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Software training:

NEW Standard on Web Accessibility and the Standard on Web Usability

The Internet is an increasingly important communication tool providing an effective means for the public and the government to exchange information and for the government to offer its services in the official language and at the time and place of Canadians' choosing. The consistent and predictable presentation of government services and content offered by these standards facilitate effective online interaction.

Acrobat 9 Pro Creating Forms

PDF forms can be much more than something to print, fill out by hand, and fax back. Interactive fields allow for a web-like user experience, and submission via email or server can enable a truly paperless exchange of information. Acrobat 9 Pro makes interactive form creation and distribution more powerful and flexible than ever, but such a wealth of features and options can be daunting. Our Adobe Certified Experts focuse exclusively on the nuances of this process in Acrobat 9 Pro Forms. Discussed are the fundamentals of Acrobat forms, fields, and distribution, and explores the built-in form creation tools available in Acrobat 9. We also demonstrate the XML-driven forms that can be created by the Windows-only LiveCycle Designer application, included with Acrobat 9 Pro and Pro Extended.

Acrobat 9 Pro Essential

With Acrobat 9, Adobe continues to evolve the venerable PDF from a simple paperless document into a collaborative hub for many forms of digital communication. In Acrobat 9 Pro we will explores the many new and enhanced features in version 9 of Acrobat Standard, Acrobat Pro, and Acrobat Pro Extended, demonstrating different ways to create and modify PDFs, including the enhanced OCR tool, and show how to combine them with other files into a PDF Portfolio. We will cover collaboration in detail, including the new Collaborate Live and Shared Review options as well as investigate redaction and other security features.

Acrobat X Pro - Creating Forms with LiveCycle ES2

PDF forms can be much more than something to print, fill out by hand, and fax back. Interactive fields allow for a web-like user experience, and submission via email or server can enable a truly paperless exchange of information. Acrobat X Pro makes interactive form creation and distribution more powerful and flexible than ever, but such a wealth of features and options can be daunting. Our Adobe Certified Experts focuse exclusively on the nuances of this process in Acrobat X Pro Forms. Discussed are the fundamentals of Acrobat forms, fields, and distribution, and explores the built-in form creation tools available in Acrobat X. We also demonstrate the XML-driven forms that can be created by the Windows-only LiveCycle Designer application, included with Acrobat X Pro.

Acrobat X Pro Essential

With Acrobat X, Adobe continues to evolve the venerable PDF from a simple paperless document into a collaborative hub for many forms of digital communication. In Acrobat X Pro we will explores the many new and enhanced features in version X of Acrobat Standard, Acrobat Pro, and Acrobat Pro Extended, demonstrating different ways to create and modify PDFs, including the enhanced OCR tool, and show how to combine them with other files into a PDF Portfolio. We will cover collaboration in detail, including the new Collaborate Live and Shared Review options as well as investigate redaction and other security features.

Acrobat X Professional - Prepress

Discover the features of Adobe Acrobat X for optimizing your prepress workflow. Whether you're a graphic designer, a commercial printer or a professional with responsibility for printing documents, the prepress features in Adobe Acrobat X will revolutionize the way you manage your print work.

Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional - Forms with LiveCycle Designer

Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional now bundles an exciting application for designing interactive PDF forms - Adobe LifeCycle Designer 7. Designer enables you to rapidly create online PDF forms from start to finish, with no need for separate software! And, you can edit existing PDF forms as well as import form saved in Microsoft Word or PDF formats.

Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional

In this instructor-led training, students will learn how to create and host an Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional meeting, and will cover topics including scheduling meetings; displaying content in meetings; using audio and video during meetings; customizing the meeting room; interacting with participants; recording meetings; and creating and managing Adobe Connect Events. In addition to teaching methodology, the course focuses strongly on best practices for hosting meetings and managing associated content. The course also includes optional content for recording a demonstration and interactive simulation using the Adobe Captivate application.

Adobe After Effects CS5.5

In After Effects CS5.5, you will learn fundamental motion graphics design techniques from the ground up. Learn how to gather video, audio, and graphical source materials into layered compositions, make edits and adjustments, then bring it all to life with a powerful array of visual effects and animation techniques. These skills are demonstrated in a series of increasingly intricate projects. Learn workflows for keying and compositing, how to integrate with other applications, and much more.

Adobe Captivate 5.5

This 3 day hands-on course will provide the student with the skills required to use Captivate in creating computer-based simulations from anything they can access from their computer. The simulations they create can be interactive by adding captions, rollovers, clickable areas, typing areas and sound effects. The finished simulations or projects will be small and can be exported to either a Flash file format (.swf), executable files or Word documents. The Flash files are crossplatform compatible and can be viewed using a simple Web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator).

Adobe ColdFusion 9

ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) is a tag-based language that people with limited programming experience can work with because of the simpler syntax learning curve. For experienced developers the speed and reusability of the language allows for rapid application development compared to ASP, PHP etc.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 - Introduction (MON/THURS NIGHT)

This accellerated course is intended to provide web designers and administrators with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build and manage professional Web sites using Dreamweaver CS5. Class runs on Monday and Thursday night from 6 PM to 10 PM.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 - Level 1

To get the most out of Dreamweaver CS4, it's important not only to master the application, but also to understand fundamental concepts of modern web design. Our industry veterans teach just that in Dreamweaver CS5.5 Level 1, covering everything from site structure to the value of standards-compliant XHTML and CSS. Learn how to create clean and accessible code in Dreamweaver, as well as how to publish compelling content. We demonstrate how to use a variety of techniques for adding interactivity, creating and styling forms and tables, and saving time with templates. You will learn the benefits of using programs like Word and Photoshop to speed up workflow, and how to publish and manage finished sites.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 - Niveau 1

Adobe Dreamweaver est reconnu comme étant la norme de l'industrie en matière de conception Web et de développement d'applications Web. Son interface conviviale est un plaisir à utiliser pour les novices du Web alors que ses outils complexes permettent aux concepteurs Web expérimentés de créer des sites Web en un temps record. Peu importe vos besoins en matière de conception Web, Dreamweaver se distingue par sa facilité d’utilisation et ses résultats professionnels.

NOTE:
Ce cours est donnée en français avec la terminologie anglaise et en utilisant la version anglaise du logiciel.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 - Web Applications in PHP and MySQL

This course is for Web designers and developers who want to create database-driven Web applications in PHP inside Adobe Dreamweaver. Participants will be using the tools available in Dreamweaver to build an application that interfaces with a MySQL database. In addition to focusing on the basics of designing and developing applications with Dreamweaver, the course will also focus on best practices when creating web-based services.

Adobe Fireworks CS5

Fireworks CS5 is a hybrid imaging and rapid-prototyping application with an enhanced toolset and a greater variety of options. In Fireworks CS5, learn how to navigate and customize the workspace in this design and production hub. Get a primer on the array of graphics that can be created and combined in Fireworks, including bitmap and vector art, layered Photoshop and Illustrator files, and files in the native Fireworks format, enhanced PNG. Learn how to generate optimized web graphics as well as entire interactive prototypes based on CSS, HTML, PDF, and AIR. This training is intended for those who are new to Fireworks or who are seeking insights into the techniques made possible by the latest version.

Adobe Flash CS5 Pro - Niveau 1

Flash est un outil de création multimédia puissant qui peut être utilisé pour créer des animations simples ou des applications complètes. Dans Flash CS5 Professional niveau 1, nous proposons au nouveaux utilisateurs de Flash une exploration complète de l'interface, des outils et des techniques au cœur de tout projet. Venez apprendre comment utiliser les outil et le timeline, travailler avec du texte et des symboles, et créer des interpolations et d'autres animations simples. Nous explore également les éléments multimédias et comment utiliser ActionScript 3.0 pour ajouter de l'interactivité à vos projets Flash.

NOTE:
Ce cours est donnée en français avec la terminologie anglaise et en utilisant la version anglaise du logiciel.

Adobe Flash CS5 Pro - Niveau 2

Souvent, les gens voir de belles applications web tels que YouTube et se demandent comment ils ont été créés. La réponse est dans de nombreux cas avec ActionScript et Flash. Adobe Flash CS5 Professional - ActionScript 3.0 Le niveau 1 est un cours d'introduction qui enseigne les bases de la programmation web. Venez apprendre le développement d'applications web à partir de zéro, en commençant par la programmation de base, la terminologie et la syntaxe de codage. Sont également visés la façon d'utiliser les contrôles au clavier, les actions de la souris, puis faites glisser-déposer des actions pour permettre aux utilisateurs d'interagir avec les applications.

NOTE:
Ce cours est donnée en français avec la terminologie anglaise et en utilisant la version anglaise du logiciel.

Adobe Flash CS5 Professional - ActionScript 3.0 Level 1

People often see cool web applications like YouTube and wonder how they were created. The answer in many cases is with ActionScript and Flash. Adobe Flash CS4 Professional - ActionScript 3.0 Level 1 is an introductory course that teaches the building blocks of web programming. Come learn the development of web applications from the ground up, starting with basic programming, terminology, and coding syntax. Also covered are how to use keyboard controls, mouse actions, and drag-and-drop actions to allow users to interact with the applications.

