28 Oct MadCap Flare Certificate Course
Get Expertise in Managing Single Source projects
The comprehensive training program is meticulously designed to help technical writers gain expertise in MadCap Flare, an industry-leading technical authoring tool.
Registration is open.
Schedule and Details
- Dates: May 10-11, 17-18, 24-25, May 31- June 1, 2025
- Time: 10.15 AM-1.15 PM IST
- Group Interaction with Q&A after sessions: 4 Weeks (8 Online Sessions, 24 hours)
Who should attend?
- All who want to gain expertise in the day-to-day life working with MadCap Flare.
- First-time users
- Leads who manage CSS
- Leads who are responsible for creating website using MadCap Flare
Requirements for Participants
- MadCap Flare installed before the first session. (Mac users must check if they can access it after installation)
- Access to Microsoft Teams to attend the sessions.
- Attending the online sessions
- Working on activities with the trainer
What you will learn!
- Project setup and organization
- Single-sourcing capabilities (Conditional tagging, variables, and snippets)
- Customizable HTML5 output
- Responsive design options
- Version control
- Collaboration and review workflows
- Best practices for topic-based authoring
- Search optimization
- Content authoring, design
- Content migration and publishing
Benefits
- HELPLINE available after the sessions for related questions
- Practice-based sessions
- Creating projects during the course
- Toolkit for future reference
- Certificate from Tech Writer’s Tribe (Registered Company) after completion of the exam with a minimum of 70% marks.
- A documentation site on your own. The site would consist of:
- Home Page
- PDF Downloads Page
- 2 Guides (HTML & PDF formats)
Early Bird offer (Open)
- Individual Fee UPI Payment (For India)
- Course Fee: INR 6101
- Total with GST: INR 7200
- Group of 3 or more (UPI Payment):
- Course Fee: INR 5508
- Total with GST: INR 6900
- Payment by Card (India):
- INR 7450: Individual Fee
- INR 7200 each: Group of 3 or more
- Outside India: USD 110 Per participant
Full Fee (To open after Early Bird is closed)
- Individual Fee UPI Payment (For India)
- Course Fee: INR 6441
- Total Fee with GST: INR 7600
- Group of 3 or more (UPI Payment):
- Course Fee: INR 6101
- Total with GST: INR 7200
- Payment by Card (India):
- INR 7800: Individual Fee
- INR 7500 each: Group of 3 or more
- Outside India: USD 125 per participant
Curriculum and Schedule
Module 1: Getting Started with MadCap Flare and Authoring Content
Level: Beginner
Registration: Available to register as a weekend module
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Day 1: Getting Started with MadCap Flare
- Key Concepts and Terminologies
Walkthrough of MC Flare specific concepts and terminologies that will be used throughout the course - Sample Output: Show and tell
Sample HTML5 Doc site with capability to download PDF documents
It will be the result of this course. By the last session, all participants of the full course will be able to create a similar output. - MadCap Central & AI Introduction
- Overview of MadCap Central as a CMS
- Overview of AI capabilities
- Creating and Structuring Topics
- Creating topics and structuring using Headings, Lists, Tables
- Heading levels, using them from the style list
- List types
- Table ribbon menu, context menu, properties, cell properties, best practices
- Drop-down text
- Managing Multimedia
- Inserting images and videos
- Managing multimedia files
- Creating and Managing Linking
- Creating Links and Cross References
- Creating and Managing TOCs
- Building table of contents
- Organizing and linking topics
- Main navigation-HTML
Module 2: Advanced Authoring Techniques + Formatting and Styling Content-Stylesheets
Level: Advanced
Registration: Available to register as a weekend module
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Day 3: Advanced Authoring Techniques
- Single Sourcing Overview
- Understanding single-sourcing
- Implementing single-sourcing strategies
- Using Conditional Text
- Defining conditions
- Applying conditional text
- Using Snippets and Variables
- Creating and using snippets
- Defining and using variables
- Using Microcontent
- Creating and using microcontent
Day 4: Formatting and Styling Content-Stylesheets
- Overview
- Explanation: Inline formatting and stylesheets
- Style precedence
- Best practices
- Stylesheets (CSS)
- CSS concepts
- Creating stylesheet, Stylesheet Editor
- Applying at topic, target, and project levels
- Applying styles at content level
- Style Window and Formatting Window
- Editing an existing CSS
- Branding Styles
- Creating/Editing the branding CSS based on predefined branding
- Setting up/Using CSS variables
- Table Styles
- Creating and applying table styles via Table Properties
Module 3: Formatting and Styling Output-Skins and Responsive Design + Creating Output Layouts (HTML & PDF)
Level: Advanced
Registration: Available to register as a weekend module
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Day 5: Formatting and Styling Output-Skins and Responsive Design
- Using Skins for Output
- Using Skins
- Overview: Skins and components (Header, Search, Navigation, and so on)
- Editing skins
- Creating skins using factory templates
- Applying skins to targets
- Skins for components
- Responsive Design
- Ensuring content is mobile-friendly
