Workshop Dates
No classes scheduled. Call 614-888-4179 for more information on workshops.

Fast Track to Authorware 7

Beginner
This 5 day, hands-on training class takes participants through basic Authorware authoring techniques. Hands-on exercises will be used to develop an Authorware application that incorporates:

• Display items that include text, color, graphics
• Navigation menus
• Navigation button options for page forward, page backward, exit, etc.
• Interactions with various response types (buttons, hot spot, hot object, text entry, target area)
• Interactions with time and tries limit settings
• Sound clips using the Sound icon
• Moving objects using the Motion icon
• Controlled display of screens using the Wait icon
• Decision strategies for randomly presented quiz questions
• Calculations using Authorware's system functions and variables
• Hypertext glossary items
• Models, libraries
• Knowledge Object templates
• Student sign-on facility
• Student performance tracking and reporting

Day 1

• Introductions and overview of the course
• Introduction to Authorware
• Overview of Authorware icons
• Preview of Authorware application to be created in class
• Display icon
• Drawing tools within Authorware
• Drawing tools outside Authorware
• Wait icon
• Erase icon
• Motion icon
• Sound icon
• Interaction icon
• Hot spot interaction

• Interaction icon (cont.)
• Text Entry response interaction
• Tries Limit
• Time Limit
• Decision icon
• Hot Object interaction
• Target area interaction

• Target area interaction revisited: Conditional responses
• Authorware system variables
• User Sign-on interactions
• Frameworks & Navigate icons
• Models
• Knowledge Objects

• Digital movie icon
• Glossaries
• A sample Menu structure
• How to incorporate Custom buttons
• Authorware system functions
• Authorware libraries
• Tracking and reporting User Performance
• Packaging files for Network/CD-ROM
• Packaging and Shocking files for the Web
• LaJebey & Ubehebe Brain Teaser sample

• Review
• Brain Teaser
• Pulling it all together

Workshop Dates
No classes scheduled. Call 614-888-4179 for more information on workshops.

Authorware 7 Advanced

Advanced
This 3 day, hands-on training class provides experienced Online Learning Developers with the knowledge and hands-on use of Functions and Variables they need to develop and extend sophisticated learning applications.
Prerequisites

• Basic Windows or Macintosh skills such as cut, copy, paste, etc.
• Fast Track to Authorware 7 workshop or equivalent basic Authorware authoring experience.
• Participants should be comfortable with:
• Text, Color, Line, Mode, and Fill Pattern editing
• Using Authorware icons (Display, Wait, Interaction, Sound, Video, Motion, etc.)
• Building Interactions (Button, Hot Spot, Text Entry, Target Area etc.)
• Building navigation using the Navigate and Framework icons
• Building hypertext links
• Using Authorware Libraries
• Take the Online Shocked Authorware quiz to see if you're ready for this class.

• About the course
• Building Dynamic and Adaptive Authorware Applications
• Controlling the Piece
• Preview of finiished application: PDA
• Tips & Tricks
• Walkthrough: File setup
• Walkthrough: Import
• Walkthrough: Set layers
• Walkthrough: Set transitions for initial display
• Calculations
• Variables - reading the Variables dialog
• Functions - reading the Functions dialog
• Variables and Functions Reference
• A Way of Thikng about Variables
• A Way of Thinking about Functions
• A Way of Thinking about Expressions
• Variable syntax and Use
• Conditional Logic & Loops
• Tips & Tricks
• Walkthrough: Resize Window
• Responses
• Branch settings
• Perpetual Responses and Erasing
• Activating Responses
• Creating Error Traps
• Variables Reference
• Button responses
• Text Entry responses
• Target Area responses
• Hot Object responses
• All responses
• Walkthrough: Checked Buttons
• Making Choices
• Branching on the Flowline
• Calculated Path Decisions
• Choosing between two alternatives
• Choices in Expressions and Calculations
• Choosing the right method
• Variables Reference - decision variables
• Tips & Tricks
• Walkthrough: Alternative Paths in the Flowline
• Brain Teaser: The Trumpet Lesson

• Displaying Variables and Functions
• Key Components: Variable display
• Formatting Numbers
• Layering Displays
• Function Reference: LayerDisplay, DisplayIcon, DisplayIconNoErase, EraseIcon
• Tips & Tricks
• Walkthroughs: Adjusting Display Layers
• Walkthroughs: Displaying and Updating Variables
• Working with Character Strings
• Representation and Manipulation
• concatenate strings
• character String Functions
• Functions
• making changes to a String
• properties of a String
• Tips & Tricks
• Walkthrough: Applying and Displaying String Functions
• Walkthrough: Substrings & Number Formatting
• Brain Teaser
• Monogram Shop
• Movable and Moving Objects
• Display Icon properties
• Motion Icon properties
• Variables Reference: Moveable, Animating, Moving, PathPosition, PositionX and PositionY
• Functions Reference: LayerDispay
• Tips & Tricks
• Walkthrough: Positioning an Object on a Path
• Walkthrough: Direct to Line Scaled Motion
• Parents & Children
• Parent & Child icon relations
• Calculated Navigate Icons
• Tips and Tricks
• Functions Reference: ChildNumToID, ChildIDToNum, IconFirstChild, IconLastChild, IconNext, IconNumChildren, IconParent, IconPrev
• Walkthrough: Calculating a Navigate Destination
• Brain Teaser: The Lion and the Mosquito
• Perpetual Digital Movies
• Digital Movies properties
• Where Movies are stored
• BMP Sequence Movies
• Tips & Tricks
• Walkthrough: Perpetual Movies
• Brain Teaser: Heart Pump

• Continue Branching & Conditional Responses
• Continue Branching
• Continue Branching with Conditional Responses
• Automatic Conditional Judging
• Tips & Tricks
• Walkthrough: Positioning and Moving Displays on a Grid
• Walkthrough: Conditional Automatic Responses
• Walkthrough: Adding a Custom Cursor
• Walkthrough: Calculating a Motion Destination
• Walkthrough: Streamlining the Code with Continue Branching
• Brain Teaser: Stars n Stripes
• Text Files and Character Strings
• Manipulating Multi-line Character Strings
• Lists of Information in Character Strings
• Accessing External Text files
• RTF Knowledge Objects
• Tips & Tricks
• Walkthrough: Manipulating Content from a Text file
• Walkthrough: Making the Daily Quote Conditional
• Brain Teaser: An American Favorite
• Walkthrough: Creating an RTF Object
• Walkthrough: Showing a Portion of the RTF Object
• Walkthrough: Changing Pages
• Linear Lists
• Key Components
• Arrays
• Modifying Linear Lists
• Linear Lists vs Lists in Character Strings
• Functions Reference: Array, SetAtIndex, ValueAtIndex, AddLinear, DeleteAtIndex, ListCount, List, CopyList, SortList, FindValue
• Tips & Tricks
• Walkthrough: Creating and Sorting Linear Lists
• Walkthrough: Referring to Individual List Elements
• Walkthrough: Adding Items to Linear Lists
• Walkthrough: Deleting Items from a Linear List
• Walkthrough: Adding a Lookup Function
• Walkthrough: Saving the Updated Phone List
• ActiveX Controls
• Adding ActiveX Controls
• Properties, Methods, Events
• Tips & Tricks
• Functions Reference
• Walkthrough: Using ActiveX to create a Web Browser
• Additional Exercises
• Brain Teaser: Checks and Balances
• Brain Teaser: Shopping List Assistant