ready2teach
Learn. Understand.
Remember. Teach.
ready2teach is a live, mentored online training program for educators and school administrators. Master the best of Adobe's software products in a collaborative, supportive environment and then apply that learning in the classroom.
We have over 150 live training sessions throughout the year, run at different times of the day. If you can't make the live session, watch a recording anytime that suits. ready2teach is the ideal resource to keep educators on top of technology.
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ready2teach is an exciting initiative enabling teachers to harness the power of Adobe to build engaging learning experiences in the classroom.
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John Paull
Education Business Development Manager, Adobe
the program
Live training sessions that you can do in bite size chunks.
Live training - Over 150 sessions each year
We cover the best that Adobe software has to offer you as an educator. The classes are online, so you can relax while you learn, interact and explore how easily it is to build, design and use Adobe technology to enhance the learning experience.
We know your time is limited and technology is moving at a rapid pace so we have designed these modules to be 45 minutes in length
Join the class live and get your questions answered in a fun, engaging environment or view the recordings anytime that suits you.
If you're looking for a way to get across the best of Adobe's software and fast-track your approach to getting great learning content into the classroom, this is it.
our courses
Catch multiple live sessions. See recorded training anytime, anyplace.
Starting 6 Feb through to 7 Dec 2012, classes are delivered at various times of the day so you get to join the live sessions at a time that suits you.
Many of the classes are run twice a year so if you miss a module in the first half you can attend in the second.
Want to see a ready2teach tutorial sample? Take a look at this session where attendees learn how to create and run a room using Adobe Connect.
*Please note that if you are a registered user you can view recorded tutorials where you see this icon: Play
Our program is focused on Adobe software commonly used across the education sector. Take a closer look at the course overviews:
Adobe Presenter
Whether you need to publish course material online, create engaging multimedia presentations or provide interactive web assets, lesson plans, present past-student's projects to your class, Adobe Presenter enables you to implement a blended learning approach using your existing PowerPoint platform.
With our 5x45 minute Adobe Presenter online tutorials, learn how to: update and re-purpose your lesson plans to align with any curriculum changes; add audio to your content; publish content online via Adobe Connect; and create interactive multimedia such as quizzes, animations, links and videos.
- Play Introduction to Presenter
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Gain a high level introduction of Adobe Presenter and its basic functions. This overview will demonstrate the publishing process to create the final files, review Presenter settings and how to add audio, flash and quiz questions.
- Play Preferences, audio & customising
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Learn about the options available in Presenter including understanding the preferences, slide manager options, audio and how to adjust Theme settings. settings.
- Play Adding video & Flash files to presentations
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Learn how to add videos and Flash files, and discover the options available with Presenter for further file manipulation.
- Play Quizzing
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Learn about adding quizzes, quiz options and preferences, different types of questions available and how to quickly format a quiz.
- Play Publishing
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Learn about the publishing functions and options available. This session will also include information about Adobe Connect Pro and editing the XML files after publishing.
Adobe Captivate
Designed to help you engage students through interactive eLearning content such as simulations on the application of school software, Adobe Captivate is ideal for Librarians, ICT teachers and other education professionals who are responsible for the area of computer literacy.
Our 9x45 minute Adobe Captivate online tutorials help you develop and build interactive simulation and scenario experiences for your students, covering topics such as: adding audio to your simulation; importing existing PowerPoint content; and developing quiz questions to reinforce learning, including question types and weighting, how to set pass marks and how to apply branching logic.
- Play What can Captivate do?
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Gain a very high level understanding of what Captivate can do. This lesson introduces you to the layout, basic functionality, options and publishing processes.
- Play Recording options & the best screen size
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Learn about the recording settings and adjusting these settings to obtain the best result for your recording. Understanding these options early on should save you a lot of time and effort.
- Play The Workspace, editing a project & adding audio
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Learn about how to customise the layout, learn about the different window programming options, understand the timeline & how to use it, add audio to the slide and objects, add notes that can be used for narration or for use with Text to Speech and Closed Captioning.