Topics include:

Working with loops to show repeated actions
Defining functions and variables
Handling events and event listeners
Using classes to organize code
Building arrays to hold lists of information
Loading external content from various files
Adding images and sound to an application

Adobe Flash CS5 Professional - ActionScript 3.0 Level 2

This course is perfect for anyone who's looking to add more "flash" to Flash projects. In ActionScript 3.0 Level 2 Object-Oriented Programming, Adobe Certified Experts shares tools and techniques to help create a more streamlined workflow through reusable code components. Learn how encapsulation and inheritance can produce creative work with maximum efficiency, and how to use proper manipulation of classes to build a complete and complex slide show. Topics include:

Loading external text, images, and XML files
Creating essential properties for a View class
Defining a Model class
Building and implementing interfaces and designs
Debugging projects
Building applications with Controller-class buttons

Adobe Flash CS5 Professional - Level 1

Flash is a powerful multimedia creation tool that can be used to build simple animations, full-featured applications, and everything in between. In Flash CS5 Professional Level 1, we offer new Flash users a thorough explanation of the interface, tools, and techniques at the heart of any project. He shows how to use the latest iteration of the Flash drawing tools and timeline, work with text and symbols, and create tweens and other simple animations. We also explores multimedia elements and show how to use ActionScript 3.0 to add interactivity to Flash projects.

Adobe FrameMaker 10 - Level 1, Introduction

The course provides working knowledge of Adobe's multi-lingual publishing package for creating complex documents or books for print, Adobe PDF, HTML and XML. Topics include importing both text and graphic content from various file formats. In this course you will learn how to author FrameMaker documents and control their layout using powerful template features.

Adobe FrameMaker 10 - Level 2, Advanced

This course focuses on enhancing FrameMaker templates with variable content and other advanced features. Emphasis will be placed on creating portable documents and publishing for online formats such as Adobe PDF, HTML, and XML.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 - Introduction (MON/THURS NIGHT)

In this course, participants will start with an overview of Illustrator and the role vector graphics play in publishing and on the Web. Intructor-led exercises will teach the student how to manipulate existing artwork as well as create print-ready files. Class runs on Monday and Thursday night from 6 PM to 10 PM.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 - Level 1, Essential Training

This instructor-led class will explore core concepts and techniques that apply to any workflow in Illustrator, whether designing for print, the web, or assets for other applications including Flash and 3D modeling. This class includes an interactive and detailed discussion of the elements that make up vector graphics�paths, strokes, and fills�and shows how to use each of Illustrator's drawing tools. Also demonstrated are techniques for combining and cleaning up paths, organizing paths into groups and layers, text editing, working with color, effects, and much more.

Topics include:
Setting up a new document based on the output destination
Using rules, guides, and grids
Making detailed selections
Drawing and editing paths with the Pen and Pencil tools
Creating compound vector shapes
Understanding the difference between point and area text
Applying live effects
Creating color swatches
Transforming artwork with Rotation, Scale, and Transform effects
Placing images
Working with masks
Printing, saving, and exporting artwork

Adobe Illustrator CS5 - Level 2, Advanced

In this course, participants will learn some of the advanced features in Illustrator CS5, such as working with LiveTrace and LivePaint objects, and apply 3D to their artwork. Student will also be able to create custom colour and texture palettes used by various industries to represent real-world materials.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 - New Features

Get a hands-on introduction of noteworthy features and improvements in the latest upgrade of Adobe's vector graphics editor and drawing program. This course includes overviews of perspective drawing, expressive bristle brushes, and variable-width strokes, as well as anti-aliasing features for web design, a new Artboards panel, improvements to symbols and drawing modes, and integration with Adobe Flash Catalyst.

Adobe InCopy CS5.5

The class teaches you how InCopy, in conjunction with InDesign, can facilitate the print publishing workflows between designers, editors, and writers. Our Adobe Certified Instructor shows you how each project contributor can use InCopy in a way that is relevant to his or her particular tasks. Editors and writers will learn how to use InCopy CS5.5's editing tools, including styles, notes, text macros, and the thesaurus. They will also see how InCopy works with InDesign layouts. Designers will learn about InDesign CS4's new InCopy tools, how to export content for external editing with InCopy, and how to incorporate those edits back into layouts.

Adobe InDesign CS5 - New Features

Join a comprehensive hands-on tour of the latest features in Adobe InDesign CS5, including desktop publishing tips, workarounds, and practical applications of each feature. InDesign CS5 New Features covers creating interactive documents, tracking text changes with Word, a number of object selection and transformation enhancements, and the ability to mix page sizes.

Topics include:
Adding spanning heads over columns and splitting columns
Using the revamped Layers panel
Editing and customizing motion path presets
Adding interactive features
Controlling and managing multiple animations
Mixing page sizes in a single document
Publishing to a variety of Flash formats using the enhanced Export dialog
Creating multi-state objects
Using the new Gap tool and Gridify techniques

Adobe InDesign CS5.5 - Introduction (TUE/WED NIGHT)

With its tight integration with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, as well as its excellent design tools, Adobe InDesign has become the leading layout application with both creative professionals and anyone who needs to publish documents for professional output. Class runs on Monday and Thursday night from 6 PM to 10 PM.

Adobe InDesign CS5.5 - Level 1, Essential Training

Join our layout artists with in-depth training on InDesign CS5, Adobe's print and interactive page layout application. The course provides hands-on training on how to create new documents with strong and flexible master pages, precisely position text and graphics, prepare documents for print, and export designs as interactive PDF or Flash SWF files.

Topics include:
Navigating and customizing the workspace
Managing documents and pages
Rotating pages and spreads
Adjusting and mixing page sizes
Overriding master page items
Putting text on a path
Threading text frames
Applying strokes, fills, and other formatting effects
Nesting, grouping, and locking objects
Formatting: character-level and paragraph-level
Packaging, printing, and exporting

Adobe InDesign CS5.5 - Level 2 Advanced

In this course, participants will learn about InDesign's more advanced features such as working with book features, publishing to XML and PDF/X. Participants will also learn how to use InDesign to make interactive online PDF documents with features like bookmarks, links, buttons, audio and video clips.

Adobe InDesign CS5.5 - Migration for QuarkXPress or Adobe PageMaker users

This class is intended as a quick migration for students who have some page layout experience and need to move their skills to Adobe's leading publishing application.

Adobe InDesign CS5.5 - Niveau 1 (Français)

Ce programme de formation offre à l'étudiant des travaux pratiques conçus spécialement par des experts en produits Adobe.

Les leçons couvrent toutes les bases du logiciel et fournissent une multitude d'astuces et de techniques pour améliorer votre productivité. Explorez la typographie et les couleurs et apprenez-en plus sur la création de tableaux ou l'utilisation des styles.

Découvrez les nouvelles fonctionnalités de InDesign CS5.5 :

Adobe LiveCycle ES2 - Building Applications

Adobe LiveCycle ES2 - Building Applications provides developers the skills needed to utilize solution components in building LiveCycle ES2 applications. The course gives developers hands on experience in creating, deploying, testing and administering processes.

Adobe LiveCycle ES2 - Developing Forms

This instructor-led class explores techniques in developing forms for data capture and data display using Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES2. Through extensive, hands-on practice, you will learn to create static as well dynamic, interactive, data-bound forms including input validation, localized fields, accessibility information, embedded barcodes, and simple through advanced scripted interactions.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 - Introduction (MON/THURS NIGHT)

This accelerated course provides you with the concepts and skills to use Adobe Photoshop effectively. You will get hands-on experience working with basic and advanced image editing techniques. You will learn colour painting, photo retouching and image editing. Class runs on Monday and Thursday night from 6 PM to 10 PM.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 - Level 1, Essential Training

In Photoshop CS5 Essential Training, get hands-on experience in creating the highest quality images with fantastic detail in the shortest amount of time, using a combination of Photoshop CS5, Adobe Bridge, and Camera Raw. This course shows the most efficient ways to perform common editing tasks, including noise reduction, shadow and highlight detail recovery, retouching, and combining multiple images. Learn the secrets of non-destructive editing, utilizing and mastering Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw, layers, adjustment layers, blending modes, layer masks, and much more.

Topics include:
Automating image adjustments with Camera Raw
Adding keywords, ratings, and other metadata to images
Filtering a large collection of images down to the "keepers"
Cropping, correcting perspective, and straightening images
Creating, naming, hiding, and deleting layers
How to make selections and masks quickly
Improving mask quality with Refine Edge
Techniques for combining multiple images
Non-destructive editing techniques with adjustment layers and Smart Filters
Retouching essentials, such as blemish removal and body sculpting
Color correcting images
Using the essential blend modes, layer effects, and styles
Creating contact sheets and web photo galleries

Adobe Photoshop CS5 - Level 2, Advanced

This advanced class builds on your knowledge of Photoshop and expands your list of creative techniques. While this course is strongly oriented toward design details and functions, it also explores the realities that apply to the use of Photoshop. Colour correction and colour adjustment are stressed in various projects as well as issues related to digital photography.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 - New Features

In Photoshop CS5 New Features, we'll explore new features and productivity enhancements that include reshaping images with Puppet Warp, turning photographs into paintings, and Content-Aware Fill options. The course examines CS5 enhancements to existing features include significant improvements to High Dynamic Range (HDR) photo processing, selection and mask edge refinement, and lens-related photo corrections. A brief overview of companion applications, Adobe Bridge CS5 and Adobe Camera Raw 6, is included.

Topics include:
Performing Content-Aware Fill and spot healing
Painting realistic brush strokes with bristle brush tips
Blending paint with canvas colors with the Mixer Brush tool
Selecting hair and other soft edges with fine detail or edges with sharp contrast
Extruding 2D objects in 3D space
Creating surrealistic and photorealistic HDR images in Merge to HDR Pro
Simulating HDR imaging in a single photo with the HDR Toning adjustment
Working with Mini Bridge

Adobe Photoshop CS5 - Niveau 1 (Français)

Ce programme de formation offre à l'étudiant des travaux pratiques conçus spécialement par des experts en produits Adobe.
Les leçons couvrent toutes les techniques élémentaires et avancées du numéro un mondial des logiciels de retouche photographique et fournissent une multitude d'astuces pour améliorer votre productivité.

