Online Course for Animation in Animate

it just says you're going to learn how to create motion animation.  you can learn that it 2 minutes:

1. add something to the stage in frame 1 of some layer

2. right click it > click convert to movieclip

3. add another frame right click that timeline layer about frame 20 > click add frame

4. right click the that frame's timeline (ie, somewhere from frame 1 to 20) > click add motion tween

5. drag the on stage movieclip to another location on stage.

6. test

7. experiment:

fiddle with the number of frames (ie, increase/decrease to see you motion animation slow/accelerate). 

fiddle with the motion path.

fiddle with the property (ie, in addition to position, tween other properties (eg, rotation, scaling etc)

etc