Authorware Level 1

Please contact us to discuss private course dates and locations

Course Overview

Introduction to Authorware is designed to teach a wide range of instructional designers and developers to create interactive multimedia applications using Authorware.

Prerequisites

To gain the most from the course, delegates should have experience with the Windows operating system, be familiar with common design features and terminology of interactive multimedia applications.

Objectives

Delegates will be able to:

Create interactive applications
Create, import and format text
Create simple graphics in Authorware
Orchestrate linear presentation sequences
Build Direct to Point and Path to End motion effects
Use concurrency to present simultaneous events & control sequencing
Import graphics, sounds & movies
Incorporate media into interactive sequences
Synchronize events based on timings with a background music clip
Build a lesson menu organization structure
Use the interaction icon to structure user activities
Create custom button
Build hot spot responses
Use system and custom variables to track information
Enter and edit script using the calculation icon
Organize resources in a media library
Create text entry interactions where the user types an answer
Use the automatic erase features provided in Authorware
Add time limit and tries limit responses to interactions
Create hot object responses
Use continue branching options to streamline the flowline
Create a target area or drag & drop response
Use conditional responses to build dynamic interactions
Build a simple linear paging sequence using framework & navigates
Build hypertext links
Build generic logic structures that can be used repeatedly for rapid development
Use the decision icon to facilitate variable branching
Use system functions to extend the capabilities of Authorware
Publish Authorware applications for Web and CD/LAN delivery

Follow on Courses

Authorware Level 2

Training Options

Scheduled public courses at one of our training venues
Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at one of our training venues (Durham, Newcastle or Washington) or at an independent location, convenient to you
Bespoke course written to your specific needs, at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you
For further information please contact us on 0191 377 8377

What's Included

1 delegate per computer
Relaxed refreshment area at our training venues
Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venue
Comprehensive course manual and exercises

Course Content

Introduction to Authorware

Using the Display, Wait, and Erase Icons

Creating and Moving Graphic Objects

Importing Media

Creating Interactions

Creating Hot Spot Responses

Introduction to Authorware System Variables

Media Libraries

Text Entry Responses

Topics

Times & Tries Limit Responses

Hot Object Responses

Target Area Responses

Conditional Responses

Frameworks & Navigate Icons

Inserting Flash Objects

Adding Hyperlinks

Authorware Models

Decision Icon Branching

Introduction to Functions

Publishing Your Work