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Jumpstart Your Training Program!

IT Training & Education sells its award-winning training materials at low cost to other educational and non-profit institutions to use in their training programs. We offer low pricing and generous licensing terms. Our sales policy also allows you to choose the materials format that best suits the needs of your institution.

Our materials sales program includes the following:

• Award-winning materials available as editable files or as PDFs.
• You can purchase materials in bundles related to a topic or you can build your own customized bundle by selecting the workshops you want. All purchases include the exercise and support files needed for workshop delivery.
• Updated and new materials released bi-annually.
• A sales policy that let you keep the materials you purchase in perpetuity, and renew your selections at a significant discount.

Following the links above will give you details about our program. Consult our FAQ for additional information. You can also review samples of our workshop materials.

Placing an Order

To place an order, sign the FrameMaker License Agreement or PDF License Agreement as appropriate, then submit it along with a completed Order Form.

Do you still have questions about our program? Then contact us!

Award-Winning Materials

IT Training & Education’s instructor-led hands-on workshop training materials have won many national and international awards over the last 15 years. Most recently, our workshop materials received awards in the Printed Instructional Classroom Materials category of the following ACM SIGUCCS Competitions for Higher Ed Publications:

• 2003 - first, second and third place
• 2005 - second place
• 2006 - second and third place

We are proud to include many of these winning entries in the bundles available for you!

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Available Formats

We’ve organized our current workshop offerings into various bundles as shown below. Each bundle is available in two different formats: Adobe FrameMaker (7.0) and Adobe PDF (Acrobat 5.0). A description of each bundle format and general terms of use are outlined below.

FrameMaker Format

The FrameMaker versions of materials are intended for institutions and organizations that want to customize or edit the materials for their own purposes. The materials are produced in FrameMaker 7.0 and can be altered on a Windows PC or a Macintosh.

For further information about rights and restrictions, consult our FrameMaker License Agreement. To purchase materials in this format, submit an Order Form, along with a signed copy of the Framemaker License Agreement.

Includes:

• FrameMaker files for each workshop
• All related sample files (sometimes includes samples of finished projects)
• All related exercise files (includes files kept in an exercise folder for workshop)
• All related support files (includes accompanying Web pages or presentation materials)
• A copy of all files inserted or linked with the FrameMaker files
• Documentation outlining the structure of the FrameMaker book files and the use of inserts
• A copy of the Edufont font file for displaying special characters
• A keyboard map for the Edufont font characters

Adobe PDF Format

These bundles are designed for institutions that do not have the need to customize the materials. These files can be printed using Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher. You can download and install Adobe Reader for free from Adobe’s Web site. The PDF files are locked, so they can be printed but cannot be edited electronically. For further information about rights and restrictions, consult our PDF License Agreement. To purchase materials in this format, submit an Order Form, along with a signed copy of the PDF License Agreement.

Includes:

• PDF files for each workshop
• All related sample files (sometimes includes samples of finished projects)
• All related exercise files (includes files kept in an exercise folder for workshop)
• All related support files (includes accompanying Web pages or presentation materials)

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Description of Available Bundles

The following table lists the bundles we currently sell and the workshops associated with each bundle. All workshops are written primarily for a Windows environment, though many workshops are compatible with and have instructions for MacOS users. Most of these workshops are intended to be three hours long.

Full descriptions of content covered in each workshop are available on our Workshop Descriptions page. You can also review samples of our workshop materials. For further information about application version numbers, MacOS compatibility and special environmental set-up issues, view our Tech Notes.

All Microsoft Office workshops are designed for Office 2003 (and Office 2004, where applicable).

* Indicates a tri-fold or short set of standard format materials used to provide information in several different workshops.

**This is a short workshop and can be taught in 1 or 1.5 hours. Materials follow our standard format.

Build Your Own Custom Bundle!

You can now also build your own customized bundle by selecting any 3 workshop titles that you want from the list above and combining them into your own single bundle. Customized bundles are available in Adobe FrameMaker format (3 workshops for $1,000) or in PDF format (3 workshops for $700). If you would like to purchase more than 3 selected workshops, contact us.

