Students will be able to:
become familiar with the uses of the black and white Arrow tools to resize, rotate, move, manipulate
create simple and complex shapes and lines
change fill, stroke colours and size of shapes and lines
use the color switcher
create vertical and horizontal text
change text to outlines
group and ungroup objects
10 / 10 = Tutorial completed and all What I've Learned questions answered correctly.
7-9 / 10 = Tutorial completed and most WIL questions answered correctly.
6 / 10 = Most of the tutorial completed but WIL questions are missing.
0-5 / 10 = Tutorial is less than half complete and WIL questions are missing.
Access the template here.
Click on the download ⬇️ button in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
If you don't see the download button, click on the 3 dots in the upper right corner and find "Download"
Go to File Explorer 📁, find the Downloads folder, and look for the file you just downloaded.
Click on the file, press CTRL + X (cut) on your keyboard.
Find the folder with your name on the E drive. In your AI folder, press CTRL + V to paste the file into your folder. Double click the file to open it.
Watch the tutorial video 🎥 below.
Complete the tutorial!
When finished:
SAVE your .ai file to your E Drive folder
Export the AI file to a JPEG or PNG (File > Export As...)
Post on your digital portfolio under AI Basics
Answer the What I've Learned questions (bottom of page)
Publish the portfolio
Click "View Published Site"
Copy URL (link) in the address bar
Hand in link to Google Classroom
Click "Turn In"
What key on your keyboard do you press to use the hand 🖐️ tool?
Which menu item do you click to change which "Workspace" you are in? What specific workspace should you use?
What does the black arrow tool do? What does the white arrow tool do?
To make a perfect circle or square, what key do you press on the keyboard while changing the size?
What steps do you take to turn text into an outline?
What steps do you need to take to ungroup outlined objects, such as text?
Do this after finishing crash course