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Course Outline:
If you are interested towards Instructional based e-learning projects or preparing tutorials then pursue this course.
- Communicating technology
- Need for technical communicators
- Roles and functions of technical communicators
- Software Development Life Cycle
- How Software is developed, tested, maintained and retired
- How products are installed, configured, customized and deployed
- Relating software product features and business benefits
- Working with programmers and testers
- Understanding software requirement specifications
- Analyzing product architecture
- Web everywhere
- Documentation development life cycle
- Types of documents associated with software products
- Different types of software and what they do
Technical Writing
- What is Technical Writing ?
- Role of a Technical writer
- Principles of Technical Writing, Documentation deliverables
- Printed documentation and Online Help Systems
- Working with images and illustrations
Documentation Process
- Understanding Audience/Readers
- Collecting and Organizing information
- Drafting information verbally and visually
- Producing Information
Technical Writing Process
- Document development process
- Estimating Technical Documentation
- Documentation Planning
- Selection of Tools
- Information Architecture
- Templates and Page design
- Audience Profiling
- Task Analysis
- Content Development
- Elements of Style
- Technical Reviews
- Editorial Reviews
- Formatting and pagination
- Document Conversions
- Content Publishing
- Quality Control
- Content Maintenance
Grammar and Editing
- English Grammar
- Punctuation and Mechanics
- MS Style Guides & Proof Reading
Instructional Designing Tools
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Adobe PhotoShop
- Robo Demo
- Adobe Captivate
- Adobe Flash
Microsoft PowerPoint
- Importance of Presentations
- Saving Powerpoint
- Working on Slide Master
- Applying Design Templates
- Custom Animation and slide transition effects
- Action buttons and hyperlinks
- Slide layouts
- Movies and Sounds
- Insert & edit clip art
- Create a slide background using a picture
- Customize graphical bullets
- Insert and format a table into a slide
- Add an animation scheme to selected slides
- Rearrange slides
- Customize slide backgrounds and templates
- SlideShows
Adobe Photoshop
- Introduction to Photoshop
- Cropping images and editing
- Using advanced tools for creating architectural diagrams
- Explore the Photoshop Environment
- Using the File Browser
- Basic Photo Corrections
- Working with Selections
- Basic flow mode for editing images using Photoshop
- Retouching and Repairing
- Work with selections
- Creating layers
- Creating a Mask and Channels
- Correcting and Enhancing
- Slice and Link an Image
- Creating Rollovers
- Animate GIF Images
- Painting and Editing
- Basic Pen Tool Techniques
Adobe Captivate
- About Adobe Captivate
- Exploring the WorkSpace
- Creating Movies
- Adding Text Captions
- Adding Audio
- Adding Images and Animations
- Adding Boxes and Buttons
- Editing Mouse Movement
- Changing Timing
- Working with Slides
- Adding Objects
- Editing Movies
- Creating eLearning Content
- Publishing Movies
Robo Demo
- Introducing RoboDemo
- Planning a RoboDemo Movie
- Manually Recording a Simulation
- Working with Captions
- Working with Images and Objects
- AutoRecording a Simulation
- Inserting Text Animation
- Including Audio
- Importing Additional Content
- Exporting Your Movies
- Creating Hyperlinks
Adobe Flash
- What's FLASH 8
- Why should we use FLASH 8
- First Flash Animation
- Drawing and Working with Color
- Working with layers
- Properties of the Texts
- Sound Properties
- Working with Objects
- How to create symbols
- Creating graphics and verifying its properties
- Exporting a Flash object as animation
- What's a Movie Clip
- Actions in Buttons
- Frame by Frame Animations
- Effects on Animations
- Generating and Publishing Movies
- Introduction to ActionScript 2