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Caution: This documentation is for Exponential, from version 3.x to 6.x.
For 5.x documentation covering Platform see Exponential Platform Documentation, for difference between legacy and Platform see 5.x Architecture overview.

Training

Teaching Exponential: courses, lesson plans, workshops, exercises and assessments for every role.

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Trainers: start here Where everyone who teaches Exponential starts. What the trainer material is, how courses, modules and lessons are built, how to choose a course for a group, how to build the lab, and the rules every trainer keeps. Trainers Training
Course catalogue Every Exponential trainer course in one place, its audience, length, level, prerequisites and modules, with a suggested order and combinations for common groups. Trainers Training
Assessments and practical exercises: course overview The trainer's own assessment material for every Exponential course, how to design fair tests, rubrics and accommodations, written tests with sourced answer keys and practical tasks with rubrics for eleven course areas… Trainers Training
Developers: course overview The course for PHP developers who build on Exponential, from a development installation of Git clones through the template language, designs and overrides, the content model, fetch functions, modules and views… DevelopersTrainers Training
Editors 101: course overview The beginners' course for new editors, 9 modules and 27 lessons, about 19.5 hours of lessons, from signing in to a complete article with images, links, versions and the trash, ending in the Editor siteaccess and a… EditorsTrainers Training
Editors 201: course overview The intermediate course for editors who publish every week, 8 modules and 23 lessons, about 16 hours of lessons, covering translations, relations and locations, organizing content and sections, object states, approvals… EditorsTrainers Training
Exponential Intelligence: course overview The course on Exponential Intelligence (expai), the writing assistant, 7 modules and 21 lessons, about 15.5 hours of lessons, from the three promises through the Intelligence tab, the edit form, Vector and chains to… EditorsAdministratorsTrainers Training
Exponential Layouts: course overview The course on Exponential Layouts, the page builder, 8 modules and 23 lessons, about 17.5 hours of lessons, from the five ideas through layouts, blocks, collections, shared layouts and publishing to mapping rules and a… EditorsDesignersWebsite creatorsTrainers Training
Hosting and operations: course overview The course for system administrators and hosting staff who run Exponential sites, serving the site, Velocity, databases, deploying and cron, monitoring and logs, backups and recovery, performance and scaling. Seven… AdministratorsHosting companiesTrainers Training
Migrating to Exponential: course overview A trainer's course on migrating sites to Exponential 6 - planning, mapping, import and export tools, the in-place paths from the 4.x line and the 5.x legacy stack, the two paths from eZ Platform and Ibexa, WordPress… AdministratorsDevelopersTrainers Training
Multisite and site packages: course overview The course for administrators and developers who run several sites on one installation and build sites from packages, 6 modules and 26 lessons, about 22 hours of lessons, from siteaccesses and request matching to… AdministratorsDevelopersTrainers Training
Newsletters with CJW Newsletter: course overview The course for people who write, send and run newsletters with the cjw_newsletter extension - 6 modules and 20 lessons, 16 hours of lessons, on a training installation that writes every mail to a file and uses only test… EditorsAdministratorsTrainers Training
Search: course overview The course for administrators and developers who run search on an Exponential site, how search works, indexing, searching in practice, Solr through ezfind, tuning and troubleshooting. Five modules, 20 lessons, about 10… AdministratorsDevelopersTrainers Training
Site administration: course overview The course for people who run an Exponential site, the Setup area and settings, users, roles and policies, sections, siteaccesses and states, caches, cronjobs and workflows, logs and the audit trail, security, backups… AdministratorsTrainers Training
Theme design: course overview The course for designers and front-end developers who build themes for Exponential, 8 modules and 30 lessons, about 24 hours of lessons, from the design fallback chain through the pagelayout, overrides, the ezjscore… DevelopersDesignersTrainers Training
Train the trainer: course overview The course for people who will teach Exponential, preparing, building the lab, designing a course, delivering it, accessibility and inclusion, assessment and follow-up. Six modules, 34 lessons, about 21 hours of lessons. Trainers Training
Workshops and bootcamps: course overview Ready programs for compact training, planning a workshop, six one-day agendas, four three-day bootcamps, three five-day bootcamps and three capstone project briefs with rubrics, all built from the lessons of the trainer… Trainers Training
Teaching the core concepts The dozen ideas every Exponential learner needs, content class, attribute, content object, node, version, translation, section, role and policy, siteaccess, design and template, extension, INI settings, with a plain… EditorsAdministratorsDevelopersTrainers Training
Lab quick card Every command a trainer needs to build, serve, check, reset and remove a training installation, on one printable card, with the page that explains each. AdministratorsTrainers Training
Trainer toolkit The checklists and templates a trainer reuses for every course, before, on the day and after, a lab sheet, a learner pre-work message, a handout skeleton, a question board, a feedback slip and a follow-up message. Trainers Training

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