Ordering Workshop Materials

To place an order, sign the FrameMaker License Agreement or PDF License Agreement as appropriate, then submit it along with a completed Order Form.

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What’s New and Updated?

All of our Macromedia workshops have been updated to reflect the use of Macromedia Suite 8 applications.

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Sales Policy

The following information summarizes how our sales and distribution model works.

Distribution Model

The materials are distributed on CDs on a biannual basis, with release dates typically scheduled for June and December.

Incentive Program

Under our sales policy, you buy a bundle or bundles once. Thereafter, you will receive biannual notices outlining changes that have been made to all of the bundles. If you find that the offerings in a bundle have changed significantly and you want to acquire the updated materials, you can repurchase the same bundle at one-half the current price anytime within the next calendar year. For example, if an institution buys a particular bundle in June 2007 for $700, they can buy the same bundle, with any revisions or new workshops, anytime before July 1, 2008 for one-half of that bundle’s selling price at the time the new order is placed. However, if you wait until September 2008 to order that same bundle, you will purchase it at full price.

Technical Support

We will provide the support you may need to understand the electronic organization of our materials, and will be glad to discuss how we use the materials in our own setting. However, we do not provide technical support for the use of FrameMaker or Adobe Acrobat, and we do not provide technical support for setting up your own teaching environment. We will replace any defective files if necessary.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Is it possible to get the materials in Microsoft Word format?

   Unfortunately, no. Our materials include many graphics to illustrate examples and clarify the use of various applications. We also have many variables, cross-references and inserted documents in our FrameMaker files, to ease revision. We use FrameMaker because it is the best available tool for our publishing needs. Though FrameMaker claims to be able to “convert” documents into Word format, this feature does not function well and the integrity of the materials is compromised. Conversion is unsuccessful due to the number of graphics, the complexity and length of our materials, and limitations in Word. If you are not able to use FrameMaker to revise our materials, we recommend you purchase the PDF bundle.

2. Are the workshops compatible with the Macintosh platform?

   Though our workshops at Indiana University are taught almost exclusively in a Windows environment, many of our workshops have been tested in a MacOS X environment and most workshops in the Web series, as well as Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and Pagemaker, have notes for MacOS users. The majority of the Microsoft Office applications (except for Access and Outlook), are available for the MacOS, but some of our Office workshops are not currently compatible because of differences Microsoft implemented in Office 2003 and Office 2004. For more information about MacOS compatibility, view our Tech Notes.

3. Can all of these workshops be taught “right out of the box”?

   Most of our workshops are “self-contained” in that they only need the exercise files provided with the materials; other workshops, especially Web workshops, require the availability of accounts for participants and/or the availability of associated Web resources. Though most Web sites remain up-to-date on our server, we recommend you publish workshop Web pages at your home institution. We cannot guarantee that the needed sites will remain “live” or unchanged on our server or that our server will be available. In addition, some workshops do require more specific support. For example, the Outlook workshops are written assuming that participants have access to either their own or demonstration accounts. For further information regarding specific requirements for workshops, see our Tech Notes.

4. Are there restrictions concerning how we distribute copies of these materials?

   These materials are provided at a low cost for non-profit or educational institutions so that individuals can receive high-quality training that may otherwise be out of their reach. Therefore, these materials may be delivered only to members of your institution free of charge or for the cost of reproduction and handling. They may not be sold or delivered for profit, or made accessible on an open Web server. For further information, please consult the appropriate license agreement — PDF License Agreement or FrameMaker License Agreement.

5. Is there technical support available?

   We do not provide technical support for conducting workshops or for the creation of a teaching environment. For more information, see our support policy.

6. Are any other materials purchasing options available?

   Individual printed copies of our materials can be purchased directly from our Web site for self-study purposes only. Materials purchased in this way are not to be used for classroom instruction. To find out more about self-study materials, visit our Materials & Exercise Files page.

7. Who do I contact if I have questions?

   Questions and concerns should be addressed to:
   Materials and Production Coordinator
   IT Training & Education
   ematerials@indiana.edu

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