Editor Training

We offer two courses aimed at content contributors. These being:

Standard Editor: 1 day

 

Who Should Attend

This course is ideally suited to all individuals involved in the daily editing and content contribution process of a website or intranet. The course is a non-technical course to ease attendees into the Immediacy CMS editing environment. The course is designed to provide attendees with a good foundation of the Immediacy CMS and features hands-on practical sessions so that you can quickly get to grips with the software.

 

Course Prerequisites

Familiarity with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Word is preferential although all attendees must need to be able to operate a mouse and keyboard.

 

Aims and Objectives

By the end of this course attendees will cover:

  • Working with Tables
  • Creating links to websites, pages and documents/files
  • Automatically create page content by importing Word & Excel documents
  • Modify Page Properties
  • Perform an Accessibility Check on web pages
  • Create a Site Map
  • Share content from one page to another
  • Create a list of scrolling news 
  • Submit & Approve web pages

 

The course is heavily workshop based with delegates learning by completing a series of activities designed to emulate tasks typical of a content contributor’s role.

 

The course is an essential foundation and is recommended to all attendees wishing to progress on to more challenging courses. 

 

Advanced CMS courses including:

 

Download Course Overview in PDF Format

 

Advanced Editor: 1 day

 

Who Should Attend

This course is ideally suited to all individuals whose responsibilities include:

  • Overseeing and approving the work of other web editors
  • Determining and designing the layout of content within editable areas
  • Using Editor based plug-ins to add dynamism to web page content.

 

The course is designed to enable attendees to fully exploit the functionality of the Immediacy CMS editing environment to build exciting pages that are both usable and accessible.

 

Course Prerequisites

Attendance of Immediacy CMS Editor course

 

Aims and Objectives

By the end of this course attendees will cover:

  • Approving pages when approval workflow & website accessibility is implemented
  • Usability, Accessibility & SEO Fundamentals
  • Using link pages to enhance usability
  • Displaying the links to child pages of any section on the website
  • Categorising pages
  • Setting up a list of news pages
  • Setting up a scrolling news list
  • Allowing website visitors to subscribe to web pages
  • Adding Audio, Video and Flash files to web pages
  • Showing web pages from another website within web pages content

 

This course is heavily workshop based with delegates learning by completing a series of activities typical of those undertaken by a Senior, or Managing Editor. The course finishes with a comprehensive workshop that includes key methods and practices covered during both the Standard and Advanced Editor courses.

 

Download Course Overview in PDF Format

 

Training bookings

To reserve a place on a training course please complete the below form:

 

Course Registration Form

 

Once completed please email this to Alterian Training Services: 

 

trainingadmin@alterian.com

 

Alterian requires a company purchase order before we can confirm your place on the course. 

 

Unless otherwise stated courses are 1 day in duration (approximately 09:30 – 16:00).

 

For further information, please call (01635) 262000 or email trainingadmin@alterian.com