- Play Inserting & using basic objects
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Learn how to insert and use a range of basic objects that are part of the standard features in Captivate.
- Play Inserting & using advanced objects
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Learn how to insert and use the more advanced objects that Captivate has to offer.
- Play Explaining quiz question types & options
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Learn how to use the different types of questions within the context of a quiz and understand what options are available for each type of question.
- Play Question pools, random questions & quiz preferences
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Learn how to group questions into pools, how to use Random questions and gain an understanding of quiz preferences and settings.
- Play Project preferences, skins editor & publishing
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Learn about the different options available within a Captivate project, the Skin Editor (what the exterior of the published file will look like), inserting a Table of Contents and the options for publishing your content to SWF, HTML, MP4 and more.
- Play Library, effects, aggregator project & help
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Learn about the Captivate Library and its functions, how to add extra effects to objects, creating and understanding the benefits of an aggregator project and where to find information and help online.
Adobe Connect
Designed to help teachers and lecturers extend teaching outside the classroom, plus maximise student engagement and collaboration, Adobe Connect gives you the ability to share and deliver course material online, such as connecting your classroom with a sister school or engaging a subject matter expert to speak to your students from afar.
Thanks to our Adobe Connect 6x45 minute online tutorials, you can enjoy access to the latest information and tips, including how to: schedule online seminars or classes; deliver interactive online content; integrate audio and video in the classroom; and record, re-use and re-purpose online sessions.
- Play Introduction to Connect Meetings
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Introduction to an Adobe Connect Meeting Room (web-conferencing), learn about the basic functions available within a meeting room.
- Play Create a meeting room & running your room
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Learn about how to create a meeting room and available options, how to prepare the room for your up coming meeting, understand the 3 roles of a meeting room and start to look in-depth into pods (modular building blocks for a meeting room) available for your use.
- Play Cameras, fileshare, polls & other pods
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Learn about all the other pods (modular building blocks for a meeting room) that are available and basic functionality they offer to the host and the participants.
- Play Trouble shooting & meeting reporting
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Learn about how to troubleshoot audio issues that participants may face, looking at the reports that are available to the Meeting Manager/Host, understand the structure of the Content library & how to be manage it, and how to create Meeting Room Templates.
- Play Creating & using Breakout Rooms
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Learn about using Breakout Rooms and options available, how to use and understand the Breakout Room Configurator, starting a breakout session and functionality within an active breakout room.
- Play Administrating the Connect Server
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Learn about Administration options and best practice, customisations available to personalise the look and feel of various areas, the global settings for every meeting room across your Connect system, how to set up a telephony connection (if available) and address general issues that participants may have including steps to resolution.
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat enables you to manage your course material in a truly electronic environment. Create and automate document templates, simplify the management of your curriculum projects, and digitally assess student work using PDF mark-ups and collaborative reviewing for ultimate convenience and efficiency.
Adobe Acrobat's 8x45 minute online tutorial topics include: how to create PDFs; how to use Acrobat with MS Office files; and how to enhance and edit PDF documents.
- Play Getting to know Acrobat
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Learn basic functions and navigation of the Acrobat work area.
- Play Creating PDF files
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Learn how to create PDF files, convert various files to PDF and print output.
- Play Reading & working with PDF files
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Learn about the basics of reading, printing and filling out PDF documents as well as document flexibility and accessibility.
- Play Using Acrobat with MS Office files
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Learn about Acrobat PDF maker and how to convert MS Office files to PDF.
- Play Enhancing & editing PDF documents
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Learn some enhanced functionality such as editing PDF pages and adding multimedia files.
- Play Combining files in PDF portfolios
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Learn how to create, customise and share a PDF portfolio.
- Play Adding signatures & security
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Learn how to view and apply security setting to files as well as signing documents digitally.
