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

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Module 4: Delivering a course The fourth module of Train the trainer, the first hour, safe demonstrations, unknown answers, troubleshooting in class, security and privacy, and self-help habits. Six lessons, 4 hours 15 minutes. Trainers Training
Module 4: Deploying and cron The fourth module of Hosting and operations, deploying a change with exp:velocity deploy, cron on the server, the cronjob console and upgrading customer sites. Four lessons, 2 hours 55 minutes. AdministratorsHosting companiesTrainers Training
Module 4: Five-day bootcamps Three five-day programs, the full-stack developer week, the agency onboarding week and the trainer academy week, each with a daily plan and a capstone reviewed on day 5. Trainers Training
Module 4: From the 4.x line The module on moving an old 4.x site of the legacy kernel to Exponential 6 in place - taking stock, the database runbook, files, settings, designs and porting extensions to PHP 8, and verifying the result. Four lessons… AdministratorsDevelopersTrainers Training
Module 4: Links between sites The fourth module of Multisite and site packages. Learners explain and configure links from one site to content of another with ezurlmultisite, and run several sites from one administration with roles limited to each… AdministratorsDevelopersTrainers Training
Module 4: Object states The fourth module of Editors 201. Learners read object states on the Details tab and set them, for one item and a subtree, in a review flow played in pairs. 1 hour 15 minutes. EditorsTrainers Training
Module 4: Sections, siteaccesses and object states The fourth module of Site administration, sections and a members area, reading siteaccesses and their matching, object states with a review example, and content languages. Four lessons, 2 hours 50 minutes. AdministratorsTrainers Training
Module 4: Sending Previews and test sends, scheduling and sending an edition, the cronjobs and console commands, aborting a send, the archive and statistics - all on a training installation that writes every mail to a file. 3 hours 15… EditorsAdministratorsTrainers Training
Module 4: Solr and ezfind The fourth module of the Search course, installing ezfind and a Solr server, exp:solr and the Solr settings, indexing with Solr, and relevance, elevation and facets. Four lessons, 2 hours 10 minutes. AdministratorsDevelopersHosting companiesTrainers Training
Module 4: Styling the administration The fourth module of Theme design. Learners learn the administration styling rules, build a dashboard block from the shared admin4 components, style it with tokens that work in dark mode, handle forced colors and right… DevelopersDesignersTrainers Training
Module 4: The Online Editor The fourth module of Editors 101. Learners format rich text in the online editor (TinyMCE 8), make links and anchors, embed images, build tables and choose their editor engine. 2 hours 40 minutes. EditorsTrainers Training
Module 4: Vector The fourth module of the Exponential Intelligence course. Learners set up a Vector thread with a scope, approve a plan, review staged changes part by part, and use stop, checkpoints and What changed. 2 hours 40 minutes. EditorsTrainers Training
Bootcamp 4.1: The full-stack developer week Five days that prepare developers to lead an Exponential project, installation and Git, content modeling, templates and designs, extensions and modules, operations and Velocity, with a site built across the week and… DevelopersTrainers Training
Lesson 4.1: Classes, attributes and identifiers Learners read the content model as a developer, create a small class in Setup > Classes, and list a class's attributes, datatypes and required fields from PHP with eZContentClass. 50 minutes. DevelopersTrainers Training
Lesson 4.1: Deploying a change Learners ship a PHP or INI change with exp:velocity deploy, read the dry run step by step, explain why the order of the steps matters, and handle template-only changes without a restart. 45 minutes. AdministratorsHosting companiesTrainers Training
Lesson 4.1: Developers, written test A fourteen-question written test for the end of the Developers course, on extensions and their loading order, autoloads, modules and views, access control, templates and overrides, Git clones with Composer, the REST API… DevelopersTrainers Training
Lesson 4.1: Installing ezfind and a Solr server Learners add the ezfind extension to their training installation with Composer, activate it, create its table, start the Solr server the extension ships, and confirm that the site search now runs on ezsolr. 35 minutes. AdministratorsDevelopersHosting companiesTrainers Training
Lesson 4.1: Listing blocks and manual collections Learners add a List block, choose its view type, fill a manual collection with + Add items from the content browser, order and remove items, and override one item's view type. 45 minutes. EditorsWebsite creatorsTrainers Training
Lesson 4.1: Previews and test sends Learners check an edition with the preview tabs and the preview as a subscriber, send a test to addresses at example.invalid through the file transport, and read the test mail file. 45 minutes. EditorsTrainers Training
Lesson 4.1: Rich text basics Learners format text in the online editor (TinyMCE 8), with paragraph styles, headings, bold and italic, lists, undo and redo, special characters and full screen, and paste text cleanly. 45 minutes. EditorsTrainers Training

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