From Beginner to Master: InDesign

Program Overview

From Beginner to Master: InDesign

Overview

A series of InDesign courses, designed to take you from novice to master.

Key Details

• Location: Online

Course Overview

Our comprehensive series of InDesign courses are specifically designed to take you from a novice to an intermediate and advanced user.

These courses are structured to provide a comprehensive learning experience, starting from the absolute basics and progressing to an intermediate advanced level. Each course is modular and can be taken as a standalone class, allowing flexibility for learners based on their individual needs and prior knowledge.

For those who already have some knowledge of InDesign and wish to join in at the 'Beginners: The Next Step' or higher levels, we require the completion of a short questionnaire. This assessment will help ensure the course content is appropriate for your skill level and learning goals.

Course Details and Outline

Getting Started with InDesign

• Overview: If you’re new to Adobe InDesign, our Getting Started with Adobe InDesign course is a great first step into the world of design and layout creation.
• Course Details:
  • After attending the Getting started with Adobe InDesign course, attendees will have a solid understanding of InDesign's core features and tools, enabling them to create and format professional documents such as brochures, flyers, and magazines.
  • They will learn how to set up and edit documents, format text and images and apply colour to elements. Attendees will also gain the ability to export projects for both print and digital formats, equipping them with the skills needed to confidently design and produce high-quality visual content.
• Session One (3 hours):
  • Acknowledge what InDesign is and its capabilities
  • Confidently navigate the workspace
  • Locate and tweak essential settings
  • Construct a simple document
  • Make changes to your document and work with pages
  • Move objects about on a page
  • Save and revert documents
• Session Two (3 hours):
  • Populate a page with text
  • Apply text formatting
  • Identify and place correct image file formats
  • Resize an Image within a document
  • Apply colour and effects to elements within a document
  • View documents in various ways
  • Export an InDesign document for viewing and printing
• Eligibility or Prerequisites: We require you to be confident in using a computer.

Go Further with InDesign

• Overview: This course is intended for anyone who wants to expand their entry-level knowledge of Adobe InDesign by using more advanced features and tools.
• Course Details:
  • After attending the Go Further with Adobe InDesign course, participants will deepen their knowledge of working with InDesign. They will learn how to work further with documents, text, image and colour, equipping them to handle more sophisticated design projects and enhancing their creative output.
• Session One (3 hours):
  • Thread text between boxes
  • Convert text into an editable path
  • Wrap text around images and objects
  • Master advanced text formatting features using styles
  • Spot common typographical errors and correct these
• Session Two (3 hours):
  • Manage colours within a document
  • Check the resolution of an image within a document
  • Rotate and flip images in various ways
  • Manage images through the links panel
  • Create graphics with pathfinder tools
  • Sample a colour from an image to use
  • Add bleed to a document
• Eligibility or Prerequisites: We require the completion of a short questionnaire. This assessment will help ensure the course content is appropriate for your skill level and learning goals.

Propel Your InDesign Skills to the Next Level

• Overview: Enhance your InDesign skills even further with this course. Uncover essential tips, tricks and techniques for working with long documents and you will also discover how to create and work effectively with objects and tables inside the application.
• Course Details:
  • After attending the Propel Your InDesign Skills to the Next Level course, participants will have mastered more advanced techniques to optimise their design workflow and create polished, and professional looking layouts.
  • They will learn how to efficiently work with long documents, as well as incorporate elements like objects and tables within their layouts. By the end of the course, they will be equipped to tackle more demanding design projects with ease and creativity.
• Session One (3 hours):
  • Manage colours within their documents
  • Work with layers to organise elements within a document
  • Create and work with master pages
  • Add page numbering to pages to make navigation through a document easier
• Session Two (3 hours):
  • Group and align objects within a layout
  • Use Object styles to format objects for efficiency
  • Design professional tables with ease
  • Restyle tables with colours and text
  • Flow tables across multiple pages with repeating headers
• Eligibility or Prerequisites: We require the completion of a short questionnaire. This assessment will help ensure the course content is appropriate for your skill level and learning goals.