- Play Using Acrobat in a review Cycle
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Learn how to use Acrobat in a document review process.
Adobe Premiere Pro
Create video content for the classroom, the web and online distance education with Adobe Premier. The perfect platform on which to engage your students, Adobe Premier lets you merge video clips and photos, create movies with automated options, enhance stories with professional effects and sound, and share interactive content such as sports carnivals, musical reviews or student projects on DVD, mobile and YouTube.
Our 11x45 minute Adobe Premiere online tutorials cover topics including: settings, preferences and managing assets; creating cuts only video; adding video transitions; applying editing tools and video effects; acquiring and editing audio; managing your projects; and exporting frames, clips and sequences.
- Play Getting to know Premier Pro
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Learn about the basics of interface of Premiere Pro including work flow and workspaces.
- Play Settings, preferences & managing assets
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Learn about the selection and setting of preferences and the management of assets including the use of the Media Browser.
- Play Creating cuts only video
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Learn about the basics of making cuts only video edits including the various editing tools and trimming clips.
- Play Adding video transitions
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Learn about the addition of video transitions their use and how to adjust their settings.
- Play Creating dynamic titles
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Learn about the creation of interesting and dynamic titles including rolling and crawling titles.
- Play Applying specialised editing tools
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Learn about the more specialised editing tools of Premiere Pro including rolling, sliding and slipping edits.
- Play Adding video effects
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Learn about the addition and use of video effects including keyframing and motion effects.
- Play Acquiring & editing audio
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Learn about the acquisition and editing of audio including volume adjustment.
- Play Sweetening your sound & mixing audio
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Learn about the techniques used to sweeten and mix audio and fix some common problems.
- Play Managing your projects
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Learn about the basics of correct project management.
- Play Exporting frames, clips & sequences
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Learn about the export of various media from Premiere Pro including the use of the Adobe Media Encoder.
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe's popular graphics editing program, Photoshop is used for photo editing, image selection, realistic painting and more. It enables you to teach your students the latest photo editing techniques and graphic design principles, including how to apply Photoshop to digital art projects and presentations, as well as school newsletters, presentations and art classes.
Our Adobe Photoshop online tutorials cover a wide range of topics including: image formats; photo corrections; working with selections, layering, masks and channels; typography; vector drawing techniques; and preparing files for the web.
- Play Introduction to images
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Learn about the basics of digital imagery.
- Play Getting to know Photoshop
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Learn about the basics of the Photoshop interface including the use of window panels and docking methods.
- Play Basic photo corrections
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Learn about the basics of photo manipulation and correction including the clone stamp tool and content-aware fill.
- Play Working with basic selections
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During this session attendees will learn about the basics of making and working with selections.
- Play Layer basics
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Learn about the basics of Photoshop layers including layer styles and flattening and saving layers.
- Play Masks & channels
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Learn about the creation and use of masks and channels as well as using puppet warp.
- Play Type & typography
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Learn about the creation of type and text including warping and making paragraphs.
- Play Vector drawing techniques
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Learn about the techniques of working with vector shapes and the rules of how they work.
- Play Advanced layering
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Learn about advanced layering techniques including using layer styles and layer comps.
- Play Preparing files for the web
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Learn about the preparation of files for the web including slices and exporting to correct web formats.
Adobe Flash
Create rich and engaging multimedia content such as interactive maps and calendars to empower your students to communicate creative ideas and information interactively with Adobe Flash.
Our 8x45 minute Adobe Flash online tutorials have been designed to assist education professionals engage their students with interactive learning material using text, graphics, animation, video and sound. Learn how to: create and edit symbols; add graphics and animation; create interactive navigation; and publish a Flash document.
- Play Introduction to Flash
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Introduction to Flash and learn about basic functions and navigation of the Flash work area.
- Play Working with Graphics
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Learn about how to work with different types of graphics including shapes, patterns, curves and transparencies.
