2. Demonstrate Your Skills to an Evaluator

Requirement Submission

Submit the date and name of the person who conducted your evaluation. View the list of evaluators here: https://wiki.learnsoftware.org/current-sages/

Prerequisite

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Practice ETD File:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B54hicivTmYwV1ZiT0M2cTlJazg

Demonstrate skill with:

• Use styles to format Headings 1 – 3 (ALL Headings should be done in APA styles)
• Use Style separators for Heading 3
• For Example, Heading 3’s should look likes this (see below) but should not have the entire paragraph the Heading 3 applies as part of the heading.
• “Mean Length of Utterance. The use of MLU as a measure syntactic complexity in child language is a long-standing practice. Brown (1973) popularized the use of MLU based on morpheme count as a simple index of grammatical development….”
• Follow the ETD guidelines as they appear in the pdf labeled GradStudies_Checklist.pdf that can be found on the byutraining@gmail.com Drive, under Competency Badge example files.
• Keep in mind these formatting changes from the Checklist (as of Aug 2017)
• Only the year after the copyright symbol is needed on the title page
• If the checklist doesn’t specify a specific format, use APA guidelines.
  
• Generate table of contents
• Generate a list of tables and figures using your own styles or captions.
• Insert section breaks to achieve correct page numbers.
• Convert the word to PDF, make sure fonts are embedded and the initial view properties setting is set on “Bookmarks Panel and Page.”

You should be able to demonstrate

• The two best ways to export to PDF
• XPS/PDF export
• Acrobat Tab
• The two ways to embed fonts in Acrobat
• Embed Missing fonts
• Fix Font problems
• Where to look and see if font problems exist in the pdf

Questions you should be able to answer

• What amount of editing can be done directly to the PDF before you have to go back to word?
• How to delete a page, or turn a page landscape, in Acrobat.