Découvrez les nouvelles fonctionnalités de Photoshop CS5 :

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Working in RAW

This course is for anyone who need to integrate digital photography in their work environment. It will enable participants to master the different aspects of the digital photography workflow, from capture to high quality printing while maintaining and enhancing natural colours.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 - Level 1, Introduction

This course helps you understand and work with basic through advanced concepts and features of Adobe Premiere. You will run through a typical series of steps for creating, editing and fine-tuning a series of video pieces.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 - Level 2, Advanced

Take your skills further by focussing on the more advanced features of Premiere. Attendees will learn how to use the interface and more advanced editing tools for producing broadcast-quality movies used for video, multimedia, or the Web.

Adobe Presenter 7

With just a few clicks in PowerPoint, you can transform drab presentations into engaging Adobe® Flash® multimedia experiences. Easily add narration, animations, interactivity, quizzes, and software simulations to eLearning courses.

Key capabilities
Easily create professional Flash presentations and self-paced courses complete with narration and interactivity.
Import and edit video in any format and export as SWF.
Record and edit high-quality audio.
Help ensure consistency with branding and customization.
Deliver advanced quizzes and surveys with question pooling and randomization.
Publish content as a PDF file, preserving all of your animations.
Create AICC- and SCORM-compliant content.
Integrate with Adobe Acrobat® Connect™ Pro software to deploy, manage, deliver, and track content.

Adobe Robohelp 8

This course teaches participants how to create professional HTML and WebHelp systems. Participants will learn how to create logically organized and effective help systems that will enable users to find solutions in a timely and efficient manner. By the end of the course, participants will be able to quickly create professional help systems, using RoboHelp’s advanced and time-saving features.

AJAX Essential Training

AJAX Essential Training is for experienced web developers looking for the best way to integrate AJAX in their dynamic pages. The course covers selecting the best tools for the job (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML), understanding all aspects of HTTP from requests to responses, and creating dynamic forms and maps from static HTML and CSS forms and files. This instructor-led class features plenty of hands-on and also covers working with the Yahoo! UI framework.

Android - Advanced

This advanced Android training class is taking mobile application development to the next level. You will learn how to create custom widgets, create animations, work with camera, use sensors, create and use advanced content providers and much more. The course goes into testing and deployment of Android applications as well.

Android - Introduction

Introduction to programming for the Android platform course is designed to quickly get you up to speed with writing apps for Android devices. You will learn the basics of Android platform. You will get to understand the application lifecycle. By the end of the course, you will be able to write simple GUI applications, use built-in widgets and components, work with the database to store data locally, and much more. This is a perfect course to get started with Android programming.

Apple DVD Studio Pro

Apple's DVD Studio Pro leads the industry with it's streamlined workflow, a comprehensive set of design tools, and smooth integration with video editing tools such as Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Photoshop. This course provides participants with a complete understanding of Studio Pro's tools for producing professional quality standard definition and high definition DVDs.

Apple Final Cut Pro X

Final Cut Pro is Apple's solution for professional video editing on the Mac platform. Since it's introduction with version 1.0, it's feature set has rivaled systems costing ten time more, and is quickly being adopted by film producers worldwide. In this course participants will begin with a brief introduction to DV, followed by a complete overview of Final Cut Pro's toolset. Participants will then learn how to use Final Cut Pro to work on all aspects of a digital video project.

Apple iPhone/iTouch/iPad: Application Development

Few platforms match the iPhone’s unique developer technologies. It combines OS X-based mobile computing with an innovative multitouch screen, location awareness, an onboard accelerometer, and more.When Apple introduced the iPhone Cocoa Touch SDK beta in early March 2008, developers responded in numbers that brought Apple’s servers to its knees. Apple delivered more than one hundred thousand SDK downloads in less than one week. This class was tailored to address this demand and provide a springboard for those new to iPhone/iTouch and IPad programming.

Apple Motion 5 - Building motion graphics and animations for video production

Join our Apple certified experts for 2-days of hands-on training geared towards building outstanding motion graphics and animations for video production. Learn how to build custom text animations with the new Adjust Glyph tool and explores Motion's amazing real-time 3D tools. Highlights include working in the 3D space, creating depth with lights and shadows, and using reflections to add realism. Also learn how to integrate Motion into a professional video workflow, round-tripping with Final Cut Pro and sending a final project to Compressor.

Articulate Studio Pro 09 - Advanced Articulate

Experience the hands-on practice and coaching you need to refine and enhance your use of the Articulate suite of tools. Participants will build their own elearning templates in PowerPoint, Presenter, Quizmaker, and Engage. We will focus on building courses using more advanced and interactive features, such as branching scenarios, layering with hyperlinks, using motion paths to build screen simulations, and building more intelligent quizzes. The advanced course has been designed with fewer modules to create more hands-on experience while giving the participants time to build some resources they can use when they return to the office.

Who Should Attend: Professionals using Articulate Studio '09 Pro for elearning content development, including training managers, instructional designers, trainers, product managers and marketing & communication professionals.

Articulate Studio Pro 09 - Basic Articulate

This full-day training course provides you with everything you need to create compelling elearning courses with Articulate Rapid Studio Pro'09. You are guided through a rapid elearning course development process while creating your own elearning course. Participate in hands-on exercises and real-world labs. At the end of the course, you will have developed your own Articulate-based elearning course that includes Presenter '09 content, Engage '09 interactions and Quizmaker '09 quizzes.

Who Should Attend: Professionals using Articulate Studio Pro '09 for elearning content development, including training managers, instructional designers, trainers, product managers and marketing & communication professionals.

Articulate Studio Pro 09 - Effective Use of Video in eLearning

Learn why and how to use video effectively in your elearning modules. Discover some best practices and tools that you can use to quickly and easily create powerful videos to enhance your training offering.

Who Should Attend: Professionals who develop elearning content development, including training managers, instructional designers, trainers, product managers and marketing & communication professionals. Learn why and how to use video effectively in your elearning modules. Discover some best practices and tools that you can use to quickly and easily create powerful videos to enhance your training offering.

Who Should Attend: Professionals who develop elearning content development, including training managers, instructional designers, trainers, product managers and marketing & communication professionals. Learn why and how to use video effectively in your elearning modules. Discover some best practices and tools that you can use to quickly and easily create powerful videos to enhance your training offering.

Who Should Attend: Professionals who develop elearning content development, including training managers, instructional designers, trainers, product managers and marketing & communication professionals.

Articulate Studio Pro 09 - Fundamentals of Rapid eLearning Design

Experience the hands-on practice and coaching you need to refine and enhance your understanding of Rapid E-learning Design. The basic and advance courses teach you the tool. . . the Rapid Elearning Design course will make sure you know how to use the tool effectively. You will learn how to raise the quality of the content, graphic design, and effectiveness of your e-learning courses. This course has also been designed with fewer modules to create more hands-on experience while giving the participants time to build some resources they can use when they return to the office.

Who Should Attend: Professionals who develop elearning content development, including training managers, instructional designers, trainers, product managers and marketing & communication professionals

Autodesk 3ds Max 2013 Level 1

3ds Max is one of the most widely-used 3D modeling, animation, and rendering programs. Join our industry veterans to learn the skills required for creating eye-catching film and television animation, cutting-edge games, and distinct design visualizations.

Autodesk 3ds Max 2013 Level 2

Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Fundamentals

This 3 day hands-on course will provide the student with the ability to create a basic 2D drawing using drawing and editing tools, organize drawing objects on layers, add text and basic dimensions, and prepare to plot.

Autodesk Introduction to MotionBuilder 2013

In this 2-day hands-on class, you will be provided with the foundations of working inside of MotionBuilder.

Using a project-based approach, you will learn the foundations of working inside of MotionBuilder. We’ll begin by familiarizing ourselves with MotionBuilder’s interface and how to load in files and other assets. We’ll learn how to move objects in 3d space and learn how to work with its Transport Controls for playing back animation. We’ll learn about its keyframing tools, like the Key Controls and Fcurves window, for creating, polishing, and cycling animation. We’ll then discuss Characterization, which is the process of making your characters ready for animation and retargeting. We’ll learn how to work with its advanced Control Rig and how to use its Pose Controls to build performances faster. From there, we will learn how to work with its robust animation layering system, how to set up cameras, and how to create real-time movies for previews. This course will provide you with the solid foundation you need to comfortably integrate MotionBuilder into your production pipeline to create animation faster and easier.

Autodesk Introduction to MUDBOX 2013

In this hands-on class you will get a ground up look at the powerful sculpting and texture painting application, Mudbox. We will begin by taking a look at the Mudbox interface and talking about the basics of working with geometry in Mudbox. We will cover methods for getting geometry into Mudbox, how to transform it around the scene, and subdivide it in preparation for sculpting.

We will proceed from there by using a project based approach to cover the sculpting and painting tools. We will also create our own Vector Displacement Maps that we can use to sculpt. We will talk about changing our tool properties to get different results and using stamps and stencils to create various looks. We will go over some on-target presentation features in Mudbox and move on to painting textures. We will cover the Mudbox paint layer functionality and talk about new features in 2013 like uv-less PTEX painting and layer masks. We will talk about the Pose tools and painting opacity maps for our meshes. We'll finish up by talking about how Mudbox integrates with other applications like Photoshop, Maya, 3ds Max, and Softimage. This course will give you the chance to learn the ins and outs of Mudbox by going through the process with a project based approach. Once completed, you will be able to take what you have learned and apply it to your own work.

Blender Series: Essential Blender 3D Modeling Level 1

Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that is a real alternative to commercially available 3D design software. A cross-platform software package with millions of downloads annually, Blender is now one of the world's most popular 3D design tools.

Although Blender is free, it's intended for design professionals and others motivated to become 3D artists. The Essential Blender series will provide you with hands-on, instructor-led experience you need to help integrate Blender into your work and begin to master its powerful creation tools.