InDesign Mastery

• Overview: Take your InDesign knowledge and skills to the next level, explore the topic of interactivity within the application and learn how to create engaging interactive documents, then go on to discover how to preflight, archive and export your documents, picking up tips to speed up your workflow, along the way.
• Course Details:
  • After completing the InDesign Mastery course, participants will achieve a high level of proficiency in Adobe InDesign. They will master advanced features such as incorporating interactivity into a document and archiving, preflighting and exporting projects efficiently.
  • By the end of the course, they will be confident in their ability to push creative boundaries and handle any InDesign challenge with mastery.
• Session One (3 hours):
  • Design interactive documents
  • Create interactive document navigation
  • Add animations and multimedia elements to a layout
  • Create and add in hyperlinks
  • Build web and navigation links using buttons
  • Publish documents online and share content
• Session Two (3 hours):
  • Check and fix errors using a Preflight method
  • Create custom 'preflight' checks to ensure clean and reliable output
  • Package and archive documents
  • Add metadata file info into documents to protect them
• Eligibility or Prerequisites: We require the completion of a short questionnaire. This assessment will help ensure the course content is appropriate for your skill level and learning goals.

Upcoming Short Courses

• Short Course: Getting Started with Adobe InDesign | June 2025
• Short Course: Go further with InDesign | June 2025
• Short Course: Adobe InDesign: Propel your skills to the next level | June 2025
• Short Course: Master Indesign | June | 2025
• Short Course: Getting Started with Adobe InDesign | August 2025
• Short Course: Go further with InDesign | August 2025
• Short Course: Adobe InDesign | Propel your skills to the next level | August 2025
• Short Course: Master Indesign | August 2025

Course Details

What You'll Learn

This course provides the user with all the training required to be confident in using Adobe InDesign - the industry leading page design and layout tool, to create various documents, ranging from single page flyers, to more complex multi page brochures and presentations.

By taking this course, users will gain a good working knowledge of the InDesign programme.

How You'll Learn

Our online courses are delivered through Microsoft Teams, ensuring a seamless learning experience. Each session starts with a live broadcast from the tutor to introduce the topic and guide you through the resources.

Our courses include various learning methods such as videos, quizzes and exercises. The tutor remains available online for real-time support, making learning effective and enjoyable. Our blended teaching approach combines live and pre-recorded content, providing flexibility to learn at your own pace.

What to Expect

• Engaging content
• A variety of different ways to learn
• Clear guidelines to work through the practice exercises
• Constructive feedback from tutors on your submitted work
• Technical assistance from your tutors

Digital Badges

Digital badges are a great way to celebrate your achievements and stand out from the crowd, and are awarded to all learners who successfully complete a course and all associated learning activities.

So whether it's obtaining the skills needed to create a promotional video using Adobe Premiere Pro or the ability to successfully use formulae in Microsoft Excel.

Our digital short courses play a unique role in helping to upskill or re-skill to be more competitive in the job market. Sharing your digital badge on employability websites such as LinkedIn or on your CV can showcase your range of learning achievements to potential employers.

You will also attain a digital badge from Adobe or Microsoft when successfully completing the exams on our ACP & Microsoft Office Suite Certification Courses.

Explore Our Adobe Courses

• Illustrator ACP
• Premiere Pro ACP
• After Effects ACP
• InDesign ACP
• Photoshop ACP
• From Beginner to Master: After Effects
• From Beginner to Master: Photoshop
• From Beginner to Master: Premiere Pro
• From Beginner to Master: Illustrator

How to Apply

To apply for this course, make your selection from the available dates below, this will take you to an event page where you will be able to book yourself onto the course via the Book now link.

Fees, Costs & Funding

• Course name: Getting started with InDesign, Tuition fee: £150* per individual
• Course name: Go further with InDesign, Tuition fee: £150* per individual
• Course name: Propel your InDesign skills to the next level, Tuition fee: £150* per individual
• Course name: InDesign Mastery, Tuition fee: £150* per individual

If you're a student or staff different fees apply. Please visit our dedicated student and staff areas for specific information.

Course Requirements and Costs

• You will need access to a laptop/desktop computer (Mac/PC) with Adobe InDesign Installed.
• If you don't have an Adobe licence, a monthly or annual subscription may be available, or Adobe often offer free trials on their products.
• Please visit the Adobe.com website to find out more.