FrameMaker Course Contents & Workings

Course Contents

In this course, you learn how to use FrameMaker for basic formatting; use and modify FrameMaker styles (tags), templates and master pages; automate chapter, figure, table, and page numbering; create and build fully functional standard hardcopy books. Users of FrameMaker will also have the ability to:

• use basic tasks such as creating and saving files, making text italics or bold, changing fonts, changing tabs and margins, applying standard styles (tags) (such as for headings or numbered lists)
• apply styles (tags) and modify them as necessary
• use existing styles (tags) to format text so that it looks exactly like a PDF document (developed originally in FrameMaker)
• create common types of tables
• apply templates and master pages, and create your own
• use graphics and unformatted text supplied by your instructor to create a well-designed technical document using styles (tags) that you have created
• create and incorporate graphics into FrameMaker documents (with anchored frames); create simple drawings in FrameMaker
• document a simple computer hardware or software task using FrameMaker styles (tags) that you have designed
• create various styles of cross-references—both within the same document and between documents
• automate any numbering stream in a FrameMaker book; enable versions of the same documents, and create variables for rapid updating
• use reference pages to store frequently used graphics that must be positioned consistently throughout a document, to hold boilerplate material or clip art that you can copy and paste on body pages (for example, symbols for cautions and notes), and to maintain hypertext commands, formatting information for generated lists and indexes, definitions of custom math elements, and mappings for converting to XML and HTML
• "build" books using FrameMaker: bring multiple documents into a book structure and automate tables of contents, cross-references, indexes, and numbering streams

You use videos and transcripts of those videos to learn these tasks, e-mail your instructor when you have questions, and send your work to the instructor for review.

Course Workings

1. Once we receive your payment for this course, we send you a link in which you select a start date. Your schedule is then set up for you with due dates starting 3 days from receipt of your payment.
2. For each unit:
   1. you do some reading, watch some videos to learn concepts and procedures for that unit. (You can skip units for whatever reason, but if you need a recommendation, your instructor will mention the units you actually completed.)
   2. you then practice the concepts and procedures of that unit. The videos show you step by step how to do the practice work for that unit.
   3. you send the FrameMaker practice work to your instructor, who reviews and comments, and if necessary, explains revisions needed. You repeat the revision–review cycle until your instructor signs off. (You can choose not to revise; no problem.)
3. Toward the end of the course, you build a complete, standard book in FrameMaker and revise as necessary.
4. Optionally, you can create your own book project in FrameMaker and revise as necessary.

If you use the Adobe FrameMaker 30-day trial, you can work ahead to complete the course within the 30 days. Let your instructor know.

Grades

You can have your performance in this course evaluated in one of two ways:

Letter grades:

• A: All studies and projects completed and approved by your instructor.
• B: All studies and projects completed and approved by your instructor except for the final project.
• C: All studies and projects completed and approved by your instructor, except for the final project and the formatting project.
  
• No grade of D swill be awarded.
  
• F: Anything less than the above.
  

Pass–fail:

• Pass: All studies and projects completed and approved by your instructor.
• Pass: All studies and projects completed and approved by your instructor except for the final project.
• Pass: All studies and projects completed and approved by your instructor, except for the final project and the formatting project.
  
• Fail: Anything less than the above.
  

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