Sydney Community College

This 6-hour Word Essentials program will teach students the foundational skills to successfully work with Microsoft Word. The program covers a wide range of Word concepts, including document creation, view types, working with text, how to cut, copy, and paste, formatting paragraphs, creating and modifying tables, using mail merge, printing a document, creating high-quality document designs, and more.

This 12-hour Photoshop program will teach students the foundational skills to successfully work with Adobe’s digital imaging software. The program covers a wide range of Photoshop tools and concepts, including an introduction to the Photoshop working environment, determining resolution and graphic content, working with selections and layers, exploring image modes and making color adjustments, saving images for web and print, and more.

This introductory Adobe Lightroom course will teach students the foundational skills to successfully work with Adobe’s image manipulation and editing software. The program covers a wide range of Lightroom tools and concepts, including an introduction to the Lightroom working environment, the Lightroom catalog, importing and exporting image files, global image processing, the histogram, working with color, local and specific editing procedures, targeted adjustments, and more.

This introductory 12-hour Adobe Premiere Pro course will teach students the foundational skills to successfully work with Adobe’s dynamic video editing software. The program covers a wide range of Premiere Pro tools and concepts, including an introduction to the Premiere Pro working environment, using the interface, editing in the timeline, adding titles, working with and editing audio, how to use various video effects, finalizing and exporting projects, and more.

This 18-hour Adobe After Effects course will teach students the fundamentals of working with Adobe’s dynamic motion graphics and visual effects software. The program covers a range of After Effects tools and concepts, including an introduction to the interface and various layer operations, the various aspects of the composition workflow, masking with shape and text layers, and more.

This 1-day Accessible Documents course was built to teach proficient InDesign users how to create accessible PDFs using Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat. The course a range of InDesign and Acrobat concepts and tools, including an introduction to PDFs and why accessibility matters, various design considerations, best practices for generating an accessible PDF, and how to make an already existing PDF file more accessible.

This 6-hour Microsoft PowerPoint course will teach students the fundamental skills needed to work with Microsoft’s dynamic presentation software. The program covers a range of PowerPoint tools and topics, including how to create a new presentation, working with presentations, inserting text and images into slides, using various slide layouts, incorporating SmartArt graphics, drawing and editing shapes, PowerPoint slide navigation best practices, various printing techniques, creating compelling presentations, and more.

This introductory Adobe Illustrator course aims to teach students the skills they need to successfully work with Adobe’s dynamic vector graphic software. The course covers a range of beginner Illustrator tools and concepts, including working with menus, layers, the tools palette, file formats, the pen tool, image tracing, drawing and editing paths, using rulers and guides, working with color and type, and more.

This 12-hour introductory InDesign course aims to teach students new to InDesign the skills they need to successfully work with three of Adobe’s layout and page design software. The course covers a range of beginner InDesign tools and concepts, including how to work with the interface, setting up a document, page palettes, working with layers and image files, text formatting and font usage, working with color, creating and working with tables and style sheets, printing best practices, and more.

This 13-hour WordPress training course teaches students new to WordPress how to successfully create a responsive website. The course covers a range of WordPress beginner tools and concepts, including an introduction to WordPress and an overview of the platforms and terminology, a comprehensive look at the WordPress dashboard, how to work with and understand plugins, choosing and installing themes, integrating Google Analytics, debugging tips, and more.