A project outline is almost always required in your project plan. Unless your video is very short and comprises only one topic or idea, an outline will help you organize your material in a logical way that will immediately make sense for your learners. After all, you would not want to tell them how to exit the software before you tell them how to log in, would you?

An outline does more than establish the sequence of events you will be covering. It will also identify gaps and help you to sort topics and subtopics appropriately. Think of it as a table of contents for your video categorizing main topics and minor topics beneath them.

In the case of an instructional video, the outline is the same as a learning plan a teacher would prepare for his or her academic class. The purpose is to plan the topics to be covered in the proper sequence. As in any creative process, outlining your project before starting is an important step. It helps you organize your thoughts, always with...