The Course Architect Toolkit
The Cognitive Load Auditor
Pillar V protects the working-memory budget.
What it does
Pillar V protects the working-memory budget. Allocate where your lesson's cognitive load actually goes — and cut the waste.
Before and after
How to use it
- Estimate how your lesson's cognitive load splits across the three types, and justify each. The auditor flags the load you can cut — extraneous load is wasted working memory. Allocate 100% of a typical lesson's cognitive demand across the three types, and justify each estimate.