0222 - Introduction to Adobe Edge Animate

Course Description

Course Details For years, creating animated and interactive content on the Web has required learning complex tools and managing proprietary plug-ins. With Adobe Edge Animate, that has changed. Using this tool, designers can create engaging content and graphics quickly and easily, relying on widely-accepted Web standards and requiring a minimal amount of code. In this course, you'll explore the basics of this tool, including an introduction to the interface, the basics of animation, and how to create graphics and add interactivity. You'll also master more advanced concepts, such as how to integrate Edge Animate with other tools in the Adobe Creative Suite and publish content to the Web. Along the way, you'll build three projects from scratch: an animated Web banner ad, an interactive product catalog, and a photo gallery. By the end of the course, you'll be prepared to begin creating animation and interactive content for the Web and for mobile devices. How It Works This course is fully online, you require internet access and an email account. The course duration is 6 weeks, followed by a 2-week period to complete the final exam (online, open book). Lessons are released on Wednesdays and Fridays of each week, for a total of 12. You are not required to be online at any specific time. In addition to the specific lesson content, there is a discussion board with each lesson and often there is an optional assignment to apply the learning. Following each lesson, there is a short multiple choice quiz. Your score on these quizzes does not count towards the final mark but completing these helps solidify your learning as well as prepare you for the final exam. The final exam is an open-book, multiple choice exam and you need to achieve a minimum of 65% on the final exam to pass the course. There is only one opportunity to pass the exam. A certificate of completion from Ed2Go is available for printing immediately upon successful completion of the course and a certificate from the University of Waterloo will be emailed typically 1-2 weeks later. Many of the Ed2Go courses are eligible towards the various online certificates offered by WatSPEED. Requirements • Internet access • Email • One of the following browsers: o Mozilla Firefox o Microsoft Internet Explorer (9.0 or above) o Google Chrome o Safari • Adobe PDF plug-in (a free download obtained at Adobe.com .) Adobe Edge Animate 1.5 required; an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription (either paid or free); Microsoft Windows 7 or 8 or Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7 or 10.8. This course also uses Adobe Illustrator CS6 (Lesson 5) and Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 (Lesson 11). Trial versions of either software can be used for those lessons. Please do not download the software until Lesson 5 has been released for Illustrator and Lesson 11 has been released for Dreamweaver. Most trial versions are only accessible for a period of 30 days. Note: Adobe Edge Animate is only available via a Creative Cloud subscription. You will be given instructions in Lesson 1 to assist you with downloading and installing Edge Animate, as well as the process for signing up for a free Creative Cloud subscription.