If you've never tried 3D design before, this class will familiarize you with relevant terminology and concepts. If you're already experienced with commercial 3D software, The Essential Blender will get you up to speed with Blender quickly.

Blender Series: Essential Blender 3D Modeling Level 2

Are you ready to push the envelope on your Blender abilities? This professional, instructor-led class takes you step by step through intermediate and advanced techniques for Blender's modeling, texturing, scripting, game-creation, and visual effects tools. It covers advanced topics on sculpting, compositing, and video editing, as well as provides a complete introduction to Python® scripting suitable for people with no programming background.

Intermediate Blender users will explore specific workflow topics that will help boost productivity and enhance the quality of their work. Advanced users will find tips and techniques not covered elsewhere that will help them optimize Blender's functionality for professional projects. Learn how to create assets for use in a game engine, how to use Python in the game engine environment, and much more. If you want professional tips to reach new heights and create visually stunning 3D animations in Blender, this class is for you.

Camtasia Studio 7

Every day, thousands of people around the world use Camtasia Studio to create videos that train, teach, sell, and more! It's the easiest way to demonstrate a process, product, or idea.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS 2.0)

CSS allows web designers and developers more power and control over formatting and positioning of elements on a web site. This course concentrates on the basics of CSS, emphasizing how to control your colours, typography, the box object model, multiple ways to address elements in CSS and the proper way to externalize code to facilitate site maintenance.

Certificat de spécialiste en e-learning (version Adobe Captivate)

Ce cours est offert en français avec une documentation en anglais.

This class is offered in two versions, one uses the Articulate suite as the core product while the other Adobe Captivate.

Experience the hands-on practice and coaching you need to refine and enhance your understanding of Rapid E-learning Design. The basic and advanced portions of this course will teach you the tools . . . and will make sure you know how to use the tool effectively. You will learn how to raise the quality of the content, graphic design, and effectiveness of your e-learning courses. This course has also been designed with fewer modules to create more hands-on experience while giving the participants time to build some resources they can use when they return to the office.

Who Should Attend: Professionals who develop elearning content development, including training managers, instructional designers, trainers, product managers and marketing & communication professionals

Certificat de spécialiste en e-learning (version Articulate)

Ce cours est offert en français avec une documentation en anglais.

This class is offered in two versions, one uses the Articulate suite as the core product while the other Adobe Captivate.

CorelDRAW X5 - Level 1, Introduction

Designed for students with little or no experience using CorelDRAW 12. Students will use their knowledge of graphical design in conjunction with the basic features of CorelDRAW to create engaging and dynamic drawings.

CorelDRAW X5 - Level 2, Advanced

This course is designed for students who are familiar with CorelDRAW 12 and would like to use more advanced features to create professional documents. Students will use advanced drawing tools and advanced text features to create a professional, multi-page brochure.

CRYSTAL REPORTS 2008 DESIGNER 1 WORKSHOP

This two-day, interactive workshop was designed for new users of Crystal Reports 2008. Some of the topics covered include a review of the software features, report design, and the creation of presentation quality reports. The course incorporates a number of hands-on exercises to reinforce the learning process.

CRYSTAL REPORTS 2008 DESIGNER 2 WORKSHOP

This two-day workshop is designed to enhance your basic report writing skills and move you into creating more complex reports. Time will be spent walking you through the tips and tricks of advanced report writing along with a good amount of hands on practice. In addition, you will cover professional design, techniques, sub-reporting and advanced formulas. This course incorporates a number of hands on exercises that reinforce the learning process.

CRYSTAL REPORTS 2008 DESIGNER 3 WORKSHOP

This two-day workshop is designed to expand your working knowledge of Crystal Reports and move you into creating more complex reports. Time will be spent walking you through the tips and tricks of advanced report writing along with a good amount of hands on practice. In addition, you will cover custom functions, advanced formulas and report efficiencies techniques. This course incorporates a number of hands on exercises that reinforce the learning process.

Crystal Reports 8.0 Quick Start Workshop

This 2-day workshop is designed for beginning users with little or no exposure to Crystal Reports. The intent of the course is to familiarize the students with the Crystal Reports environment, and get them up and reporting quickly. The workshop provides the basic steps for creating, modifying, saving and viewing reports to more flexible tasks such as basic formulas and the powerful automated features.

Drupal 7.x

Drupal is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) for a variety of platforms. It has a robust user community and easy-to-use administration features. Drupal Essential Training covers all the important aspects of installing, configuring, customizing, and maintaining a Drupal-powered website. This instructor-led class explores blogs, discussion forums, member profiles, and other features while demonstrating the steps required to make Drupal perform. You will also learn fundamental concepts and skills along the way, including installation, backups, and updates; security and permissions; flexible page layouts and CSS; menu navigation; and performance monitoring and disaster recovery. He also discusses how to select and install the community-supported modules that further expand Drupal's capabilities, and gives experienced PHP programmers tips on customizing page templates.

Topics include:
Understanding the inner workings of Drupal
Creating stories, pages, blogs, forums, and polls
Managing users and comments
Setting and customizing themes
Exchanging content via RSS
Stopping comment spam with a CAPTCHA
Launching a site and joining the Drupal community

e-Learning Specialist Certification (Adobe Captivate version)

This class is offered in two versions, one uses the Articulate suite as the core product while the other Adobe Captivate.

e-Learning Specialist Certification (Articulate version)

This class is offered in two versions, one uses the Articulate suite as the core product while the other Adobe Captivate.

EC-Council Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI Certification Class)

The CHFI course will give participants the necessary skills to identify an intruder's footprints and to properly gather the necessary evidence to prosecute. Many of today's top tools of the forensic trade will be taught during this course, including software, hardware and specialized techniques. The need for businesses to become more efficient and integrated with one another, as well as the home user, has given way to a new type of criminal, the "cyber-criminal." It is no loger a matter of "will your organization be comprised (hacked)?" but, rather, "when?" If you or your organization requires the knowledge or skills to identify, track, and prosecute the cyber-criminal, then this is the course for you.

Computer hacking forensic investigation is the process of detecting hacking attacks and properly extracting evidence to report the crime and conduct audits as well to prevent future attacks. Further to reporting computer forensics is the application of investigation and analysis techniques in the interests of determining presentable legal evidence. Evidence might be sought in a wide range of computer crime or misuse, including but not limited to theft of trade secrets, theft of or destruction of intellectual property, and fraud. CHFI investigators can draw on an array of methods for discovering data that resides in a computer system, or recovering deleted, encrypted, or damaged file information. Securing and analyzing electronic evidence is a central theme in an ever-increasing number of conflict situations and criminal cases.

Disloyal employees
Computer break-ins
Possession of pornography
Breach of contract
Industrial espionage
E-mail Fraud
Bankruptcy
Disputed dismissals
Web page defacements
Theft of company documents

Computer forensics enables the systematic and careful identification of evidence in computer related crime and abuse cases. This may range from tracing the tracks of a hacker through a client’s systems, to tracing the originator of defamatory emails, to recovering signs of fraud.

Who Should Attend
The CHFI course will provide participants the necessary skills to identify an intruder’s footprints and to properly gather the necessary evidence to prosecute in the court of law.

• Police and other law enforcement personnel
• Defense and Military personnel
• e-Business Security professionals
• Systems administrators
• Legal professionals
• Banking, Insurance and other professionals
• Government agencies
• IT managers

Certification
Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (EC-Council) certification is awarded after successfully passing the EC-Council Prometric exam EC0 312-49. An exam will be held on the final day of the course. Students must pass the exam within one year from course completion in order to become certified.

EC-Council Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures (CEH Certification Class)

This class will immerse the student into an interactive environment where they will be shown how to scan, test, hack and secure their own systems. The lab intensive environment gives each student in-depth knowledge and practical experience with the current essential security systems. Students will begin by understanding how perimeter defenses work and then be lead into scanning and attacking their own networks, no real network is harmed. Students then learn how intruders escalate privileges and what steps can be taken to secure a system. Students will also learn about Intrusion Detection, Policy Creation, Social Engineering, DDoS Attacks, Buffer Overflows and Virus Creation. When a student leaves this intensive 5 day class they will have hands on understanding and experience in Ethical Hacking. This course prepares you for EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker exam 312-50

Who Should Attend
This course will significantly benefit security officers, auditors, security professionals, site administrators, and anyone who is concerned about the integrity of the network infrastructure.

Certification
The Certified Ethical Hacker exam 312-50 may be taken on the last day of the training (optional). Students need to pass the online Prometric exam to receive CEH certification.

Legal Agreement
Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures course mission is to educate, introduce and demonstrate hacking tools for penetration testing purposes only. Prior to attending this course, you will be asked to sign an agreement stating that you will not use the newly acquired skills for illegal or malicious attacks and you will not use such tools in an attempt to compromise any computer system, and to indemnify EC-Council with respect to the use or misuse of these tools, regardless of intent.

Not anyone can be a student — the Accredited Training Centers (ATC) will make sure the applicants work for legitimate companies.

HTML5 Fast Track

HTML5 is the next major milestone in HTML and it is not just another incremental enhancement; it represents an enormous advance for modern web applications. HTML5 is such a big step forward that it prompted Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering at Google, to say "The web has not seen this level of transformation, this level of acceleration, in the past ten years... we're betting big on HTML5."

A large number of features are already supported in browsers, so it is time to start using it! In this HTML5 Fast Track training course, you will learn how to create HTML5 web pages and web applications using HTML5 markup and HTML5 JavaScript APIs.

