A day’s training costs £1200 and is available online only. Here’s a typical agenda. All the information delivered on a training day is available for free in this documentation
Objectives
By the end of the day we will have helped you to learn
- How to find information about your works and workflow
- How to add new metadata and edit existing metadata
- How to get data out of Consonance in AIs and spreadsheets
- How to tailor Consonance to your own way of working
- How to manage your to-dos
- How your colleagues will be using Consonance
- How to prepare for the transition to Consonance
This training day provides an overview of the system. Delegates are encouraged to use the links below to read more about the functionality.
1: Finding information
Attendees: All
- An introduction to what’s in Consonance (Where to start)
- Navigation
- Search and filter products, tasks and contacts (Search: what to use, when; Search: icon; Search: advanced; Search: product page)
- Getting help: documentation and helpdesk (Consonance documentation)
2: Adding and changing data
Attendees: All
- Works and products
- Blurbs
- Contract and permissions (Edit a contract; Add a permission request; Record permission you’ve received
- Contact (Add a contact)
- Recording stock deliveries
3: Workflow management
Attendees: Editorial, production, marketing, design
- To dos (To-do FAQs)
- Issues (About issues; Manage issues)
- Briefings (Create briefs)
- Pipelines (Pipelines: ten uses; Create and use a pipeline)
- Roles
4: Marketing
Attendees: Editorial, marketing, design, production
- Generating AIs
- Where the data comes from on AIs (e.g. Advance information templates)
- Tracking review copies
- Getting covers in and out (Download covers)
5: Reports
Attendees: Editorial, marketing
- Setting up a custom report (Create a product custom report)
- Create a contact custom report
- Run batch actions
- An introduction to ONIX: how it works, when it gets sent
- Google books and Amazon checker
- Stock availability from NBNi
Topics for in-depth training
The following topics require their own specialised training days:
- Royalties
- Contracts and rights
- Production specs
- Advanced ONIX
- Integrations and APIs
- Settings and configuration