New free tool: Storyboard Analyzer grades your storyboard in under a second

We shipped something this week, and it is free: Storyboard Analyzer. Upload a .docx or .pptx storyboard and it hands back thirteen scored judgments on the instructional design - are the objectives measurable, does the content on every screen actually support them, is it chunked for a human attention span, do the knowledge checks test what they claim - in under a second.

No account. No upload limit. Nothing stored: the file is held in memory for the analysis and discarded straight after. Nothing is written to disk.

Why a storyboard tool

Most review pain in eLearning starts earlier than the review. By the time a course reaches stakeholders, the structural mistakes - vague objectives, screens that don't support them, knowledge checks that test recall when the objective said "apply" - have been baked in for weeks. Fixing them at the storyboard stage costs an afternoon. Fixing them after development costs a rebuild.

The storyboard is also the least-reviewed artifact in the whole process. It gets skimmed, approved in a meeting, and turned into a build ticket. A fast, structured second opinion at that exact moment is the cheapest quality gate a team can add.

What it actually does

The Analyzer reads the storyboard and returns thirteen separate judgments, each with a score, across four areas: objective alignment, structure and pacing, assessment quality, and general instructional design practice. It is not a chatbot and it does not write prose at you - each judgment is a direct answer with a confidence score attached, so you can see at a glance what passed, what failed, and what to fix first.

Why we built it

We spend our days on the other end of this problem. Review My eLearning is where built courses get reviewed - stakeholders comment right on the screens, and every comment becomes tracked, assignable work. But a steady share of what surfaces in course review is really a storyboard problem that nobody caught. The further upstream a problem is found, the cheaper it is. So we built the upstream gate.

There is also a bigger shift underneath it. A lot of the manual review work in L&D exists because there was no fast way to get a structured opinion - you had to read a paragraph and interpret it yourself. That is starting to change, and we think tools like this are what the change looks like in practice: judgment you can call directly, in under a second, before the expensive work begins.

Try it

Feed it your next storyboard - or your last one, and see if it flags what your reviewers flagged. analyze.reviewmyelearning.com. And when the course itself is built and needs real stakeholder sign-off, that is what Review My eLearning is for.