In the hands-on HTML5 Fast Track training course, you will learn how to create web applications using HTML5. The HTML5 Fast Track will give you the first hand experience with all the new HTML5 features so that you can start using it in your projects right away. Upon completion of the training course, you will:

Know how to use HTML5 Markup
Know how to use the HTML5 JavaScript APIs
Understand current browser support for the various HTML5 features
Understand how to emulate certain HTML5 features on older browsers

HTML5 WebSocket and Communication

This is a highly practical, two-day class about HTML5 Communication for real-time web applications, using HTML5 WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, Cross-Document Messaging, and XMLHttpRequest Level 2.

This course will teach you how to create next generation HTML5 web applications. With these new standards, the browser can now enjoy the first-class citizenry of network communication that has long been enjoyed by desktop applications.

You will learn how to use the emerging standards to build scalable, mission critical real-time Web 2.0 applications such as:

Trading System Clients
Online Betting Applications
Social Chat Solutions
Performance Monitoring Applications
RFID and GPS Tracking Applications
Sports and News Broadcasting Applications

Upon completion of this course you will know how to create your own scalable, real-time Web applications with the latest HTML5 Communication technologies and be able to:

Understand the fundamental HTML5 Communication technologies: WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, Cross-Document Messaging, and XHR Level 2
Decide when and why to use HTML5 Communication and its implications on your architecture
Setup and configure an Enterprise development environment and use HTML5 Communication APIs
Build applications on top of WebSocket and use client-side APIs to communicate directly with back-end systems such as JMS, XMPP, STOMP and AMQP
Design, develop, debug and deploy secure and scalable real-time web applications with HTML5 WebSocket that will work in today�s browsers

jQuery

jQuery is fast becoming a must-have skill for front-end developers. This hands-on class provides an overview of the jQuery JavaScript library; when you're done, you should be able to complete basic tasks using jQuery, and have a solid basis from which to continue your learning.

In this hands-on class, we will spend a bit of time covering a concept, and then you'll have the chance to work on an exercise related to the concept. Some of the exercises may seem trivial; others may be downright daunting. In either case, there is no grade; the goal is simply to get you comfortable working your way through problems you'll commonly be called upon to solve using jQuery. Example solutions to all of the exercises are included in the sample code.

LABS : Motion Graphics in After Effects - Get Ready for the Boom Project

During this one day, hands-on lab you will learn to use After Effect to create the following project: Get Ready for the Boom (click for sample).

This instructor-led class will take your existing knowledge of graphic applications and walk you through the steps required to assemble this multifaceted project.

Although the end product will be a title sequence for broadcast, the knowledge can be ported easily to other applications like DVD intros and the web.

A good background in applications such as Photoshop and keyframe-based applications such as Flash or Final Cut will be useful. Prior knowledge of After Effects is useful but not required.

If you would like us to evaluate your readiness for this project, please don't hesitate to contact us: info@redrocket.ca

Microsoft Access 2000/2003 - Customizing your reports

You will need Access 97 or 2000 to complete this Lab. For the

Microsoft Access 2002/2003 Niveau 1 (Conception)

Ce cours est un cours d’introduction à Access 2002/2003 se fixant sur les fonctions de base du logiciel, conçu pour les nouveaux utilisateurs/utilisatrices de Access 2002 qui ont la responsabilité de créer et gérer une base de données.

Microsoft Access 2002/2003 Niveau 2 (Conception avancée de base de données)

Ce cours est un cours intermédiaire d’Access 2002/2003 se fixant des fonctions plus avancées du logiciel.

À l'achèvement du cours, les participants pourront modifier la structure d’une table, changer les propriétés d’un champ, utiliser les opérateur dans une requête, créer des requêtes d’action, créer des requêtes complexes, utiliser les assistants de requêtes complexe, utiliser les fonctions avancées, manipuler les contrôles, utiliser la fenêtre du mode création, créer des formulaires, fonctions avancées de création d’une état.

Microsoft Access 2002/2003 Niveau 3 (Fonctions avancées)

Ce cours est un cours avancé d’Access 2002/2003 se fixant sur les fonctions avancées du logiciel.

À l'achèvement du cours, les participants pourront accomplir le suivant : Créer un graphique, travailler avec les sous-formulaires et sous-états, manipuler les contrôles activex, créer des index, créer un duplicata de base de données, utiliser les fonctions Internet, créer des macros, créer des barres d’outils personnalisées, exporter des données vers Excel et Word.

Microsoft Access 2003 - Level 1

Most organizations maintain and manage large amounts of information. One of the most efficient and powerful information management computer applications is the relational database. Information can be stored, linked, and managed using a single relational database application and its associated tools. In this course, you will be introduced to the concept of the relational database by using the Microsoft Office Access 2003 relational database application and its information management tools.

Microsoft Access 2003 - Level 2

As you begin this course, you should have the basic skills you need to work with Microsoft Office Access 2003 databases. This includes working with Access tables, relationships, queries, forms, and reports. But thus far you have been focusing on essential database user skills only. In this course you will consider how to design and create a new Access database, how to customize database components, and how to share Access data with other applications.

Microsoft Access 2003 - Level 3

Your training in and use of Microsoft Office Access 2003 has provided you with a solid foundation in the basic and intermediate skills for working in Microsoft Office Access 2003. You're now ready to extend your knowledge into some of the more specialized and advanced capabilities.

Microsoft Excel 2002/2003 Niveau 1

Ce cours est un cours d’introduction à Excel 2002/2003 se fixant sur les fonctions de base du logiciel.

À l'achèvement du cours, les participants pourront lancer le logiciel, travailler avec le compagnon Office, connaître les notions de base, travailler avec les plages, utiliser les fonctions simples, couper, copier et coller les données, imprimer une feuille de calcul, faire la mise en page et mise en forme des nombres et du texte, sélectionner et modifier les lignes et colonne, utiliser la mise en forme de cellules, utiliser les fonctions de mise en forme automatique, et utilise l’aide en ligne.

Microsoft Excel 2002/2003 Niveau 2

Ce cours est un cours intermédiaire d’Excel 2002/2003 se fixant sur les fonctions les fonctions intermédiaires du logiciel.

À l'achèvement du cours, les participants pourront travailler les grandes feuilles de travail, utiliser plusieurs feuilles de calcul, copier et déplacer les feuilles de calcul, nommer les plages, utiliser des fonctions de finances, de dates, trier et rechercher les données, créer des graphiques, mettre en forme les graphiques, travailler des objets dessin, mettre en forme les graphiques, travailler des objets dessinés, ajouter effet 3D, utiliser des formes automatiques, travailler les fichiers HTML, créer des commentaires.

Microsoft Excel 2002/2003 Niveau 3 (Analyse de feuilles de calcul)

Ce cours est un cours avancé d’Excel 2002/2003 se fixant sur les fonctions d’analyse de feuille de calcul du logiciel.

À l'achèvement du cours, les participants pourront utiliser les étiquettes dans les formules, appliquer les plans, utiliser les bases de données, visualiser la grille de données, créer les filtres élaborés, importer et exporter les données, utiliser les fonctionnalités avancées de graphiques, utiliser plusieurs classeurs, appliquer les fonctionnalités de mise en forme conditionnelle et personnalisée, utiliser les modèles, utiliser le collage spécial, définir la personnalisation d'Excel, établir la protection des feuilles de calcul, utiliser le partage de classeurs.

Microsoft Excel 2002/2003 Niveau 3 (Macros)

Ce cours est un cours avancé d’Excel 2002/2003 se fixant sur les fonctions de création de macros du logiciel.

Microsoft Excel 2002/2003 Niveau 4

Ce cours est un cours avancé d’Excel 2002/2003 se fixant sur les fonctions de création de macros et autres fonctions très avancées du logiciel.

À l'achèvement du cours, les participants utiliser les séries de données, utiliser les scénarios et la fonction valeur cible, utiliser les tables de données, afficher et utiliser la barre d'outils audit de formules, consolider les feuilles de calcul, la résolution de problèmes, utiliser les affichages, définir, enregistrer, modifier les macros, créer les barres d'outils et les menus personnalisés, créer un bouton de macro, créer et réviser les tableaux croisés dynamiques.

Microsoft Excel 2003 - Level 1

This course is designed for persons preparing for certification as a Microsoft Office Specialist in Excel, who already have knowledge of the Microsoft Office Windows 98 (or above) operating system, and who desire to gain the skills necessary to create, edit, format, and print basic Microsoft Excel 2003 worksheets.

Microsoft Excel 2003 - Level 2

The target students for this course are students who desire to gain the skills necessary to create templates, sort and filter data, import and export data, analyze data, and work with Excel on the Web. In addition, this course helps prepare students who desire to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist exam in Excel - Module 2 and who already have knowledge of the basics of Excel, including how to create, edit, format, and print basic worksheets.

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 - Data Analysis and Business Modeling

Ready to move beyond simple Excel formulas? This hands-on class will show you how to apply business logic and learn some important math in a fairly painless fashion. For example, you’ll learn about statistics, forecasting, optimization models, Monte Carlo simulation, inventory modeling, and the mathematics of waiting in line. You will also learn about some recent developments in business thinking such as real options, customer value, and mathematical pricing models.

This unique 3-day class is offered at our ByWard Market centre and will take you deep into the heart of data analysis using Excel 2007.

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 - Level 1

This course is designed for people preparing for certification as a Microsoft Office Specialist in Excel, who already have knowledge of Microsoft Office, Windows 2000 (or above), and who desire to gain the skills necessary to create, edit, format, and print basic Microsoft Office Excel 2007 worksheets.

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 - Level 2

The target students for this course are students who desire to gain the skills necessary to create templates, sort and filter data, import and export data, analyze data, and work with Excel on the web. In addition, this course helps prepare students who desire to take the Microsoft Office Specialist exam in Excel and who already have knowledge of the basics of Excel, including how to create, edit, format, and print basic worksheets.

