SDL Trados Studio 2019 Advanced

Formats: Online training
Topics: Trados Training & Certification
Approved for ATA CE points
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Start time:Jan 16, 2019 15:00 GMT     Add to calendar

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This course is approved for three (3) American Translators Association Continuing Education points.



This course is delivered live and web based, over 3 hours. Purchase of SDL Trados software is not necessary to take this training. The software features will be presented via the trainer’s machine. Exams, as well as training manual and materials for each level, are included when you purchase this training session. Note: three hour online sessions on SDL Trados are not recorded.

Important: Certification exams will be available in your SDL My account approximately 10 working days after making a payment.

Note that you must be registered and have an account at SDL to receive the certification exams and materials. If you do not have an account with SDL, you can create one here https://oos.sdl.com/asp/products/ssl/account/.

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Language:English
Duration:180 minutes
SDL Trados Studio 2019 Advanced
Learning Objectives:

This course is designed for users who are already familiar with SDL Trados Studio, and want to leverage the advanced product features to work even more efficiently and streamline their processes further.

- translation memory maintenance – keeping your TM resources lean and efficient
- localization of XML content
- customized automatic quality assurance rules
- enhanced workflows for different file types: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, InDesign


Target Audience:

This course is designed for:

- translators who have already attended either the SDL Trados Studio Getting Started Part 1 and Part 2 or Intermediate courses
- project managers who have already attended the SDL Trados Studio for Project Managers Part 1 and Part 2 courses

Prerequisites:

An understanding of the following functionality which may have been gained through training or by experience working with SDL Trados Studio

- views and user profiles - how to create a new translation memory
- how to increase translation speeds when translating MS Word documents using the extensive range of new features
- translating multiple files (MS Word and MS PowerPoint)
- quality assurance (QA checker)
- AutoSuggest™

SDL Trados Certification:

This course provides all of the knowledge attendees need to pass their SDL Trados Studio Advanced exam

The SDL Certification program enables individual translators and project managers to validate their knowledge and expertise in the use of SDL Trados products. Achieving SDL Certification demonstrates that you are fully prepared to work with the world’s leading translation technology.

Advanced level SDL Certification in the SDL Trados Studio product can be achieved by taking the following web based exams:

- SDL Trados Studio Advanced

The exam questions are based on the topics covered in the corresponding SDL Trados Studio Advanced course. Attendance on this course followed by practical experience of the topics covered will prepare attendees to take the exam.

The exam consists of 40 questions and lasts 40 minutes. Attendees take their exams by logging into their SDL Account and selecting Education area, where their exams and corresponding training manuals can be found. Attendees will be advised on completion of their exam whether they have passed or need to retake.

Attendees will be advised on completion of their exam whether they have passed or need to retake.


Further Development:

At the end of this course attendees will have covered all of the topics necessary to significantly increase translation speeds and productivity.

Attendees should also consider attending the SDL MultiTerm course, which will teach you the key functionality of SDL MultiTerm.

See upcoming courses here.

Further Information:

For further information on any of our courses, training delivery options and course dates, the SDL Trados Certification programme or course fees please contact us

Target audience
This course is designed for:

- translators who have already attended either the SDL Trados Studio Getting Started Part 1 and Part 2 or Intermediate courses
- project managers who have already attended the SDL Trados Studio for Project Managers Part 1 and Part 2 courses
Prerequisites
An understanding of the following functionality which may have been gained through training or by experience working with SDL Trados Studio

- views and user profiles - how to create a new translation memory
- how to increase translation speeds when translating MS Word documents using the extensive range of new features
- translating multiple files (MS Word and MS PowerPoint)
- quality assurance (QA checker)
- AutoSuggest™
Topics covered during the course: (click to expand)
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Maintaining Translation Memories
  • Editing / deleting TUs
  • Searching for TUs with particular source/target string
  • Finding and replacing an outdated term in the TM
  • Keeping your TM lean and efficient e.g.
  • Exporting and importing TM

TM Language Resources
  • What are TM language resources?
  • Optimizing the segmentation by adding custom abbreviations
  • Enhancing the translation process and match rates by adding e.g. product names, custom designations etc. to the TM

Adding meta information to TMs through fields
  • What are TM fields?
  • Defining TM fields
  • Adding TM field values during translation
  • Filtering for TUs based on fields (e.g. all TUs that relate to a particular subject)
  • Enhancing the reliability of TM matches through penalties

