backward-design-methodology

backward-design-methodology is a skill for Claude Code from reggiechan74/cc-plugins. It costs 100 tokens per session (2,727 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A curriculum-planning method that starts with learning goals, then defines how to measure them, and only afterward chooses lessons and activities. It is also called Understanding by Design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create outcomes-based workshops, plan assessments before lessons, and align course activities with measurable results.
Why use it?
It prevents courses from becoming overloaded with content or activities that do not support what learners should be able to do.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the course-curriculum-creator plugin — 4 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/reggiechan74/cc-plugins/backward-design-methodology
Any agent
npx skills add reggiechan74/cc-plugins --skill backward-design-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reggiechan74/cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install course-curriculum-creator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 2 agents.

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,727 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00100 $0.02727
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.01363
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00545
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00273

Measured 6d ago against content hash 6eeb1da00b3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backward-design-methodology scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

course-curriculum-creator/skills/backward-design-methodology/SKILL.md · 286 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 286 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backward Design Methodology

Overview

Backward design (Understanding by Design/UbD) is a curriculum planning framework that starts with the end in mind. Instead of beginning with content or activities, design courses by first identifying desired learning outcomes, then determining assessment evidence, and finally planning learning experiences. This approach ensures every workshop component serves a clear purpose and students achieve measurable results.

For 1-2 day intensive workshops, backward design prevents common pitfalls: content overload, misaligned assessments, and activities that don't advance learning objectives. The framework creates focused, achievable curricula that maximize learning in compressed timeframes.

The Three Stages of Backward Design

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

Start by answering: "What should students be able to do by the end of this workshop?"

Define learning outcomes:

  • Use measurable, observable action verbs (see blooms-taxonomy skill)
  • Focus on 3-5 core outcomes for 1-day workshops, 5-8 for 2-day workshops
  • Align outcomes with student needs and market positioning
  • Ensure outcomes are achievable within the timeframe

Distinguish between:

  • Worth being familiar with: Background knowledge, context, nice-to-know information
  • Important to know: Key concepts, fundamental principles, essential vocabulary
  • Enduring understanding: Core insights students will retain long-term, transferable skills

For intensive workshops, prioritize enduring understanding. Avoid the coverage trap—don't try to teach everything. Select the most impactful outcomes students can reasonably achieve in 1-2 days.

Example outcomes for 2-day PropTech workshop:

  1. Analyze PropTech use cases using established frameworks (Porter's Five Forces, value chain analysis)
  2. Evaluate PropTech solutions for specific real estate challenges with defined criteria
  3. Create implementation roadmaps for PropTech adoption in traditional real estate contexts

Read the full file on GitHub · 286 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 286 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 6eeb1da00b3c

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backward-design-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository reggiechan74/cc-plugins (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 2,727 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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