Microsoft Office Excel 2010 - Level 1

Microsoft Office Excel 2010 - Level 2

The target students for this course are students who desire to gain the skills necessary to create templates, sort and filter data, import and export data, analyze data, and work with Excel on the web. In addition, this course helps prepare students who desire to take the Microsoft Office Specialist exam in Excel and who already have knowledge of the basics of Excel, including how to create, edit, format, and print basic worksheets.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 - Level 1

You will explore the PowerPoint environment and create a new presentation. You will format text on slides to enhance clarity. In order to enhance the visual appeal, you will add graphical objects to a presentation and modify them. You will also add tables and charts to a presentation to present data in a structured form. You will then finalize a presentation to deliver it.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 - Level 2

This course is designed for students who desire to gain the skills necessary to work with design templates, various types of hierarchies, processes, or other diagrams, special effects, web presentations, and advanced presentation delivery. This course also helps in the preparation for the Microsoft Office Specialist exam in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007. It is for students who already have knowledge of the basics of Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, including slide formatting, and working with tables, charts, images, objects, and presentation preparation.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010 - Level 1

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010 - Level 2

This course is designed for students who desire to gain the skills necessary to work with design templates, various types of hierarchies, processes, or other diagrams, special effects, web presentations, and advanced presentation delivery. This course also helps in the preparation for the Microsoft Office Specialist exam in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. It is for students who already have knowledge of the basics of Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, including slide formatting, and working with tables, charts, images, objects, and presentation preparation.

Microsoft Office Word 2007 - Level 1

Word processing is the use of computers to create, revise, and save documents for printing and future retrieval. This course is the first in a series of three Microsoft Office Word 2007 courses. It will provide you with the basic concepts required to produce basic business documents.

Microsoft Office Word 2007 - Level 2

If you use Microsoft Word 2007 on a regular basis, then once you have mastered the basic skills, the next step is to improve your proficiency. To do so, you can customize and automate the way Microsoft Word 2007 works for you. You can also improve the quality of your work by enhancing your documents with customized Microsoft Word 2007 elements. In this course, you will create complex documents in Microsoft Word 2007 by adding components such as, customized lists, tables, charts, and graphics. You will also create personalized Microsoft Word 2007 efficiency tools.

Microsoft Office Word 2010 - Level 1

Word processing is the use of computers to create, revise, and save documents for printing and future retrieval. This course is the first in a series of three Microsoft Office Word 2010 courses. It will provide you with the basic concepts required to produce basic business documents.

Microsoft Office Word 2010 - Level 2

If you use Microsoft Word 2010 on a regular basis, then once you have mastered the basic skills, the next step is to improve your proficiency. To do so, you can customize and automate the way Microsoft Word 2010 works for you. You can also improve the quality of your work by enhancing your documents with customized Microsoft Word 2010 elements. In this course, you will create complex documents in Microsoft Word 2010 by adding components such as, customized lists, tables, charts, and graphics. You will also create personalized Microsoft Word 2010 efficiency tools.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2002/2003 - Niveau 1

Ce cours est un cours d’introduction à PowerPoint 2002/2003 se fixant sur les fonctions de base du logiciel.

À l'achèvement du cours, les participants pourront accomplir le suivant : Comprendre les notions de base de PowerPoint, utiliser le Compagnon Office, utiliser les techniques de présentation de base, utiliser les modèles de contenu, travailler avec le volet du plan, la mise en forme et la modification de texte, Imprimer des présentations, mettre en forme du texte d'une présentation, mettre en forme les puces et numéros, travailler le mode trieuse de diapositives, modifier plusieurs présentations, travailler avec des images, utiliser la barre d'outils Dessin, Exécuter un diaporama, Travailler avec l'aide en ligne.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2002/2003 - Niveau 2

Ce cours est un cours avancé à PowerPoint 2002/2003 se fixant sur les fonctions avancé du logiciel.

À l'achèvement du cours, les participants pourront accomplir le suivant : Comprendre les notions de base de PowerPoint, utiliser le Compagnon Office, utiliser les techniques de présentation de base, utiliser les modèles de contenu, travailler avec le volet du plan, la mise en forme et la modification de texte, Imprimer des présentations, mettre en forme du texte d'une présentation, mettre en forme les puces et numéros, travailler le mode trieuse de diapositives, modifier plusieurs présentations, travailler avec des images, utiliser la barre d'outils Dessin, Exécuter un diaporama, Travailler avec l'aide en ligne.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 - Level 1

In the past, you have used paper-based overhead systems to give presentations. Now, you want to upgrade those presentations to an electronic format. You can use Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 to give electronic presentations. This course is one of a series that addresses Microsoft Office Specialist (Office Specialist) skill sets. The Office Specialist program is for individuals who use Microsoft's business desktop software and who seek recognition for their expertise with specific Microsoft products. Certification candidates must pass one or more proficiency exams in order to earn Office Specialist certification.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 - Level 2

As a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 user familiar with the basics, you're able to convey information clearly without much glitz. That's okay, but you can do better audiences expect more than the basics. In this course, you will enhance presentations with features that will transform basic presentations into those with a powerful means of communication.

Microsoft Project 2003 - Niveau 1

Ce cours est un cours d’introduction à Project 2003 se fixant sur les fonctions de base du logiciel.

À l'achèvement du cours, les participants pourront accomplir le suivant : Les notions de base, les tâches, l’organisation des tâches, l’organisation de plans avec des tâches, les affichages, les ressources, les calendriers, la gestion des ressources, l’affectation de coûts et le chemin critique.

Microsoft Project 2003 - Niveau 2

Ce cours est un cours avancé à Project 2003 se fixant sur les fonctions avancé du logiciel.

À l'achèvement du cours, les participants pourront accomplir le suivant : La personnalisation de données de projets, le filtrage, le tri et le regroupement de données, autres fonctionnalités de personnalisation, la planification initiale, le suivi de la progression, l’évaluation et la distribution de données, la finalisation de projets, le travail avec plusieurs projets, les listes de ressources, l’importation et l’exportation de données et les images et les pages Web.

Microsoft Project 2002/03 - Level 1

This course is the first in a series of two courses designed for individuals who will use Microsoft Project 2002 as a tool to assist them in managing projects. The topics in this course cover the critical skills necessary to create and modify a project plan file that contains tasks, resources, and resource assignments. You will create a project plan file containing tasks, organize these tasks in a work breakdown structure containing task relationships, create and assign resources, and finalize the project in order to implement the project plan.

Microsoft SharePoint 2007 / WSS 3.0 - Level 1

In almost every office around the world, people communicate and share ideas to create products and services. This information sharing often requires multiple software and web applications that do not necessarily work together perfectly. In contrast, Windows SharePoint services combines familiar office tools, adds the latest technology, and extends the functionality of applications and the web into a single environment to share information and collaborate with colleagues, no matter where you are or how you access the information. In this course, you will create and edit content in a Windows SharePoint Services team website, and then you will create and manage your own team site.

Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 - Designing Custom SharePoint Sites

In SharePoint Designer 2007 - Designing Custom SharePoint Sites, we explore the use of SharePoint Designer 2007 to alter the default appearance of SharePoint web sites. This course covers topics from creating themes and making simple CSS changes to fully re-styling a site with master pages and Page Layout templates. Learn how a custom design aids usability and adoption by providing improved navigation, better visual cues in complex site hierarchies, and individual page layouts for site-specific content.

Topics include:
Setting site permissions
Customizing existing CSS files
Implementing the WCM (Web Content Management) features in SharePoint
Using master pages
Designing accessible pages
Creating a Page Layout template
Editing and copying themes
Building out the Publishing Portal
Customizing navigation

Microsoft SQL Server - Integration Services Using Visual Studio 2005 (certification 2792A)

SQL Server Integration Services Using Visual Studio 2005 provides you with the basic knowledge that you should have before you move onto more advanced ETL (Extraction, Transformation, and Loading). This hands-on class will take you right into the Visual Studio 2005 Integrated Development Interface, making you appreciate and understand how Business Intelligence Projects and Packages are created using the Visual Studio designer. You will get a comprehensive view of the many designer windows that you may encounter while working with the designer. Learn the building blocks, described by example, as well as the nuts and bolts that bind the blocks. You start building packages right from Section 2 and continue onto Section 20, gathering and building upon your knowledge in each step.

Microsoft SQL Server - Maintaining SQL Server 2005 (certification 2780B)

This five-day instructor-led course provides students with product knowledge and skills needed to maintain a Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 database. The course focuses on teaching individuals how to use SQL Server 2005 product features and tools related to maintaining a database.
After completing this course, students will be able to:

Install and configure SQL Server 2005.
Manage database files.
Backup and restore databases.
Manage security.
Monitor SQL Server.
Transfer data into and out of SQL Server.
Automate administrative tasks.
Replicate data between SQL Server instances.
Maintain high availability.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2010

Visual Basic 2010 is a development tool that you can use to build software applications that perform useful work and look great within a variety of settings. Using Visual Basic 2010, you can create applications for the Windows operating system, the Web, hand-held devices, and a host of other environments and settings. The most important advantage of Visual Basic is that it has been designed to increase productivity in your daily development work especially if you need to use information in databases or create solutions for the Internet but an important additional benefit is that once you become comfortable with the development environment in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, you can use the same tools to write programs for Microsoft Visual C++ 2010, Microsoft Visual C# 2010, Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010, and other third-party tools and compilers.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: ASP.NET 4

Microsoft Windows 8: New Features

You are familiar with the earlier versions of Microsoft's Windows operating systems. Every new Windows version includes features and enhancements to overcome the limitations and drawbacks of its predecessors. Microsoft Windows 8 is the latest release in the Microsoft Windows operating system family. In this course, you will use the new features in Windows Vista to improve your workflow efficiency and business productivity.

Microsoft Word 2002/2003 - Niveau 1

Ce cours est une introduction à Word 2002/2003 se fixant sur les fonctions de base du logiciel.

