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

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Trainer FAQ Short answers to the questions trainers ask most, about certification, licensing, versions, labs, accounts, mail, languages, accessibility and keeping the material up to date, each with the page that explains it. Trainers Training
Teach web publishing with static sites A lesson plan and exercise for a half-day class - learners edit content in Exponential, build a static copy, review what changes and publish it free to GitHub Pages, then roll it back. Trainers Training
Module 1: Designing assessments The method behind every test, task and capstone in this course, fair design, sourced answer keys, rubrics, accommodations, the assessment session, feedback and completion certificates in the trainer's own name. About 4… Trainers Training
Module 1: Designs and the fallback chain The first module of Theme design. Learners find the designs of an installation, read the design chain of a siteaccess, find the template behind any markup, and tell site designs from administration designs. 3 hours 10… DevelopersDesignersTrainers Training
Module 1: Getting oriented as a site administrator The first module of Site administration, the administrator's job, the training installation, the Setup area, System information, the settings page and exp:ini. Five lessons, 2 hours 55 minutes. AdministratorsTrainers Training
Module 1: Getting started The map of CJW Newsletter, a training installation that cannot send mail, and the newsletter dashboard. Two hours. EditorsAdministratorsTrainers Training
Module 1: How search works The first module of the Search course, where people search, the built-in engine and its limits, Solr through ezfind at a glance, and choosing a backend. Four lessons, 1 hour 45 minutes. AdministratorsTrainers Training
Module 1: Introducing Exponential Intelligence The first module of the Exponential Intelligence course. Learners get the three promises (drafts only, as the editor, never publishing), read the dashboard and design roles. 1 hour 45 minutes. EditorsAdministratorsTrainers Training
Module 1: Introducing Exponential Layouts The first module of the Exponential Layouts course. Learners get the five ideas, find their way around the Layouts tab and the visual editor, and agree who may do what. 1 hour 45 minutes. EditorsWebsite creatorsTrainers Training
Module 1: Planning a migration The planning module of the migration course - the Exponential family and how to choose a path, the inventory and scope, the phases of the common checklist, and rehearsal, cut-over and rollback. Four lessons, 3 hours 15… AdministratorsDevelopersProject managersTrainers Training
Module 1: Planning a workshop The first module of Workshops and bootcamps, choosing a format, venue, kit and helpers, pre-work for learners, and the run sheet. Four lessons, 2 hours 5 minutes. Trainers Training
Module 1: Preparing to teach Exponential The first module of Train the trainer, how the courses are built, the Help center as the textbook, knowing your learners, the license of your material, and names and history. Five lessons, 2 hours 35 minutes. Trainers Training
Module 1: Serving the site The first module of Hosting and operations, how a request is served, Apache and nginx with PHP-FPM, PHP-FPM pools and tuning, OPcache and APCu. Four lessons, 2 hours 45 minutes. AdministratorsHosting companiesTrainers Training
Module 1: Signing in and the tour The first module of Editors 101. Learners get the picture of content items, drafts and roles, sign in and out of the administration or the Editor, and find their way around the screen. 2 hours 20 minutes. EditorsTrainers Training
Module 1: Siteaccesses for several sites The first module of Multisite and site packages. Learners understand siteaccesses and the load order of settings, plan a multisite, add a second site to their training installation and give it a language siteaccess. 3… AdministratorsDevelopersTrainers Training
Module 1: The development installation The first module of the Developers course. Learners find their way around an installation, build a development installation from Git clones with exp:install, switch on debug output and run their first script with the… DevelopersTrainers Training
Module 1: Translations and languages The first module of Editors 201. Learners read an item's languages, translate items, change the main language and remove a translation safely. 2 hours 10 minutes. EditorsTrainers Training
Lesson 1.1: Choosing a workshop format Choose between a half-day taster, a one-day workshop, a three-day bootcamp and a five-day bootcamp, from the group's goal, time and starting level, and pick the matching agenda in this course. 30 minutes. Trainers Training
Lesson 1.1: Content languages and translations Learners tell content languages from the interface language, read an item's language badges and its Translations tab, and explain which translation a site shows. 30 minutes. EditorsTrainers Training
Lesson 1.1: Designing fair assessments Plan an end-of-course assessment that is fair, aligned with the course objectives, honest about its status as the trainer's own material and run on a training installation with the same starting state for every learner… Trainers Training

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