Options for fine-tuning the TM Search
  • Optimizing your XML workflows through a custom XML file type definition
  • Translating XML
  • Previewing XML: In-context preview during and after translation

Taking your quality assurance to the next level
  • Defining your own quality assurance rules through regular expressions
  • What are regular expressions?
  • Defining your own quality assurance rules based on regular expressions
  • More effective display filtering through regular expressions
  • Regular expressions in find and replace operations

Fine-tuning your localization processes through file type options
  • MS Word (DOCX)
  • MS PowerPoint (PPTX)
  • MS Excel (XLSX)
  • Desktop Publishing (Adobe InDesign)

Pseudo-translation
  • What is pseudo-translation?
  • How pseudo-translation helps check documents for common localization problems (e.g. length issues) before the actual translation takes place

Registration and payment information (click to expand)
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Click on the buy button on the right to purchase your seat

Participation fee includes:

• Access to training session with SDL Trados Certified Trainer.
• SDL Trados Approved Training Manual & sample files for practice.
• SDL Trados Certification Exams.

Steps to take your training and certification:

1 - Register & Pay

To register in this session please click on the "register and pay later" button on the right. Your status will be marked as "registered" and it will indicate only your interest in the training session. Status changes to registered and paid when payment is processed and informed to ProZ.com.

To purchase your seat at this session please click on the "buy" button. Available slots are limited and will be assigned to registered and paid participants as soon as payment is reported. Early payment is advised in order to secure participation. Allow some time for payment processing if you are paying by wire transfer.

There needs to be a minimum of 6 students to conduct this training session. If the minimum of paid students is not reached 72 hours before the session is to take place, you will be notified and asked to book your seat in an upcoming session without extra cost or transaction from your part.

Participants should not delay in making payments to ensure classes are not canceled due to low enrollment. We suggest then you purchase your spot as soon as possible.

If you have purchased training with SDL Trados or as part of a software + training offer you should redeem your credit by clicking on the "use credit" button on the right. More information about training credits is available here.

After your payment is received, your status will be changed to “registered and paid” and your spot for the session will be secured. An invoice and receipt of payment will be sent to you for your records.

2 - Get your course manual and sample files

After payment you will be given access to a restricted area of the site to download the courseware and sample files.

You don't need to have gone through the manual and files before the training, and ideally should not have them open during the session. Your instructors will be sharing their screen and using the sample files. The manual and files are so that you may practice after the training and prepare to pass the certification exam. Some of the sample files will be proprietary SDL Trados files and can only be opened with an installed activated license of SDL Trados.

3 - Attend the training session

72 hours before the training session takes place, you will receive an invitation to join the session. Please, click the registration link or button provided in the invitation email to join the session at the announced time.

Note: three hour online SDL Trados sessions are not recorded.

4 - Take your SDL Trados Certification exam

SDL TRADOS Certification exams are delivered by SDL TRADOS. Certification exams will be available in your SDL My account approximately 10 working days after making a payment. Note that you must be registered and have an account at SDL to receive the certification exams. If you do not have an account with SDL, you can create one here: https://oos.sdl.com/asp/products/ssl/account/ Make sure you use the same email address associated with your ProZ.com account when creating your SDL account. If you have an account with a different email address, or if after 10 days you have not received the certification exams please contact SDL Product training at [email protected] indicating which training session you have taken along with the proper email address for your SDL account so that the certification exams can be updated.

Please follow the below instructions to access training materials and exams in your sdl.com account:

Log onto your SDL My Account area on the following link https://oos.sdl.com/asp/products/ssl/account/ and go to the Certification and Training page, where you will find the Workbook and sample files for you to download. You will also find 3 attempts at your exam which can be taken at any time online, and will not expire.

If you cannot locate training materials at sdl.com, submit a support request and report an email address associated with your sdl.com account.

Please, read the SDL Certification Training Sessions FAQs for more information
Software and system requirements (click to expand)
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Software

  • No purchase needed. You do not need to have SDL Trados software installed on your machine, the software features will be presented via the trainer’s machine.

  • SDL TRADOS offers a 30-day trial version. It is strongly recommended that you DO NOT have SDL Trados software running during the online training session, as the program and the virtual platform are two resource-intensive applications that may be taxing processor ability. SDL Trados software features will be presented via the trainer’s machine.

