Training
Teaching Exponential: courses, lesson plans, workshops, exercises and assessments for every role.
569 pages
- Lesson 1.2: Signing in and out Learners sign in to the administration or the Editor, recover from the usual sign-in messages, know how a forgotten password works and sign out safely. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 1.2: The built-in search engine Learners explain how the built-in engine eZSearchEngine stores words in the database, how it matches words and phrases, and which shipped limits shape every search. 30 minutes.
- Lesson 1.2: The Exponential Intelligence dashboard Learners read the Exponential Intelligence dashboard, the status line, the period and scope, the four figures, Start writing, limits, budget, the chart, models and recent drafts, and know the dashboard block on the main…
- Lesson 1.2: The Help center as your textbook Use the Help center inside the administration as the textbook of every course, search, audience filters, the All pages tree, bookmarkable search addresses, context help, print and PDF. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 1.2: Translating an item Learners add a translation to an item, starting from an existing translation or empty, publish it on its own, and change an existing translation. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 1.2: Venue, kit and helpers Prepare the room and the equipment for a hands-on workshop, network, power, projector, spare machines, printed quick cards, one helper per eight to ten learners, and an accessible room. 30 minutes.
- Lesson 1.2: Writing written tests with a sourced answer key Write multiple choice and short answer questions that check understanding, with an answer key in which every answer cites the help page that proves it, and keep the key hidden from learners until the test is over. 45…
- Lesson 1.3: Adding a second site step by step Learners add a second public site to their training installation, with its own root folder, siteaccess, start page and name, register it and reach it by its URL path. 60 minutes.
- Lesson 1.3: A tour of the screen Learners find their way around the Admin 4 screen, the header, the tabs, the left and right columns and the dashboard, and change their interface language and color mode. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 1.3: Building scoring rubrics for practical tasks Build a scoring rubric with criteria in rows and four levels in columns, describe each level by what the trainer can see on the training installation, set points and a pass rule, and check that two trainers score the…
- Lesson 1.3: Debug output and logs Learners switch on debug output, used templates and template path comments for their development installation, read the Exp Debug bar, follow the error log and write their own debug lines. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 1.3: Knowing your learners Match the course to the people in the room, using the audiences the help itself is organized by (editors, administrators, developers, designers, hosting companies and more), a short pre-course survey and a skills check…
- Lesson 1.3: Main language, always available and removing a translation Learners change an item's main language with Set main, explain the always-available setting, and remove a translation safely, knowing that it deletes that language's text in every version. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 1.3: PHP-FPM pools and tuning Learners set the PHP values Exponential needs in a PHP-FPM pool, line up the timeouts, check APCu, and find and reload the master that really serves the site. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 1.3: Pre-work for learners Send learners a short, clear preparation a week before, machine checks, accounts or installs, two help pages to read, and the arrangements question, so the workshop starts with everyone ready. 30 minutes.
- Lesson 1.3: Solr and ezfind at a glance Learners describe what the optional ezfind extension and a Solr server add to an installation, which parts are involved, and how an installation shows which engine it uses. 25 minutes.
- Lesson 1.3: System information and health checks Learners read the System information page, act on its health checks, compare it with the command-line report, and produce a masked report for a support request. 35 minutes.
- Lesson 1.3: The newsletter dashboard Learners read the newsletter dashboard section by section, find the lists, the last sends and the problems, and know which buttons start work in the background. 30 minutes.
- Lesson 1.3: The phases of a migration and the checklist Learners lay out a migration as the phases every path shares (inventory, scope, mapping, URLs, metadata, import, rehearsal, test, cut-over, rollback, after go-live), turn the common checklist into a project plan, and…
- Lesson 1.3: Which template wrote this markup? Learners switch on template path comments for one siteaccess, find the template behind a piece of a page in the page source, read the override note in brackets, and switch the comments off again. 45 minutes.
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