in a health organization context.
Setting Up Your Weekly Status Report Gem
A step-by-step walkthrough of building a real Gem — a weekly status report assistant. Covers writing the system prompt, setting instructions, and configuring the Gem for consistent output.
Testing and Refining Your Gem
Covers the iteration process — how to test a Gem with real inputs, evaluate the output, and refine the system prompt when the results need adjustment.
Your Assignment
A practical capstone: learners use their Gem to generate a real weekly status report with their own work context. The assignment bridges course learning and immediate on-the-job application.
Reflection and Next Steps
Closes the course with a reflection activity and forward-looking guidance — helping learners identify other recurring tasks where a Gem could save time and build a habit of continued AI skill development.
Interactive Course
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Design Approach
What shaped the instructional design decisions
A few intentional choices define how this course is structured:
Scope limited to Gem creation, not all of Gemini.
A course that tries to teach everything about Gemini ends up teaching nothing well. This course starts with just enough context to make sense of Gems, then goes deep on the one thing that changes behavior: building and using a Gem for a task you do every week.
Healthcare context throughout — not generic business scenarios.
Employees at a large health organization have a specific work context: compliance awareness, high documentation load, and recurring administrative tasks. The examples and use cases reflect that reality, which makes the content feel relevant rather than theoretical.
Consistent lesson structure reduces cognitive load for self-paced learners.
Every lesson follows the same pattern — concept introduction, interactive element, applied context, knowledge check. When learners know what to expect from each lesson, they spend less mental energy navigating the course and more actually processing the content.
Ending with a real deliverable, not a final quiz.
The capstone assignment asks learners to use their Gem with their own actual work — a real status report, not a sample scenario. That transfer from course to job is the outcome that matters, and designing explicitly for it is what makes training stick.
Measurement Plan
How I'd know if it worked
A course that can't be measured can't be improved. If this course were deployed inside a health organization, here's how I'd close the loop — using the Kirkpatrick model as the evaluation framework:
Level 1 — Reactions (immediate)
A 5-item post-course survey in Typeform or Google Forms measuring satisfaction, perceived relevance, and confidence: "I could build a Gem for a task I do this week." Triggered automatically at course completion in Rise 360. Baseline target: 80% of learners rating confidence at 4/5 or higher.
Level 2 — Learning (built into the course)
Knowledge checks are already embedded throughout. The capstone assignment — building and using a real Gem with their own work — is the primary L2 evidence: learners either produce a working Gem or they don't. Any knowledge check with a high failure rate signals a lesson that needs redesign.
Level 3 — Behavior Transfer (30 and 60 days post-training)
A brief manager check-in or self-report survey: "Which recurring tasks are you using a Gem for? How often?" This is the hardest data to collect and the most meaningful. A course that scores well on L1 and L2 but shows no L3 behavior change points to a transfer problem — usually a gap between course scenarios and real work context.
Level 4 — Results (organizational)
Harder to attribute directly, but trackable indicators include: number of Gems created per employee at 60 days, self-reported time saved on administrative tasks, and overall AI tool adoption rate in the department. These would require partnership with an IT or operations team to track.
Reactions
Did learners find it relevant and usable?
Learning
Can they build and use a Gem correctly?
Behavior
Are they using Gems 30–60 days later?
Results
Is recurring task time decreasing?
Reflection
Turning a training experience into a design artifact
Going through the Gem creation training at LearningMate as a learner was a useful vantage point. I noticed what made the training effective, where it left gaps, and how it could be adapted for a specific organizational context — a large health organization where employees have a clear recurring-task problem that Gems are well-suited to solve.
That's where this portfolio piece came from: taking a training experience, identifying what a more contextually grounded version of it would look like for a specific audience, and building it. The result is a course that's narrower in scope than the original training — by design — because a narrower scope with a concrete outcome is more likely to change behavior than a broad survey of features.
Portfolio project — Rise 360 course on Gemini Gem creation for a large health organization. Developed following Gemini training at LearningMate.
Rise
Articulate Rise 360
Portfolio · LearningMate
AI Adoption · Google Gemini
Healthcare · Gemini Gems
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