  • If you are interested in purchasing a SDL Trados license, visit ProZ.com TGB to buy at the lowest price in the market.


    For PC-based Users:

    • Required: Windows® 8, 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
    • Required: Internet Explorer® 7.0 or newer, Mozilla® Firefox® 3.0 or newer or Google™ Chrome™ 5.0 or newer (JavaScript™ and Java™ enabled)
    • Internet Connection Required: Cable modem, DSL, or better Internet connection
    • Recommended: Dual-core 2.4GHz CPU or faster with 2GB of RAM (recommended)

    For Mac®-based Users:

    • Required: OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks and 10.10 Yosemite
    • Required: Safari™ 3.0 or newer, Firefox® 3.0 or newer or Google™ Chrome™ 5.0 or newer (JavaScript™ and Java™ enabled)
    • Internet Connection Required: Cable modem, DSL, or better Internet connection
    • Required: Intel processor (1GB of RAM or better recommended)

    To Use VoIP (microphone and speakers or headset):

    • Required: Fast Internet connection (384 kbps or more recommended)
    • Required: speakers or headset (USB headset recommended)
    • NOT required: Microphone - attendees can communicate with the trainer through incorporated chat.

    For Mac®-based Users

    • Required: Mac OS® X 10.6 or later
    • Required: Safari™ 3.0 or newer, Firefox® 4.0 or newer or Google™ Chrome™ 5.0 or newer (JavaScript™ and Java™ 1.6 or higher recommended)
    • Internet Connection Required: Cable modem, DSL or better recommended
    • Required: 2.4 GHz Intel processor (Core 2 Duo), 1 GB of RAM or better


    For iPad®-based Users

    • Required: iPad® 1 or newer; iPhone® 3GS or newer; iPod® Touch (3rd generation) or newer
    • iOS 4.2 or newer
    • WiFi recommended for VoIP
    • Free GoToMeeting App from the App Store


    For Android-based Users

    • Android 2.2 or higher
    • 1Ghz CPU or higher recommended
    • WiFi recommended for VoIP
    • Free GoToMeeting App from the Google Play Store

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    SDL Trados Studio 2019 Advanced
    Elise Le Mer
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    have not received the go-to webinar link!Jan 16, 2019

    Hi,
    I don't seem to have received the GoToWebinar link for this training. Can you please resend?
    Thanks
    Elise


     
    have not received the go-to webinar link!Jan 16, 2019

    Elise Le Mer wrote:

    Hi,
    I don't seem to have received the GoToWebinar link for this training. Can you please resend?
    Thanks
    Elise


    Hi Elise,

    Thank you for letting me know. I have resent the join link. Please do not hesitate to let me know if it has not been delivered well. Thanks!

    My bests,
    Helen


     
    Gemino (X)
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    Germany
    Local time: 08:41
    training material / workbookJan 18, 2019

    Hello all,

    it seems as though the training material mentioned during the session is not yet available.
    As the it would be interesting to work with these could you please let us know when and where to access the workbook? Thank you in advance!

    Best regards,
    Gemino


     
    training material / workbookJan 18, 2019

    Gemino wrote:

    Hello all,

    it seems as though the training material mentioned during the session is not yet available.
    As the it would be interesting to work with these could you please let us know when and where to access the workbook? Thank you in advance!

    Best regards,
    Gemino


    Hello Gemino,

    SDL Trados training sessions include manuals, sample files and certification exams.

    SDL Trados Certification exams are delivered by SDL Trados. Certification exams will be available in your SDL My account approximately 10 working days after making a payment. Note that you must be registered and have an account at SDL to receive the certification exams. If you do not have an account with SDL, you can create one here https://oos.sdl.com/asp/products/ssl/account/. Make sure you use the same email address associated with your ProZ.com account when creating your SDL account. Please follow the below instructions to access training materials and exams in your sdl.com account:

    Log onto your SDL My Account area on the following link https://oos.sdl.com/asp/products/ssl/account/certification/certification.aspx and go to the Certification and Training area, where you will find the Workbook and sample files for you to download.

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    You will also find 3 attempts at your exam which can be taken at any time online, and will not expire.

    If you cannot locate training materials at sdl.com, submit a support request and report an email address associated with your sdl.com account.

    Hope this helps.

    My bests,
    Helen


     

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