Multimedia lesson plan is critical when using multimedia object in teaching. It summarizes the objective, goals, content, materials used in the lesson and assessment given to learners. Before going to learners, it is important to have timeline to guide the lesson. The design process of the multimedia lesson plan include definition, research, ideation, develop, improve and feedback on the content. The instructor begins by setting the goals and does research to establish what others in the field have already done. Thereafter, creating of own ideas comes into play and the instructor then make content for the lesson. When using the multimedia object, a lesson plan points out areas where the instructor has tripped up. Tripping up is mostly as a result of failure to engage learners which might occur when the content is too complex or easy to the audience. Analogously, multimedia lesson plan allows the instructor to achieve goals set forward in the beginning of the lesson. It highlights the goals, prior knowledge, structure, delivery and content to be covered.
On multimedia principle, the first principle that relate directly to videos with embedded multi-choice questions is the feedback principle. Feedback principle states that individuals learn better from multimedia lessons when one receives explanative feedback on their performance. It is worth noting that multimedia video that embed multiple-choice questions provide prompt feedback to learner once they try out the questions. In addition, prior knowledge principle relates to these videos that embed multiple choice questions. Prior knowledge allows learners to easily understand and synthesize new information. The learning process in such a case moves from known to unknown whereby learners use their previous knowledge to learn new things. In multimedia lesson, instructor recaps what has already been covered previously when introducing a new concept.