Connecticut Information Technology Institute

ETPL# 8195

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC puts the power of the Portable Document Format, literally, at your fingertips. By taking advantage of the functionality & features available in Acrobat, you will ensure the integrity of your documents regardless of who views them.

Course Objectives:
In this course, you will create and work with PDF documents. You will:

• Access information in a PDF document
• Create and save PDF documents
• Navigate content in a PDF document
• Modify PDF documents
• Review PDF documents
• Convert PDF documents

Delivery Method:  Online Live Virtual Instructor Led Training

Intended Audience: This course is for individuals who are new to Adobe Acrobat Pro, but need to create and share PDF files and PDF portfolios. Students should have some experience using office productivity applications, such as word processor, a multimedia presentation application, or a spreadsheet application.

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ETPL# 9677

Course Objectives:
In this course, students will use Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to convert technical documents to PDF files, enhance PDF documents, create interactive PDF forms, and prepare PDF files for commercial printing.

Delivery Method:  Online Live Virtual Instructor Led Training

Intended Audience:  The target students for this course are office professionals with a foundational understanding of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC who want to use the advanced productivity features and the creative features of Acrobat Pro DC.

This course requires a desktop/laptop set up. A dual monitor display is recommended for an enhanced learning experience.

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A course that teaches the core Adobe Captivate skills needed to create eLearning courses.

Course Objectives

• You will learn how to create a soft-skills lesson from scratch.
• You will learn to record and produce software demonstrations, interactive training simulations, and Video Demos.
• By the time you finish, you will know how to add such standard objects to a slide as text captions, images, characters, videos, Smart Shapes, and more.
• You will record, import, and edit audio.
• You will also further enhance the learner experience by adding interactivity via click boxes, buttons, text entry boxes, and quizzes.
• You will learn how to import existing PowerPoint content into Captivate.
• You will learn to publish a Captivate project as SWF, PDF, or HTML5 so that your content can be used on virtually any device including desktop computers, laptops, smart phones, and tablets.

Delivery Method: Online Live Virtual Instructor Led Training
This course requires a desktop/laptop set up. A dual monitor display is recommended for an enhanced learning experience.

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A course that teaches the higher-end, more advanced functionality of Adobe Captivate 2019.

Course Objectives

• You will learn advanced Adobe Captivate concepts.
• You will learn to create highly interactive software simulation and to control the text that appears in the recording’s text captions by editing Captivates text capture templates.
• You will create responsive lessons (using Fluid Boxes and Breakpoints) that automatically reflow to fit just about any kind of display including desktops, laptops, tablets, and smart phones.
• Learn new features that Captivate now supports; such as, Virtual Reality with 360-degree images and videos along with interactive videos.
• Fine-tune your Captivate production skills by leveraging object styles, master slides, themes, and advanced actions.
• Engage your learners by adding variables, widgets, and learner interactions (including drag and drop) to your eLearning.
• Learn to create object styles, apply them globally, and import and export them. Knock large projects down to size by learning to create branch groups.
• Create branching scenarios that allow learners to plot their own path through your course.
• You will also learn to create templates.
• Ensure your eLearning can be used by people with disabilities by adding such 508-compliant features as accessibility text, keyboard shortcuts, and closed captions.
• Enable Captivates reporting features and, along the way, learn about Learning Management Systems, SCORM, SCOs, Manifests, and content packages.

Delivery Method: Online Live Virtual Instructor Led Training

This course requires a desktop/laptop set up. A Mac may be needed for this course. A dual monitor display is recommended for an enhanced learning experience.

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ETPL# 8191

To meet the demands of individuals and organizations for flexible, reusable, and easily modified visual content, Adobe Systems has created a cadre of applications that collectively provide a scalable, end-to-end solution for nearly every type of visual design project one can contemplate. Called Creative Cloud™ (CC), the collection of applications perform specialized design tasks while interoperating among each other to deliver superlative content. This course covers the Graphic Design & Illustration Using Adobe Illustrator CC objectives to help students prepare for the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exam. This course is also designed to cover the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exam objectives.

Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to use Adobe Illustrator CC to create illustrations that include graphics and text. You will:

• Identify the components and capabilities of Illustrator CC.
• Create basic shapes
• Create custom paths.
• Create graphics that contain custom text.
• Customize objects.
• Customize basic shapes.
• Prepare documents for deployment.
• Draw complex illustrations.
• Enhance artwork by using painting tools.
• Customize colors and swatches.
• Format type.
• Enhance the appearance of artwork.
• Prepare content for deployment.
• Set up project requirements.

Delivery Method:  Online Live Virtual Instructor Led Training

Intended Audience: This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people switching to a design job or taking on design responsibilities and who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.

This course requires a desktop/laptop set up. A dual monitor display is recommended for an enhanced learning experience.

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Giving your documents a well-designed, professional look will put you a step ahead in the marketplace cluttered with all kinds of communications. Paragraph and character styles that allow you to format pages of text uniformly, layout features that help you to build alternate size configurations of your document, and various panels that enable you to easily customize both text and graphics; Adobe® InDesign® CC (2018) has all the tools you need to elevate the look of your document and get it out to the people who need to see it, whether it be in print or on the web. This course is a great component of your preparation for the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) InDesign CC exam and the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) Print & Digital Media Publication Using Adobe InDesign exam.

Course Objectives:
In this course, you will use Adobe InDesign CC (2018) to create and deliver professional looking printed and interactive documents. You will:

• Navigate the InDesign interface.
• Create a new document.
• Customize a document using color, swatches, gradients, and styles.
• Manage page elements.
• Add tables.
• Prepare documents for deployment.
• Prepare documents for multiple formats.
• Manage advanced page layouts.
• Manage styles. • Build complex paths.
• Manage external files and create dynamic documents.
• Manage long documents.
• Publish InDesign files for other formats and customize print settings.

Delivery Method:  Online Live Virtual Instructor Led Training

Intended Audience: This course is intended for students who want to use the basic tools and features of InDesign for creating professional page layouts and designs

This course requires a desktop/laptop set up. A dual monitor display is recommended for an enhanced learning experience.

This course requires a desktop/laptop set up. A dual monitor display is recommended for an enhanced learning experience.

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Adobe® Photoshop® CC: Part 1 focuses on some of the basic features of Photoshop so that the student can navigate the environment and use Photoshop tools to work with photographic images. In addition, the orientation to Adobe® Bridge and organization of files in Bridge is covered. Although Photoshop is used by a variety of professionals, from photographers to designers to videographers, Photoshop Part 1 will focus mainly on the photography component. The illustration and animation techniques are covered in subsequent levels of Photoshop. This course is a great component of your preparation for the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE): Photoshop CC exam and the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) Visual Communication Using Adobe Photoshop CC exam.

Course Objectives:
This course will prepare you to use the most common basic features of Adobe Photoshop CC. In this course, you will:

• Identify the components and capabilities of Photoshop CC.
• Create basic images.
• Manage selections and layers.
• Modify and repair images and manage color.
• Refine images by adjusting layers, using camera raw, and applying advanced image refinement.
• Import, export, organize, and save files.
• Use brushes, gradients, and tool presets to create raster images.
• Apply vector paths, shape drawing tools, type, and type special effects.
• Apply advanced layer techniques with masks, filters, layers, and smart objects.
• Apply actions and batch processing to automate tasks.
• Edit video by using timelines, transitions, graphics, titles, and animation.
• Set project requirements by identifying the purpose, audience, copyright rules, and project management tasks.

Delivery Method:  Online Live Virtual Instructor Led Training

Intended Audience: Target students include professional or amateur photographers who want to use the robust features of Photoshop to enhance, modify, and organize their photographs, and anyone interested in working toward the Visual Communications with Adobe Photoshop CC certification.

This course requires a desktop/laptop set up. A dual monitor display is recommended for an enhanced learning experience.

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