À l'achèvement du cours, les participants pourront accomplir le suivant : L’exploration de Word, le compagnon office, les documents Word, l’affichage de documents, la saisie et la modification de texte, la vérification de la grammaire et de l’orthographe, l’impression, la mise en forme de caractères, la mise en forme de paragraphes, la mise ne retrait de paragraphes, les styles, la mise en forme de documents, la définition de tabulations, les listes numérotées et les listes à puces, les en-têtes et les pieds de page, les sauts de section et l’aide en ligne.

Microsoft Word 2002/2003 - Niveau 2

Ce cours est un cours intermédiaire à Word 2002 se fixant sur les fonctions intermédiaire du logiciel.

À l'achèvement du cours, les participants pourront accomplir le suivant : L’insertion de la date et de symboles, la mise en forme automatique, les tableaux, la modification de tableaux, les bordures et les trames, les objets dessinés, l’insertion d’images, les graphiques et les diagrammes, la correction automatique, l’insertion automatique, les fonctionnalités rechercher et remplacer, le dictionnaire de synonymes, les modèles et les assistants, les colonnes de type journal, l’affichage plan, les fonctionnalités HTML de Word, le partage de commentaires et la fusion de documents et la gestion de fichiers.

Microsoft Word 2002/2003 - Niveau 3

Ce cours est un cours avancé à Word 2002 se fixant sur les fonctions avancé du logiciel.

À l'achèvement du cours, les participants pourront accomplir le suivant : La fusion et le publipostage, la fusion d’étiquettes de publipostage et de répertoires, le tri des données d’un tableau, les formules dans un tableau, l’importation de feuilles de calcul Excel, les listes, les macros, les formulaires, le suivi des modifications, la mise en forme de longs documents, la création d’une table des matières, la création d’un indexe, les signets, les notes de bas de page et de fin, la création de documents maîtres et la personnalisation des préférences Word.

Microsoft XNA: Graphics and Game Programming for Xbox 360

Mocha Pro for VFX Production

vfx workflow evolution

Leveraging more than 8 years of engineering research and development, mocha Pro offers digital media artists a powerful, intuitive and innovative planar tracking-based solution with a streamlined interface, accelerated workflow and the power to easily track and manipulate shots not possible with traditional solutions. mocha Pro is the ideal VFX complement for film/video post production, creative motion graphics and 2D-3D conversion pipelines.

Join our intructor-driven, hands-on class and see how mocha Pro delivers all the planar tracking and rotoscoping tools from the award winning software, mocha and adds compositing tools for match moving, auto image and wire removal, clean plate generation, lens distortion correction and stabilization, to deliver an all-in-one master VFX tool set. By combining the best of legacy products mokey and monet, Imagineer now offers one product with all the features. mocha Pro's remove module is the industry's most unique alternative to painting, cloning & manual tracking.

MySQL: Fundamentals of Databases

Storing and accessing data are part of a person's day-to-day activities. One of the most efficient and powerful ways of managing data is by using databases. Information can be stored, linked, and managed using a database application such as MySQL 5.1. In the Fundamentals of Databases Using MySQL course, you will work with the databases using MySQL. This course is designed for people who are familiar with the Windows environment and any Office productivity application, and who wish to acquire competency in performing basic database operations and administration using the MySQL RDBMS or various similar SQL-based RDBMS products. The other student profile would be IT systems managers who will be working within a MySQL RDBMS-based enterprise IT department and need to interact in a productive manner with MySQL RDBMS technical professionals. It can also be used by students who wish to gain familiarity with database system terminologies and usage so as to pursue a career as a MySQL RDBMS technical professional.

PRO SERIES: Creating Illustrations Using Digital Tools

When illustrating digitally for Web or print media, one of the skills artists and designers need to have is the ability to draw with vector digital tools. This intensive class provides professional tips and techniques while introducing you to the industry's leading vector-drawing program Adobe Illustrator. Learn how digital illustrations are produced with a variety of lines and fills, gradients and blends, and special effects. Demonstrations and hands-on exercises are presented by professionals who use the tools every day. This class gives students the foundation to create and integrate original graphics digitally.

PRO SERIES: Elements Of Visual Communications

In this foundation class, students explore the fundamentals of design for print media, Web design, and multimedia. By building awareness of elements of well-designed visual communication, students start to develop conceptual skills needed to create designs that communicate utilizing composition, balance, eye movement, and element control. Using traditional methods and electronic design tools, students participate in exercises working with elements such as line, shape, scale, texture, and perspective. The effect of color in communicating is examined through hue, value, intensity, balance, and color psychology. Lectures, demonstrations, assignments, and critiques offer a balanced framework for developing creative perception, critical thinking, and visual communication. Some basics in Photoshop and Illustrator software are taught that pertain only to work on lab exercises (does not substitute for a full course in these programs).

PRO SERIES: Exploring Advanced Web Techniques

This course provides hands-on training in creating advanced Web pages using DreamWeaver CS3. For this fast-paced class, it is expected that students are already experienced in the basics of Web site design and familiar with DreamWeaver. Create and produce Web pages with advanced functionality incorporating elements such as Flash, QuickTime movies, MP3 audio files, and animated gifs. The class covers advanced design and layout control techniques working with tables and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS.)

PRO SERIES: Photoshop CS3 Channels & Masks

The elusive alpha channel remains one of the most misunderstood yet powerful tools in Photoshop. Alpha channels are collections of luminance data that control the transparency of an image, and they inform just about every aspect of Photoshop. Selections, layer boundaries, masks, the Quick Mask mode, layer masks, knockouts, and masking with the Channels palette all rely on alpha channels. In Photoshop CS3 Channels and Masks, the student learns channels and masks comprehensively. From channel masks to blue screens, blend modes to displacement maps, Color Range to Calculations, this training leaves no pixel unturned. Also covers how to select and composite highlights, shadows, people, fabric, feathers, glass, flames, lighting, and wispy hair.

PRO SERIES: Production And Pre-Press Techniques

There are more printing options available today then ever before�from traditional offset and letterpress to all the new digital electronic choices. The Internet has become a very important vehicle for printers to estimate and bid out jobs, edit, check, and create cross-media publishing work-flows. It is essential that graphic designers know about these various printing options and what they must do to design and prepare for each. This course offers computer labs and hands-on experience in pre-press and pre-flight preparation. Through lectures, homework assignments, and tours students learn to make enlightened decisions about output and estimating costs for the variety of printing opportunities available today.

PRO SERIES: Strategies And Concepts Of Graphic Design

Creative problem solving demands a combined knowledge of photography, typography, drawing, computer graphics, brainstorming techniques, and production methods. This course familiarizes students with the complete graphic design process and concentrates on applied activity. Participants learn the design process by experiencing it. This hands-on overview is perfect for anyone involved in publishing, advertising, or corporate design projects. The emphasis is on having students create professional portfolio pieces with the expectation of applying their experience and creative efforts toward working in the field of graphic design and related areas.

PRO SERIES: Working with Color

Working with Colour is designed to help anyone understand the basic principles of colour relationships, especially as they relate to digital design and/or composition. Part one of the training begins with a lecture on colour principles featuring value, hue and color relationships. Part two of the training involves a workshop covering digital colour mixing, shifting, saturation, tinting, shading, hue, toning, the creation of swatches, personalized color systems and more. Step-by-step instructions using Adobe Photoshop guide you through a number of exercises so you can learn at your own pace.

QuarkXPress 10 - Level 1, Introduction

QuarkXPress has long been the leading publication layout tool for design professionals. Student will learn to master the powerful layout features that allow you to combine text, vector graphics, colour and images to produce various types of publications and marketing collateral.

QuarkXPress 10 - Level 2, Advanced

This course will extend the participant's QuarkXPress skills by covering features such as creating projects, working in layers, as well as creating large publications with indexes and table of contents. Student will learn to create dynamic lists of figures and credits, and how to optimize their work for press conditions.

Seach Engine Ranking and Optimization

This course attempts to demystify the process of how search engines, bots, and spiders archive and rank information. Participants will learn how to use META tags, KEYWORDS, and other methods to gain and maintain good engine placements.

SilhouetteFX - Master Rotoscoping

Rotoscoping is absolutely essential for all types of Visual Effects works. This hands-on course will help demystify this work and aim to take your skills quickly up to the next level.

Using SilhouetteFX, an industry standard tool, you learn not only button-pushing but actually how to analyse your shot, to save you time in what can be an extremely long and arduous job. We will examine the full range of tools available to you to create the perfect mattes and masks.

Snagit 11

With Snagit's capture, edit, organize and share technology... it's easy to create engaging visuals that grab attention and keep it. Let images do the talking for you.

Use Snagit to capture any image you want straight off your computer screen. Enhance with transparency, callouts, and other effects to turn a simple screen shot into an eye-grabbing visual. Easily organize your images and use them again and again for other projects. Then show off your Snagit creations to anyone. Just add them to your documents and presentations... or share using your favorite applications.

It doesn't take much to explain a concept or an idea with Snagit. The images you create do the talking. And the more you use Snagit, the more ways you'll find to use it!

Social Media Marketing

Are you looking to take advantage of social media for your business or organization?

Using an objective based approach, this class will show you how to implement campaigns intelligently, and then measure results and track return on investment. Whether you're a seasoned pro or new to the social web, this class will take you beyond the jargon to social media marketing mastery.

SQL: Advanced Querying

This course is intended for those that know how to perform basic SQL querying. Because of various business conditions and requirements, you may need to perform advanced queries as well as modify the table structures and indexing. Being able to manipulate the design of your database through code is very important for anyone interfacing them to web application through .NET, PHP, and many other technologies.