- Play Creating & Editing Symbols
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Learn about how to work with symbols. The session will include topics on how to create, edit and manage symbols.
- Play Adding Animation
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Learn about working with animation and how to apply animation to various items in a project file.
- Play Creating Interactive Navigation
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Gain a fundamental understanding of how interactivity works in Flash, how to set up the buttons and how to create the Action Script.
- Play Using Text
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Learn about how to work with text in Flash including how to add simple text and formatting text options.
- Play Working with sound & video
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Learn about how to add and use sound in a project file and how to work with video.
- Play Publishing Flash Documents
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Gain an understanding of publishing options and how to publish a movie for the web
Adobe Dreamweaver
Learn how to design, develop and deploy your own website with Adobe Dreamweaver. Perfect for education professionals who wish to equip their students with the fundamentals of website design and creation, Adobe Dreamweaver helps you build intuitive, attractive and user- friendly websites.
Our 12x45 minute Adobe Dreamweaver online tutorials include topics such as: HTML basics; creating page layouts; working with Flash, text, images, navigation and forms; and creating style sheets and publishing to the web.
- Play HTML basics
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Learn how to write basic HTML code and create HTML with Dreamweaver.
- Play Introduction to Dreamweaver
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Learn about the key features of the program interface.
- Play Adding Content to a Website
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Learn how to add content, control document structure, make lists, add horizontal rules, and special characters.
- Play CSS Cascading Style Sheets
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Learn about CSS terminology and how you can use CSS to standardise formatting of web pages.
- Play Advanced CSS
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Learn how to create and use class rules and advanced styles.
- Play Working with Images
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Learn about the different graphic types used in web pages and how to set them within your website.
- Play Working with Flash
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Learn how to create site templates and use it for creating pages.
- Play Working with Navigation
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Learn how to insert images into a web page using different methods.
- Play Create a Page Layout with CSS session
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Learn about using DIV tags and CSS to create a page layout.
- Play Using Templates
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Learn how to create site templates and use it for creating pages.
- Play Working with forms
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Learn how to create forms for a web page using a number of feature options.
- Play Publishing to the web
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Learn how to publish a website to the internet.
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is ideal for teachers, lecturers and other education professionals who wish to produce eye-catching artwork and content such as geometry and math tables or historical dates for the web, print or the Smartboard. It also helps students visually express and communicate their ideas through professional-looking illustrations, graphs, diagrams and logos.
With Adobe Illustrator online tutorials, learn how to: create and edit shapes; transform objects; draw with the pen and pencil tools; work with layers, blend colours and shapes; and work with brushes and applying effects.
- Play Introduction to Illustrator
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Learn about the Illustrator workspace including the set-up of window panels, zooming, art-boards and the creation of new workspaces.
- Play Selecting & aligning
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Learn about the basics of selecting and aligning as well as grouping and working in isolation mode.
- Play Creating & editing shapes
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Learn about the basics of shape creation and editing of shapes including the adjustment of strokes and fills.
- Play Transforming objects
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Learn about the transformation of objects and working more with artboards, scaling and adjusting objects and making transformations.
- Play Drawing with the pen & pencil tools
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Learn about the pen and pencil tools including drawing techniques and path adjustment.
- Play Colour & painting
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Learn about the techniques involved with colour and painting including swatches and the colour picker.
- Play Working with type
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Learn about the basics of working with type including threading text and using styles effectively.
- Play Working with layers
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Learn about the basics of layering in Illustrator including clipping masks and merging layers.
- Play Blending colours & shapes
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Learn about the basics of blending colours and gradients.
- Play Working with brushes
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Learn about the basics of working with brushes including the different types of brushes and their set up.
- Play Applying effects
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Learn about the basics of effects and how to apply them as well as working with 3D effects.
- Play Applying appearance attributes & graphic styles
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Learn about the use of appearance attributes and graphic styles.
- Play Working with symbols
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Learn about the basics of symbols including their creation, editing and usage.
