Intermediate Authorware Training

Course Number: AUTH-102
Duration: 2 days
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Authorware Training Overview

Take your Authorware skills to the next level by mastering Authorware's built-in Knowledge Objects and programming capabilities! This Authorware^® training class will enable you to accelerate your development time and increase the flexibility of the applications you develop.

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

Beginning Authorware training or equivalent experience.

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 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

Authorware Training Objectives

To learn how to use the full range of Authorware Knowledge Objects to facilitate rapid development of e-learning applications
To master the fundamentals of Authorware programming in order to build more powerful, flexible applications

Note: Authorware 7 supports JavaScript as a programming language in addition to the traditional Authorware programming language (which resembles Pascal). This course can be taught using either JavaScript (supported by Authorware 7 and later) or Authorware's traditional language (supported by all versions of Authorware. If you have Authorware 7, we strongly recommend that this course be taught using JavaScript, as the JavaScript skills students learn will be very applicable to any future Dreamweaver or Flash development they do.

Authorware Training Outline

Introduction

Building new applications based on the core Authorware Knowledge Objects

The Application Knowledge Object
The Quiz Knowledge Object

Creating accessible applications with the Authorware Accessibility Kit (requires Authorware 7)

Mastering the Authorware assessment-related Knowledge Objects

Single Choice Question
Multiple Choice Question
True-False Question
Short Answer Question
Drag-Drop Question
Hot Object Question
Hot Spot Question
Using the Login and Scoring Knowledge Objects to facilitate authentication and score accumulation, display, and recording

Creating and manipulating RTF files with the Authorware RTF objects

Create RTF Object
Save RTF Object
Search RTF Object
Show or Hide RTF Object
Get RTF Object Text Range
Insert RTF Object Hot Text Interaction

Interacting with the Internet via the Internet Knowledge Objects

Using the Authorware Web Player Security object to set the list of trusted URLs for Authorware Web player (very helpful if you're planning to deploy your Authorware course on the Web)
Launch Default Browser
Send Email

Understanding Authorware Programming

Why learn Authorware programming?

Perform more complex scoring calculations for quizzes and assessments
Implement more complex navigation logic (e.g., determining which units a student needs to review based on a weighted average of their performance on different types of quiz questions, as well as their performance on previous exams)
Integrate courses and assessments with databases and LMS systems

Where programming code goes

Calculation icons
Calculations attached to other icons

Creating, assigning to, and using variables
Working with Authorware's built-in variables
Making decisions with if-else conditionals
Creating arrays (which Authorware calls "linear lists") to store lists of information (questions, students, etc.)
Looping through an array via Repeat While and Repeat With
Understanding Authorware's built-in functions
Using Authorware programming to control learner navigation

Reading from and writing to files

Why read from/write to files?

Read in users and passwords
Read in questions and answers
Store learners' preferences
Store learners' assessment results
Store multilingual resources (so a student can easily switch a course among English, Spanish, French, and other multilingual versions)

Reading in a file via ReadExtFile()
Parsing a file in which fields of data may be separated by commas or tabs
Using String functions to extract data from the file or change its format
Writing results to a file via WriteExtFile() and AppendExtFile()
Copying files via the Copy File Knowledge Object
Changing a file's accessibility and visibility via the SetFile Attribute Knowledge Object
Reading/writing values from INI files via the Read INI Value and Write INI Value Knowledge Objects
Reading data from XML files via the XmlParser Xtra

Preview of database and LMS connectivity options for Authorware

Database integration via ODBC
Database integration via Authorware communicating with a middle-tier application written in ColdFusion, ASP, ASP.NET, Java/JSP, or another language
LMS integration via the LMS (initialize) and LMS (send data) Knowledge Objects

Conclusion

Topics for further learning
Suggested approaches for further learning

VB.NET, C#, ASP, & ASP.NET Training

Java Training

SQL Server Training
SharePoint Training

Adobe Training

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