COSIMA training
To get started in the world of COSIMA, you will learn the tools of the trade that every COSIMA editor should master during the basic training phase. After a thorough introductory training course COSIMA go! Getting started, you will learn new helpful tools and functions in the advanced training course COSIMA go! Advanced.
In our 7-day practical workshop, you will learn about the diverse tasks and possibilities of content management and apply them in practice.
COSIMA go! Getting started
Your benefit
Learn the basics of our XML editing system in the comprehensive online training course COSIMA go! Getting started and consolidate your basic knowledge of our XML editing system with numerous exercises on a demo system. You can then get straight to work!
Target group
Beginners without COSIMA knowledge (prospective COSIMA editors with and without XML experience)
COSIMA go! Advanced
Your benefit
The online training course COSIMA go! Advanced online training course, editors who have already been working with COSIMA for some time or have comparable prerequisites can deepen their knowledge to make their work with COSIMA more efficient.
Target group
Technical editors who want to practise designing and creating modular technical information with COSIMA.
Seminar/Online-Workshop - COSIMA editing system - 7 days of practice
As digitalization progresses, technical information is increasingly being created on a modular basis in content management systems such as COSIMA. In this practical week, you will learn about the diverse tasks and possibilities of content management and then apply them in practice. You will practice creating structures, modularizing and classifying content, publishing documents and much more in COSIMA.
Your benefit
- You will receive 2 seminar days of training in COSIMA so that you can create, edit, compile and publish modular content.
- In the subsequent 5-day online workshop, you will apply your knowledge in practice using practical examples: You will design and create several variants of instructions directly in COSIMA. During this time, you can ask questions at any time, which will be answered once a day.
- In an editorial system such as COSIMA, content is typically created by different authors. All participating persons form an editorial team in which each individual takes on a specific task. You will learn how important it is to coordinate with the team when working in the editorial system.
- All open points are clarified in a final meeting.
Target group
COSIMA users who have completed the COSIMA go! Getting started training or have comparable knowledge.
Contents
- Introduction
- Work interface and data organization
- Create text content (paragraphs, lists, calls to action, tables, warnings) with the Word and XMetaL editors
- Create and manage structures (projects)
- Working with graphics and callouts
- Find content
- Working with metadata (classification and variant filters)
- Versioning (releases)
- Production
- Independent conception and creation of content in COSIMA