Adobe InDesign
From single page newsletters and flyers to multi-page books and magazines, Adobe InDesign enables you to create professional publications for both print and the web.
If you teach visual communication and design subjects, or simply wish to incorporate high quality documents into your curriculum, our 12x45 minute Adobe InDesign online tutorials will show you how to: create compelling page layouts; publish desktop and digital documents; work with objects, colours and styles; and import, modify and export graphics.
- Play Getting started with InDesign
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Learn about key tools and navigation of the workspace.
- Play Getting to know InDesign
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Get an overview and knowledge of the key features of InDesign.
- Play Setting up documents & working with pages
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Introduction to setting up a multipage magazine article, learn how to customise document settings and configure document layouts.
- Play Working with objects
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Introduction to working with objects, learn how to work with layers and import and manipulate graphics and text.
- Play Flowing text
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Learn about the flowing text features and how to apply in different scenarios.
- Play Editing text
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Learn how to work with text including entering, editing and formatting.
- Play Working with typography
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Learn how to use InDesign typography tools to structure and control the set type to suit your content.
- Play Working with colour
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Learn how to create and apply colours.
- Play Working with styles
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Learn how to work with and apply styles to their content.
- Play Importing & modifying graphics
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Learn how to import, adjust and manage graphics.
- Play Creating tables in InDesign
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Learn how to work with tables including importing, creating and formatting tables.
- Play Outputting & exporting
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Learn how to prepare a document for printing and create a print present to automate the printing process.
pricing
ready2teach is designed to be cost effective and delivered direct. No travel, no back filling and no additional costs.
It's an annual subscription model, which means there's no expensive capital, just a one off investment for the year.
| Institution | A +GST |
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| Primary & Secondary Schools** | $3,995 |
| University Faculty or TAFE Institute*** | $24,995 |
| Site Wide University or TAFE | $POA |
| Site Wide Department of Education | $POA |
* Costs based on schools with 100 staff
** Per campus, for schools with up to 200 staff
*** Faculties or schools with up to 500 FTE
Your investment in ready2teach covers access for all employees for a period of 12 months.
frequently asked questions
- What is ready2teach?
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ready2teach is a live online mentored educational learning program for educators and school administrators that allows you to cost effectively up skill your team in bite size chunks. It is an ideal resource to help with the continual educational needs and professional development requirements in education. Our online live classes are designed for educators with beginner to intermediate product skills to help to apply the latest technologies in the classroom. We are starting with the most popular Adobe software used in both secondary and tertiary sectors. Our hands on live training sessions are ideal for collaboration and supported learning.
- How does ready2teach work?
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Once your annual subscription is complete you will be given access to our ready2teach online training rooms where you can attend as many online sessions as you like. View the Training Calendar to decide what sessions you would like to attend, and then login on the day to join the session. Our trainers will help you with the online training room to ensure you get the most out of the session. Don't worry if you miss a session of your favourite product - we will record it so you can view and listen to it again whenever you like.
- Who uses ready2teach?
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Our courses are designed for educators and administrators who:
- need the flexibility to upskill in bite size chunks;
- want to learn how to best utilise the software in their learning environment to stay in front;
- would like the opportunity to get access to various technologies in a manageable online delivery format with on-demand session recordings;
- like the thought of online training with the advantage of a live mentored sessions - and support of collaboration and Q&A sessions.
- How much does ready2teach cost?
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Up skill your team for less than $40 per head, per year... less than $1 per subject, per person.* ready2teach is designed to be cost effective and delivered direct - no travel, no back filling and no additional costs. It's an annual subscription model, which means there's no expensive capital, just a one off investment for the year.
Institution A +GST Primary & Secondary Schools** $3,995 University Faculty or TAFE Institute*** $24,995 Site Wide University or TAFE $POA Site Wide Department of Education $POA * Costs based on schools with 100 staff
** Per campus, for schools with up to 200 staff
*** Faculties or schools with up to 500 FTEYour investment in ready2teach covers access for all employees for a period of 12 months.