- Using media queries
Day 6: Creating Output Layouts (HTML & PDF)
- Template Pages
- Proxies: Explanation and walkthrough
- Creating Template Pages
- Applying template pages at topic and project levels
- Editing proxy properties
- Page Layouts
- Creating page layouts for cover page and topic pages
- Customizing headers and footers using variables
- Creating Cover Page and Contents Page
- ToC Editor and Node properties for Print output
- Printed Output properties
Module 4: Publishing and Output
Level: Beginner + Advanced
Registration: Available to register as a weekend module
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- HTML5 Targets
- Overview: Explanation and Target Editor walkthrough
- Creating an HTML5 Target
- Building HTML5 output
- PDF Targets
- Overview: Explanation and Target Editor walkthrough
- Creating a PDF Target
- Building PDF output
- Creating Destinations
- Associating with targets
Module 4: Publishing and Output
Level: Beginner + Advanced
Registration: Available only to Full Course Participants
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- Content Reviews
- Overview: Reviews via Flare
- Review tasks: Tracking changes, providing feedback, creating and using review packages
- Project Analysis Reports
- Overview: Ways to maintain project quality
- Analysis reports: Broken links, Unused Items, Snippet/Variable Suggestions
- MadCap Central & AI Overview
- Overview of how MadCAp Central can be used as a CMS to leverage AI capabilities
- AI plugin developed by a 3rd party for Flare
- Online Test, Capstone project, and Q&A
List of Demos during the course
Here is a list of multiple pre-recorded demos that are part of the full course will be shared on different days. With demos and discussions, you can learn more.
- Search
- Search Optimization
- Ways to improve your content’s findability using Flare
- Implement all ways and demo
- Search Filters
- Create Concepts and apply them to topics
- Create a Filter Set
- Apply the Filter Set to targets
- Meta Tags
- Create Meta Tags
- Migration: MS Word to MadCap Flare
About the Instructor
Shrutika Dhake
Technical Publications Manager with 15 years of experience in software technical documentation
At her current organization, she heads the Technical Publications team for 6 products and contributes to product design and UX.
- Specializes in documenting products from scratch, revamping existing documentation sets, and content strategy.
- Self-taught UX advocate and strongly believes in applying UX principles to technical documentation.
- Passionate about animal welfare and actively works for street animals.
She enjoys challenges and at her current organization, took it upon herself to migrate the entire documentation set consisting of 4 products to MadCap Flare from scratch. With MadCap Flare, she specializes in setting up doc environments, designing sites, creating styles and templates, and creating content.
Testimonials
Shrutika is great. She is dedicated and answered all the questions during the course. She has been very helpful. The course structure is great and the content is also very helpful. I have been using MadCap Flare since many years and was looking for some advanced capabilities. But, I received references from Shrutika and the information about search and meta tags is really useful to me.
TWT is a wonderful platform for the Technical Writing Community. The opportunities and learnings that we receive here are really beneficial. The organizers specially Punit has been instrumental in keeping the spirit of the group alive.
Dimple Mittal
Edifecs
Shrutika explains the concepts in a clear and logical manner. She has great product knowledge and is prompt in guiding and troubleshooting. Well planned and covered all the important topics. This is a well-planned course. The trainer, Shrutika, is very knowledgeable. The toolkits and other reference materials are provided in a timely manner.
Sonal Rajapurkar
BMC Software
She has delivered the training structure very well. Also, she has made us practice simultaneously, which helps us understand Flare and its features. It was a good experience to learn Flare from an expert like Shrutika. Her practical knowledge in teaching was reflected very well. It will help me to work on my own on different projects now. Thanks to Punit for organizing such an event.
Pratik Kamble
TechTalks
Intelligent, helpful and calm in training. Helped me to understand and know Madcap Flare better. The training was very good, so were the trainer and the management. Many thanks overall.
Venkateshwaran P
Flowserve India Pvt Ltd
Initially MadCap was a very hard stone to turn around, but gradually as the training started I was brushed with all its concepts and methods. Thanks to Punit and Shrutika for starting such training.
Pallavi Shukla
Ciena
She explains everything in detail catering to every aspect with different possible scenarios. She automatically answers questions while teaching such that many doubts get automatically cleared the moment they arise. I knew nothing about Flare and in the beginning, felt intimidated by the thought of coping up in the presence of people who are already working on Flare. But, now I am pretty confident using Flare and didn’t even once felt that I lacked something. The course is thoughtfully designed to teach beginners along with experienced tech writers.
