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Beginning Authorware Training

Course Number: AUTH-100
Duration: 3 days
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Authorware Training Overview

Adobe Authorware is the leading tool for building interactive, data-driven e-learning applications. This class, designed for first-time Authorware users, teaches attendees all the Authorware^® skills they need to immediately begin building online courses.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/?action=categorygroup&page=adobe.

Authorware Training Prerequisites

Prior experience with Windows or Macintosh computers is presumed.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This Authorware training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 15 minutes. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

Authorware Training Materials

All Authorware training students receive a copy of OnWord Press's latest Authorware book and related course material.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Authorware 6, 6.5, 7, or later (Authorware 7.02 or later recommended)
Firefox 2.0 or later or Internet Explorer 6 or later
Dreamweaver MX 6.0 or later (if a demonstration is desired of adding an Authorware application to a Web page)

Authorware Training Objectives

To learn good e-learning design principles
To master creating e-learning courses with Adobe Authorware
To learn how to incorporate graphics, Flash movies, RTF files, and PowerPoint slides into your Authorware courses
To discover how to successfully deploy, upgrade, and redeploy Authorware courses

Authorware Training Outline

Introduction
Overview of e-learning development

Understanding instructional design and the ADDIE instructional design model

Analysis
Design
Development
Implementation
Evaluation

Assembling the team

Product manager
Graphical designer
Instructional designer
Developer
Asset specialist
Training champion

Authorware and Adobe e-learning tools overview

Authorware capabilities

CD/LAN-based interactive courses
Web-based interactive courses
Industry-leading capabilities for easily controlling the flow and logic of a course
Superb capabilities for administering online quizzes and tests, in addition to delivering content

Alternative approach: Dreamweaver/Flash

Creating Web pages in Dreamweaver
Creating quizzes using Dreamweaver CourseBuilder
Creating interactive content and quizzes via Flash
Decision matrix: how to decide between the Authorware approach and the Dreamweaver/Flash approach

Where Adobe Breeze fits in

Authorware basics

Creating a course and setting course properties
Adding display icons
Erasing content via erase icons
Setting transitions for display and erase icons
Grouping icons together into Maps
Executing and testing your work

Understanding Authorware playback controls

Reset and Play
Pause and Stop
Restart
Setting flags and running movies from the flag
Displaying tracing information and using it to debug your movies

Wait icons

Pausing the course and displaying a Continue button
Pausing the course for a specified period of time
Controlling the appearance of the Continue button via the File properties and the Buttons Editor

Importing media

Importing graphics
Importing audio
Importing video
Importing Flash objects
Importing text from RTF files and Word documents
Importing PowerPoint slides
Reusing icons and media via the Library

Motion icons

When is it appropriate/inappropriate to use animation and motion within a course?
Direct to Point motion
Direct to Line motion
Direct to Grid motion
Path to End motion
Path to Point motion

Interacting with the user (the largest section in this course)

The role of the Interaction icon
Understanding interaction branching

Try again
Exit
Continue

Understanding interaction erasing behavior

Before next entry
After next entry
On exit
Don't erase

Button interactions (and how to control the appearance of buttons via the Button Editor)
Hot spot interactions
Hot object interactions
Target area interactions
Pull-down menus and text entry interactions

Includes a first introduction to variables as a means for storing users' responses

Key press interactions
Tries limit and time limit interactions

Frameworks and navigation

The role of Frameworks

Enable Authorware icons to be organized into groups with PowerPoint-like navigation
Typically used to organize course units (each course unit becomes a separate framework icon)

Using the built-in Framework navigation buttons

First, Previous, Next, Last
Search
Exit Framework

Using Navigate icons to build your own custom navigation interface

Building basic quizzes

Overview of proper quiz architecture
Using Authorware models to build a standard quiz question formats (which makes it faster/easier to create questions in your quiz)
Using Authorware's built-in Knowledge Objects to accelerate quiz development
Setting up judging of questions

Correct response
Incorrect response
Not judged

Controlling scoring of right/wrong answers
Discussion of variables and their role in a well-designed quiz

Using variables to enable questions and answers to be edited from the flow line
Using variables to store, access and display information on the user's performance

Using decision icons to organize and control the order of quiz questions

Setting up a "question bank" of questions that are asked sequentially
Setting up a question bank from which questions are drawn randomly
Directing the learner down a specific path based on their performance

Finishing touches

Adding an exit button to enable users to quit your application
Deciding whether to have the course restart or resume when the student exits and re-runs the course

Publishing and deploying your Authorware courses

Publishing Authorware content for CD/LAN deployment
Publishing Authorware content for Internet deployment
Deciding which Xtras to include in your deployment
Deciding whether to bundle library resources and external files internally or externally

Conclusion

Topics for further learning
Suggested approaches for further learning

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Authorware Training Outline

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