Showing posts with label training. Show all posts
Showing posts with label training. Show all posts

Thursday, October 21, 2010

It’s Time to Get Some Training! (Part Deux)

You may remember that last month, we talked about what to do when you needed to sign up for training. We’re pleased to announce that the new self-paced courses have been released both to the Pearson People Development Network, as well as into our Pegasus system (for external users such as authors or vendor contacts).

The courses have been revamped, rebuilt, and are more focused on specific skills used within WriteRAP. There are six new courses:

Getting Started – Getting Started focuses on logging in and out of WriteRAP and changing and recovering passwords.

Document Management – Document Management focuses on finding projects and documents, previewing documents, and uploading and downloading documents.

Toolbar Basics – Toolbar Basics focuses on opening a WriteRAP document and the toolbar, applying and removing character formatting, working with basic formatting, and applying and removing styles.

Boilerplates – Boilerplates focuses on downloading and opening the Boilerplates Library, inserting and editing boilerplates, working with common boilerplates, and cleaning up styles.

Basic Pagination – Basic Pagination focuses on repositioning boilerplates, resizing and deleting boilerplates, and breaks.

Advanced Pagination – Advanced Pagination focuses on finalizing pagination and the WriteRAP Library.

These courses are all self-paced, and include self-paced modules, job aids, a lab, and an assessment.

If you’ve already taken some training and are just looking for a little remediation, these course can provide that. You can also visit the CMS Website and peruse the Job Aids, which cover sets of skills for each course and can help you brush up on specific things as opposed to re-taking an entire training course.

Pearson People Development Network

Thursday, September 9, 2010

It’s Time to Get Some Training!

As we near the release of our full suite of revised training courses, it seems like a good time to review the various training paths for WriteRAP users, both internal and external.

The first, and most important, step in setting up WriteRAP training is to identify some of the basic information about your training needs. You can do this by answering the following questions:

  • How many users—both authors and business unit team members—will need training?
  • Is this training for a particular project? If so, what is the project name? Is the project staged in WriteRAP already with at least one chapter uploaded?
  • What “tier” is the template?
  • Have the people who will be attending this customized course taken any WriteRAP training? If so, which courses?
  • Have the people who will be attending training been using WriteRAP?
  • Are the trainees Mac or PC users? A combination?
  • Will the trainees attending training be hands-on users of WriteRAP, or are they taking the customized course for more informational purposes?

    Once a list of training recipients is identified, the second step is to identify the skills needed for training. What does that mean? The courses being offered focus on specific skills-sets needed for working with WriteRAP. You can use the following list to determine what your project’s training needs are.

    The courses, and the skills they cover, look like this:

    Course: Getting Started
    * Login. Log out
    * Change/Recover Password
    Course: Document Management
    * Find Projects/Documents
    * Preview Documents
    * Download Documents
    * Upload Documents
    Course: Toolbar Basics
    * Open a WR Document and WriteRAP Toolbar
    * Apply/Remove Character Formatting
    * Apply/Remove Styles
    * Work with Basic Formatting
    Course: Boilerplates
    * Download/Open Boilerplates Library
    * Insert and Edit Boilerplates
    * Work with Common Boilerplates
    * Clean Up Styles
    Course: Basic Pagination
    * Reposition Boilerplates
    * Remove/Resize Boilerplates
    * Breaks (Convert section and Split/slash
    Course: Advanced Pagination
    * Direct to Print PDF
    * Inserting Images

    Once you have all of this information targeted, fill out a request for training by visiting the CMS Website here, and you will be contacted about setting up your training.

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