Shubh Karman Dhaliwal
Scintillation Res
She is a good trainer. Understands the questions and explains clearly. Thank you for the informative sessions. The sessions helped me good and handful of experiences. Both the new and experienced writers will definitely gain enough knowledge to proceed further in their careers. Thank you, TWT! All the best!
Chaitanya Padavala
Capgemini
She is a good trainer. This course is really helpful to understand madcap flare and how to use it in an efficient way.
Vinoda Katkamwar
Icsoft
This is a great course for both new and intermediate learners. The trainer has good knowledge and patiently listens to all the questions and resolves them. Some of the options explained in the training for improving the search results are very helpful. Shrutika was good with the course curriculum, touching on every main aspect of MadCap to give a good understanding. The training was nicely paced, helping to understand the concepts. She was patiently taking up all the questions and answering them.
Rohit Gupta
FIS Global
TWT has unbeatably manifested itself a robust platform to collaborate, learn, and grow together amidst the cut-throat competition as far as technical writing is concerned. Shrutika possesses impeccable knowledge of the subject matter and is a great communicator in extending and sharing knowledge on the same. Look forward to getting associated with her in the near future for more learnings and upskilling.
Parineeta Sharma
Aristocrat
MadCap Flare training helped me explore many options I never touched on as a writer. I surely take this training as an improvement on my project and doc site publishing.
Vasantha Mani
Ciena
The training is exactly in sequence on how we are going to use MadCap flare. The trainer is very knowledgeable and answered all the questions. This is a very nice course to start your journey with MadCap Flare.
Samyak Mukherjee
Oracle
I like how structured the entire course is. The possibilities of using Mad Cap Flare as an authoring tool could be endless and for a newbie it might be a bit overwhelming at times but the course is designed in such a way that even a first time user can start using the tool from the word go. Shrutika is very knowledgeable and very helpful as a trainer. As a trainer, she is very keen to clear our doubts and concerns.
Jobi P Joshi
HCL
The training was greatly conducted. The overall objective is definitely met. Shrutika as a trainer, has great knowledge on the subject and she could deliver effectively. I feel it’s a must have for those who are going to start career with Flare. Shrutika has very good knowledge in Flare. The way she train us is very commendable.
Sankha Mishra
AiDash
TWT has become my go to place for all technical writing related topics, and MadCap Flare training was no different. Shrutika is brilliant in explaining the MadCap Flare tool and she is friendly as well.
Binoy TV
Markem-Imaje
The course on Madcap Flare was very much helpful, and the online exercise and the offline tasks helped a lot in understanding the concepts, and gave the required practice. Shrutika as a trainer has really framed the course to build a perfect foundation which has provided enough opportunities to explore more.
Vishnu Chandroth
Collins
She is very knowledgeable in her area. And, was very patient thoroughout. Her conduct was very positive when people (who joined late) demanded a rerun of the concept. She explained all the concepts well and made us practice them in the session. That was a good part. It was great interacting with her. Overall, I am satisfied with the training. Thank you.
Harsha Ramwani
Baker Hughes
Thanks TWT for such good courses. The trainer is very nice, informative, soft spoken and answers all query.
Richa Arora
TechM
Excellent in one word. Knowledge, patience: the trainer, Shrutika knows how to manage the flow of the training
Venkat Santosh Kumar Gumma
Accenture
Shrutika is proficient in what she is doing. She was very interactive and was able to answer questions and resolve some issues which we were facing during the course.
P.Pavithra Selvakumari
Freelancer
Trainer has a good working knowledge on Madcap Flare. Amazing TWT team. Helps Tech Writers to learn New/Existing tools.
Swathi Reddy
KPMG
She is a good trainer. Her communication is also good as per my understanding.
Nandadulal Patra
Cloud4C Services
The training is exactly in sequence on how we are going to use MadCap flare. The trainer is very knowledgeable and answered all the questions. This is a very nice course to start your journey with MadCap Flare.
Samyak Mukherjee
Oracle
Ashish Singh
Posted at 21:00h, 18 NovemberHello Team,
I want to enroll for madclap flare course
Reshmi
Posted at 11:03h, 21 JuneAny week end course for Madcap flare certification?
K_admin
Posted at 16:46h, 21 JuneThis is a weekend course.
Sachin
Posted at 11:37h, 14 AugustWon’t we need a Madcap Flare license for installing it?
K_admin
Posted at 13:33h, 14 AugustYou can download trial version. It is valid for 30 days. But do not download unless we request.
Ruchi
Posted at 21:14h, 06 OctoberWhen the next batch will start for madcapfalre certification?
Raja Posupo
Posted at 15:07h, 26 FebruaryHello Team
I want to enroll for madcap flare course.
Thank you
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