- Do you offer site wide solutions?
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Yes, we can work out a package to suit your needs. Talk to us about your requirements and we'll help you with a solution.
- Can you offer alternative or supplementary training solutions?
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We sure can. ready2teach has been developed by webqem - a specialist digital agency that provides online training solutions for teachers in tertiary and K12 sectors across Asia. We're an Authorised Adobe Training Centre too and our trainers are all certified by Adobe and have years of knowledge and skills.
- How do I access the seminars?
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Your school or departments administrator will provide you with the access required to attend the training sessions during your subscription period. Once you have this, logging into the training room is easy via the web address using the username and password provided.
- What if I miss a session?
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Each product session is scheduled at the same time and day each week so that you can plan in advance. If you miss a session you can simply view and listen to the recording of the session at any time or find the next session on the training calendar.
- Do you provide tracking/attendance reporting?
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ready2teach leverages Adobe Connect for running the online training sessions. We track who attends each live session and record attendees survey results. Information is grouped by institution and additional reports can be provided to administrators.
- Do you provide special pricing if we buy our Adobe licensing from you?
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webqem is an Adobe reseller and can help you with any of your Adobe licensing. We have a great introductory offer for those who register for ready2teach by the end of Feb 2012. We are offering $1,000 towards your term site licenses if purchased via webqem. You need to be quick though, as this offer is only valid till end of Feb 2012!
- Do you train topics outside Adobe?
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Initially we are providing training for popular Adobe products through the ready2teach program. Our aim is to bring additional products into the training program based on customer feedback and new technologies.
- How long do the sessions go for?
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Each session is 45 minutes in total so that you can attend a session during the day without interrupting your schedule too much. We also run sessions around lunch time and at the end of the day so this might suit you too. You probably should plan to join the session at least 5 minutes before the start time to get yourself set up, and allow for a few minutes at the end for questions and answer time.
our trainers
Our trainers not only have a passion for technology. They've also worked extensively in the education field
Many are teachers and trainers who understand the curriculum and how to apply the learning back in the classroom.
The training team at ready2teach are all Authorised Adobe trainers; with years of knowledge and skills to provide you the latest tips and tricks to get the most out of technology in the lecture theatre, classroom or in back office administration.
Randall Magro
Adobe Certified Expert with extensive experience with Adobe Creative Suite. His background is in design and IT. Randall has been a high school and adult educator for a number of years.
Aragon Heppel
Adobe Certified Instructor with over 10 years IT training experience across the Asia Pacific Region. Aragon specialises in Adobe's e-learning products.
about us
ready2teach has been developed by webqem - a specialist digital agency that provides online training solutions for teachers in tertiary and K12 sectors across Asia.
We pride ourselves in being at the forefront of technology and are passionate about enabling organisations and individuals to reach their full potential.
We help many organisations with their learning needs, strategically advising how to up-skill and enable their workforce cost effectively. We can work with you on a program of organisational change including super-user training, classroom training and mentored services. The training courses that we deliver vary from introduction modules through to advanced, and from short courses to tailored programs.
We know you have choices when it comes to choosing a training partner, but we think there are some compelling reasons why you should talk to us: We're an Authorised Adobe Training Centre. Our trainers are all authorised trainers, with years of knowledge and skills.
webqem is a design and development house with over 10 years track-record in using the latest Adobe technology. We apply our hard-earned experience to bring you practical tips and tricks that work in the real world.
We not only deliver the training in our training rooms and online, but we can come to you onsite. We train across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong.
We offer the best value courses in the market, and our courses include the appropriate text, assets and certificate of attendance.
We are an Adobe Authorised Training Centre and both Adobe Gold Solution Partner and Silver Channel Partner. This means we can not only look at your training needs but can help you procure the Adobe licenses at the best prices.
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