Publisher II - Student Guides by Topic

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 Objectives

After completing this lesson you should be able to:

• Describe the Student Guide build process
• Build an Instructor Guide by Topic
• Customize a Guide – Advanced Features
• Create a PDF of the Guide

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 Agenda

• Courseware Hierarchy Review

• Overview
• How Publisher Builds A Student Guide From
Courseware Files
• Customize A Student Guide
• Create A PDF Of The Student Guide
• Summary

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 Tutor Process Overview: Student Guides

Inputs Tools Outputs

ModelDocuments
Model Documents
PP
Process Documents Reports
Reports
AA UU
UU BB
LL DeskManual
Desk Manual
TT
II
Application Help HH
SS OwnerManual
Owner Manual
OO HH
RR EE StudentGuide
Student Guide
Courseware RR

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 Hierarchy Of A Student Guide

Curriculum [CU*.doc]
Education Overviews/Abstracts [ED*.doc]
Guided Demos [LA*.doc] – optional
Practices & Solutions [LA*.doc] – optional
Navigations [NA*.doc] – optional
Process Documents
Procedure [PR*.doc] – optional (flowcharts only)

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 Overview Of Student Guide Build Process

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 How Publisher Builds A Guide - 1

Read the Curriculum document to find and verify the

designated Education Overviews.

ED
CUR
ED

ED

ED

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 How Publisher Builds A Guide - 2

Expand every Education Overview with LAB, NAV, or

PRO flowchart content at the designated ‘Refer to’
point.
LAB mo
De
ED
LAB mo
De
ED

LAB mo
ED De

ED
LAB mo
De

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 How Publisher Builds A Guide - 3

Save the expanded Education Overviews with the

appropriate chapter number.

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 How Publisher Builds A Guide - 4

Create and save a Table of Contents file.

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 Demo: Create Instructor Guide

1. Verify configuration options

2. Publish courseware files
3. Build index
4. Build Instructor guide

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 Verify Publisher Configuration Options

Select Double Sided

Paper option BEFORE
creating the student
Guide

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 Publish And Build An Index

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 Create And Save Guide

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 Confirm Create And Save Guide

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 View The Guide

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 Demo: Customize A Guide

1. Add custom Preface and Copyright information to

the guide
2. Update the Cover Page
3. Add or delete content from chapters
4. Update the Table of Contents
5. Create a PDF version of the Guide
6. Optional – Print a Word version of the guide

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 Add Customized Copyright And Preface
Information

• Move the customized files to the Student Guide

folder
• Build the guide (no need to build the index)

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 Update The Cover Page

Standard Oracle University Cover Page details

• Course Code
• Edition number: 1.0 for all first time manuals
• Month Year
• Part Number

oracle.bmp

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 Add Or Delete Content From Chapters

• If you need to make corrections or permanent

content changes to any of the content, make the
changes to the source document and rebuild the
student guide.
• One-time or temporary changes can be made to
individual chapters. If it is a one-time change and
affects the pagination, you can update the Table of
Contents to reflect the temporary change.

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 Update Table Of Contents In A Guide

• Open the file containing the Table of Contents.

– You need to be in the table of contents document in
order to run the update utility.
• Run the utility to update the table of contents.
N > Tutor Author > Author > Update
Table of Contents
– Author automatically updates the table of contents
to reflect the revised student guide.
• Save the table of contents file.
• Do not change the filename.

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 Create A PDF Version Of The Guide

• Open the Table of Contents in Word

• Click on the PDF button on the Author tool bar

DO NOT click
on the Acrobat
ICON button

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 View The PDF Instructor Guide

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 Print A Word Version Of The Guide

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 Quick Quiz

1. Student Guides can be delivered in what file

format?
2. What sections are dropped while building a Student
Guide?
3. Once a Student Guide has been generated, can
changes be made to the student guide?
4. Can you view and print your Student Guide in
Publisher?

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 Practice: Create An Instructor Guide

• Publish courseware files

• Build an index
• Create an Instructor Guide
– Use the CUR file you created in a prior practice
• Open the newly created Instructor Guide
– Open the Table of Contents file
• Create a PDF version

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 Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to:

• Describe the Student Guide build process
• Build an Instructor Guide by Topic
• Customize a Guide – Advanced Features
• Create a PDF of the Guide

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