SQL: Fundamentals of Querying

You have access to company databases and your job may require you to retrieve data from them to answer important business questions. Retrieval of information is dependent on precisely ordered logic and specific information. The course, SQL: Fundamentals of Querying will help you use Structured Query Language (SQL) as a tool to implement logic and define instructions. This class is also valuable to those interfacing databases to web technologies like ASP, .NET, Visual Basic, PHP, and Cold Fusion.

Successful Management of Web Site Projects

This course teaches essential principles for delivering effective Web projects on time and on budget! Take this course to learn a proven system for planning and managing Web sites. Our process addresses project management issues specific to the Web, resulting in quality control, quality assurance and timely delivery for Web and new media projects. You will become more valuable to your organization by equipping yourself with a step-by-step process which will reduce risk and stress, anticipate hurdles, and increase your chances of making your Web project a success by building quality in at every step.

WordPerfect 12 - Level 2

In the first course in this series, WordPerfect 12 - Level 1, you gained all the basic skills that you need to create a wide range of standardized business documents. If you use WordPerfect 12 on a regular basis, then once you have mastered the basic skills, the next step is to improve your proficiency. To do so, you can customize and automate the way WordPerfect 12 works for you, and you can improve the quality of your work by enhancing your documents with customized WordPerfect 12 elements. In this course, you will increase the complexity of your WordPerfect 12 documents by adding components such as customized lists, tables, charts, and graphics. You will also create personalized WordPerfect 12 efficiency tools.

WordPerfect 12 - Level 1

You will gain a basic understanding of word processing, and how to apply that understanding within the WordPerfect environment.

WordPerfect 12 - Level 3

If you use WordPerfect 12 on a regular basis, then once you have mastered the basic skills, the next step is to improve your proficiency. To do so, you can customize and automate the way WordPerfect 12 works for you. WordPerfect 12 - Level 3 expands your level of productivity by customizing the WordPerfect environment. In addition, you will work with graphics to enhance your documents. You will collaborate with others while reviewing and changing documents. You will also manage large documents and work with legal documents. Finally, you will learn to share files with others that do not have WordPerfect.

WordPress 3.x for Designers

This instructor-led class is for people who want to use WordPress. It's for web designers who'd like to get to know WordPress a little better -- or a lot better. It's for writers who have been asked to contribute content to a WordPress site, but haven't been shown how to use the software. It's for server administrators who'd like to know more about this little CMS that users are always asking them to install. It's for Drupal developers who suddenly need to write a WordPress plugin for a client this week. If you're familiar with PHP or MySQL, or if you've used another open source content management system in the past, great!

This class will take you from novice to professional. By the end, you'll know not only how to manage and customize your own site, but how to contribute your innovations back to the community by submitting plugins and themes to the central repository at wordpress.org. If you've never touched PHP before, that's OK. Understanding arrays, for example, might be necessary if you want to write your own plugin, but not if you want to install the software and configure your site with plugins and themes. And if you do want to learn more about code, WordPress is a great place to start.

XHTML

Transitional Hypertext markup language (xHTML) is build on a more stringent nomenclature than it's HTML predecessor and brings better structure and consistency to your web development. This course is intended for people who are new to coding and want to create and undertand the code behind their sites.

XHTML (Français)

La langue de balisage hypertexte XHTML est construit sur une nomenclature plus strictes que son prédécesseur HTML et apporte une meilleure structure et la cohérence de votre développement web. Ce cours est destiné aux personnes qui sont nouveau au codage et qui souhaite créer et comprendre le code derrière leurs sites.

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Ce cours est donnée en français avec la terminologie anglaise et en utilisant la version anglaise du logiciel.

XML - Introduction

This one-day course introduces the eXtensible Markup Language, or XML, including basic grammar and XML validation using DTDs or XML Schema. Students learn to read and to hand-write XML well-formed XML documents, and then proceed to modeling concepts, first learning the basic DTD language and then studying namespaces and XML Schema. The course closes with a chapter on important XML-related technology, including XPath, XSLT, SAX or DOM parsing, and SOAP-based Web services.

The module presents what might be called "Pure XML" -- by which we mean two things. Firstly, everything in the module is based strictly on W3C specifications, without any vendor-specific extensions. Secondly, no knowledge of any particular programming language or other external technology is required to participate fully in the module. Thus the hands-on exercises, and the knowledge that is developed, are portable and applicable to any XML authoring or development effort.

XML Training Learning Objectives

Understand the broad influence of XML on emerging software architectures.
Write well-formed XML documents to express simple or complex document content.
Write DTDs to set rules for XML document validation.
Write valid XML documents with internal and/or external document type definitions.
Understand the limitations of DTDs in expressing document and object designs and in setting strict validation rules.
Read and write XML using namespaces to import type information and to partition the XML namespace.
Use XML Schema to validate XML documents.
Understand the roles of XPath, XSLT, parsing, and Web services in the broader scope of XML technology in software applications.

XML for the Enterprise

This comprehensive course provides a full tour of the most prevalent XML standards, and introductory-to-intermediate training in each: XML itself, XML Schema, XSLT, and XSLFO. This is a great fit for students who are planning to work extensively with XML in the near future, as it gives a good grounding in how to manage XML information, define XML models (using XML Schema), transform XML information to text, HTML, or other XML formats (using XSLT), or to print-ready PDFs (using XSLFO).

XML Training Learning Objectives

Understand the broad influence of XML on emerging software architectures.
Understand the roles of XML Schema, XPath, XSLT, XSLFO, parsing APIs, and Web services in the broader scope of XML technology in software applications.
Write well-formed XML documents to express simple or complex document content.
Write DTDs to set rules for XML document validation.
Read and write XML using namespaces to import type information and to partition the XML namespace.
Use XML Schema to validate XML documents.
Define simple types, and use value restrictions and enumerations to constrain values.
Create complex types, including simple types and other complex types, and empty- and mixed-content types.
Write simple and complex queries into XML document content using XPath.
Transform XML data into plain text, HTML, or XML formats.
Describe the relationship between XSLT and XSLFO, and their roles in the typical XML-to-print production process.
Transform XML data into FO documents, and format those into PDFs.

XML Schema

This course gives the student who knows the fundamentals of XML a detailed introduction to the XML Schema standard for defining document type information.

The first module introduces the new XML Schema recommendation. Students review the shortcomings of the DTD for expressing type information, and learn how to use XML Schema to create strict document models. Schema data types and structures are studied, allowing precise grammar and validation rules to be defined for document content.

A second module offers intermediate-to-advanced instruction in effective use of the new XML Schema recommendation. Students build skills in use of keys and key references to associate elements based on key fields; cover complex-type extension; use of multiple namespaces and schema; and finally a chapter in best-practices in schema design.

XML Training Learning Objectives

Develop XML Schema to express precise type information for an XML document.
Associate schema with XML instance documents.
Validate instance documents against associated schema.
Define simple types, and use value restrictions and enumerations to constrain values.
Define list types and union types.
Create complex types, including simple types and other complex types, and empty- and mixed-content types.
Define element and attribute groups for better reuse and more maintainable schema.
Associate elements of different types using keys and key references.
Create derived simple and complex types using restriction and/or extension.
Develop hierarchies of reusable complex types using type extension.
Populate multiple namespaces using schema, and import and use those namespaces in valid instance documents.
Design schema that maximize validation capabilities and type reuse.
Use XSLT as an additional stage of document validation, to catch patterns that XML Schema cannot be used to express.

XSLFO (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects)

This course introduces the eXtensible Stylesheet Language, or XSL -- also known as XSL with Formatting Objects or XSLFO, to distinguish it clearly from XSLT. XSLFO provides the ultimate, standards-based solution to producing print and other presentation documents from XML information. This course teaches XSL with a focus on producing PDFs, using Apache FOP as the formatting engine. Though XSL is quite a dense technology, this one-day course provides a solid grounding in the basic techniques, and students will leave the course ready to tackle simple to moderately complex formatting tasks.

XML Training Learning Objectives

Describe the relationship between XSLT and XSLFO, and their roles in the typical XML-to-print production process.
Understand the formatting objects model, including the concepts of page, area, block, and line.
Build page masters and master sets to define common page layouts and area models.
Build page sequences to produce body, header and footer content.
Format content using blocks, inlines, lists and tables.
Take explicit control of document pagination.
Apply properties to formatting objects and use XSLFO's property-inheritance model effectively.
Build tables of contents and embed hyperlinks into documents.

XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations)

This comprehensive four-day course develops in-depth knowledge and skills in transforming XML documents using eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations, or XSLT. Students work through extensive hands-on exercises in transformations from XML to plain text, HTML, and XML, with good grounding in XPath along the way. Intermediate and advanced techniques are also covered including variables and parameters, callable templates, sorting and grouping, tail recursion, working with multiple documents, and XSLT extensions. The course teaches XPath and XSLT 1.0 but looks forward to the 2.0 releases of both specifications with pointers about what new features to expect.

XML Training Learning Objectives

Write simple and complex queries into XML document content using XPath.
Harness the built-in template rules to process just the right source information, getting maximum leverage from the XSLT processor.
Control the exact production of text, HTML and XML elements, and whitespace.
Use mode and priority to control template matching.
Use looping and conditional processing to manage output production.
Declare, bind and reference XSLT variables and parameters.
Use callable templates to capture common transformations and styling.
Filter and sort XSLT output.
Use XSLT keys and other techniques to achieve grouping in transformation output and to derive aggregate information on groups.
Produce refined transformation output including auto-numbering, formatted numeric output, and aggregate values such as sums and counts.
Implement more complex processes using tail recursion in callable templates.
Use the XSLT document function to manage multiple source documents.
Import and include multiple transform definitions to foster reuse of transformation logic.
Use XSLT extensions to empower transforms with more sophisticated and reusable logic.

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