Program Overview

Centre for Continuing Education

The Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sydney offers a diverse range of professional development short courses. These courses are designed to enhance career prospects and provide opportunities for personal growth.

Course Subjects

The Centre for Continuing Education offers courses in various subjects, including:

• Business and management
  • Business communication
  • Business strategy
  • Business writing
  • Cultural competence and diversity
  • Finance
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Organisational psychology
  • Sales and customer service
• English
• HSC preparation (years 10-12)
  • HSC biology
  • HSC business studies
  • HSC chemistry
  • HSC economics
  • HSC English
  • HSC mathematics
  • HSC physics
  • Year 11 (Revision)
  • Years 10-12 study and essay skills
• Humanities and culture
  • Creative writing
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
• Information technology
  • Adobe
  • AI and machine learning courses
  • Data analysis and analytics
  • Google
  • Microsoft
• Language
  • Arabic
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Chinese
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Spanish
• Marketing
  • Digital marketing
  • Marketing communications
  • Product development
• Project management
  • Agile methodology courses
  • Change management for projects
  • Stakeholder and people management
  • Technical project management skills

Course Details

Adobe InDesign Course: Level 2

This course takes you through various advanced aspects of Adobe InDesign, required to produce professional layouts and typography. Extend your knowledge beyond Adobe InDesign Course: Level 1 and take your skills to the next level.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Work with your Adobe account
• Use, modify, and create libraries
• Collaborate and work with others effectively
• Format text
• Apply formatting to various kinds of objects
• Work with styles
• Use, create, and modify tables
• Create and insert a table of contents and an index
• Create a simple e-publication
• Work with and understand alternate layouts

Content

The course covers the following topics:

• The Adobe Account
• Libraries
• Working collaboratively
• Paragraph formatting
• Formatting objects
• Working with Styles
• Working with tables
• Long documents
• Creating a simple e-publication
• Alternate layouts

Intended Audience

This course is suitable for anyone wanting to advance their understanding of design and graphic production to create layouts for print media.

Prerequisites

Prior to attending, you should have completed Adobe InDesign Course: Level 1 or have equivalent knowledge.

Delivery Modes

The course is available in the following delivery modes:

• Face-to-face, presenter-taught training using your own device
• Online training via the platform Zoom

Materials

Course materials are provided electronically using Dropbox.

Before the Course

You will need an Adobe Creative Cloud account to participate. If you don't have an existing account, you can purchase an Adobe Creative Cloud account.

Meet the Facilitators

The course is taught by experienced facilitators, including:

• Xavier Beau-Davis
• Antony Brown

What Others Say

Previous participants have praised the course, saying:

• So much information in a short amount of time, so the day goes so quickly! Very enjoyable and informative course.
• We had a great tutor - very patient and descriptive. I would definitely recommend this course to others.
• Great equipment, knowledgeable presenter, and comprehensive course notes.

Related Courses

Related courses include:

• Adobe Illustrator Course: Level 2
• Adobe InDesign Course: Level 1
• Adobe Photoshop Course: Level 1
• Adobe Premiere Pro Course: Level 1
• Canva Course: Introduction

Organisational Training

The Centre for Continuing Education also offers organisational training and development, designed for workplace needs. For groups of six or more, courses can be delivered to your team with the option to tailor content.