Since the Texas Legislature has mandated, via the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, to provide best practices for using technology for developmental education, we report on a solution used at College of the Mainland (Texas City, Texas) for satisfying that mandate. The solution was to use a common 'master' template in a learning management system (LMS). By placing worksheets, assessments, subject matter, a common grading scale and deployment of an 'early alert' system into a common master template in the LMS, the master template was then deployed to all ABE (Adult Basic Education) sections (all ABE students meet face-to-face with the instructor). This method was instrumental in better "course management" electronically available to instructors and students. One week prior to each semester, instructors (current and new hires) are given training on how to use the LMS ABE pre-built template, navigating throughout the weekly coursework, scoring assignments and the common grading scale. Training lasted about an hour. Results show that using the LMS common pre-built template for ABE requires very little training, and now that it is assembled, requires little instructional design maintenance. Due to the satisfaction of the faculty, the LMS common template continues to be in effect with 100% instructor usage and student participation. The advantages of using a common template are examined.