Confluence Training Overview
This Introduction to Confluence training teaches attendees the basics of Atlassian Confluence and how to use it to create content and collaborate with co-workers. Attendees also learn best practices of this highly customizable tool.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
All attendees will:
- Navigate inside of Confluence’s hierarchical environment
- Create, edit, and format documents in Confluence
- Create or modify content using embedded formatting tools
- Work collaboratively with co-workers inside of Confluence
- Use Confluence’s social network features such as like, share, and comment
- Link documents to content inside and outside of the Confluence environment
- Use macros to create robust content
- Work with macros and add-ons – create, edit, and sort data in tables
- Use and modify blueprints and templates
- Use advanced content creation tools
- Set up users and permissions
- Create and configure spaces
- Configure global settings
- Install macros and add-ons
Prerequisites
No prior experience is presumed.
Outline
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Introduction
Confluence Background
- Overview
- Capabilities
- Navigation
- Shortcuts
Managing your profile
Introduction to Spaces
- Spaces overview
- Sharing & permissions
- Space tools
Managing a personal space
- Creating (drafts/publishing)
- Editing
- Page properties
- Sharing & Permissions
The Nature of Collaboration
- Environment and context
- The nature of collaboration
- Keys to effective collaboration
- Roles in collaboration: Users, Managers & Admins
- The Confluence collaboration life cycle
Organizing information
- Information Architecture
- Understanding adoption
- Best Practices
- Confluence examples
- Products, Projects & Teams
Confluence Administration
- Users & Confluence
- Includes invitations
- Roles & permissions & security
- Creating new spaces
Managing global spaces
- Global space overview
- Creating a global space
- Sharing & permissions
- Blueprints & templates
Working with Pages
- Confluence pages as working tool & knowledge base
- Versioning and drafts
- Collaborative editing
- Attachments
- Tasks
- Blogs
- Importing & Exporting
- Macros
- Jira integration
- Plug-ins
- Dashboards
Permissions
- What users can see and do
- Space permissions
- Global permissions
- Page permissions
More Administration
- Look and Feel Adjustments
- Exporting and backing up spaces
- Archiving and deleting spaces
- Blueprints & templates
- Confluence permissions
- Content maintenance (update and archiving)
- Archived Spaces
Developing a Confluence Framework
- Outline the initial implementation
- Outline initial minimal architecture
- Use existing artifacts for quick sketch
- Document the sketches
- Groups
- Permissions
- Taxonomies
- Determine iteration properties
- Hypothesis and tests
- Iteration time frame
- Identify evaluation metrics
- Identify broad set of test users
- Identify find the and where is scenarios
- Update content/architecture based on feedback
Conclusion
Training Materials
All students receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
Accelebrate can provide a remote lab environment for this class. All attendees should have computers with Internet access and a modern web browser (ideally Chrome).
