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

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Lesson 1.3: Who may do what with layouts Learners name the policies of the three layouts modules, decide which role an editor, a page builder and an administrator need, and agree on team rules for publishing layouts. 30 minutes. EditorsAdministratorsWebsite creatorsTrainers Training
Lesson 1.3: Who may use it, and how Learners name the main expai policies, explain that every lookup and write runs with the editor's own content permissions, and design roles for an editor, a power user and a data protection officer. 30 minutes. EditorsAdministratorsTrainers Training
Lesson 1.4: Accommodations in assessment Adjust the conditions of a test or practical task, time, format, breaks, tools, language and the keyboard or zoom settings of the administration, so that every learner can show the skill being assessed, without changing… Trainers Training
Lesson 1.4: A script with the kernel loaded Learners create their first extension folder under Git, write a small PHP script that reads settings and content, and run it with ezexec.php so the kernel is loaded for them. 45 minutes. DevelopersTrainers Training
Lesson 1.4: A siteaccess per language Learners give the second site a German siteaccess, set its languages and fallback order, and check the result on the Content languages page. 50 minutes. AdministratorsDevelopersTrainers Training
Lesson 1.4: Choosing a search backend Learners weigh the built-in engine against Solr for a given site, using its size, its needs and the cost of running a second server, and write a short recommendation. 25 minutes. AdministratorsHosting companiesTrainers Training
Lesson 1.4: OPcache and APCu Learners configure OPcache for PHP-FPM, explain why Velocity ships different OPcache options, and read the opcode cache profile to see whether files are really cached. 35 minutes. AdministratorsHosting companiesTrainers Training
Lesson 1.4: Rehearsal, cut-over and rollback Learners plan rehearsals that measure the cut-over window, write a cut-over runbook with a freeze and a maintenance window, and define a rollback that means switching back rather than undoing. 45 minutes. AdministratorsDevelopersProject managersTrainers Training
Lesson 1.4: Site designs and administration designs Learners tell the public site designs from the administration designs (admin, admin3, admin4, admin4l, editor), read the admin chain, and try another administration design for their own session with the Interface tool… DevelopersDesignersTrainers Training
Lesson 1.4: The run sheet Write the minute-by-minute run sheet of a workshop day, who does what, when, which help page and exercise, the checkpoint of each block, the cut items, and the end-of-day clean-up. 35 minutes. Trainers Training
Lesson 1.4: The settings page Learners read where an INI value comes from on the settings page, compare two siteaccesses, and change and remove one setting safely on their training installation. 40 minutes. AdministratorsTrainers Training
Lesson 1.4: Your course material and the GNU FDL What the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 lets a trainer do with these pages, copy, print, translate, adapt and hand out, and the conditions to keep, with a checklist for a course folder. 30 minutes. Trainers Training
Lesson 1.5: INI files and exp:ini on the command line Learners find the INI files of an installation, read and write a setting with exp:ini in every common scope, preview changes with --dry-run, and know where backups and the audit record go. 35 minutes. AdministratorsTrainers Training
Lesson 1.5: Names and history in class Introduce Exponential correctly in the first minutes of a course, the product name, the product family, 7x and the Exponential Foundation, and the old name only as past-tense history, with a two-minute opening you can… Trainers Training
Lesson 1.5: Running an assessment session Run the assessment on the day, prepare identical training installations, brief learners on the rules, keep time, collect evidence safely, handle a broken installation without penalizing the learner, and clean up test… Trainers Training
Lesson 1.6: Giving feedback on results Give each learner feedback on a test or practical task that names what was shown, what is missing and the help page to read next, deliver a "not yet" result respectfully, and keep results private and only as long as… Trainers Training
Lesson 1.7: Completion certificates you issue in your own name Issue a certificate of completion for a passed assessment in the trainer's or the organization's own name, with honest wording, the course, its modules, the assessment parts and the date, without any claim of official… Trainers Training
Module 2: Assessing the editorial courses Written tests with sourced answer keys and practical tasks with scoring rubrics for the editorial courses, Editors, Exponential Layouts and Exponential Intelligence. About 5 hours 25 minutes if all six are run. EditorsTrainers Training
Module 2: Building the training lab The second module of Train the trainer, machine requirements, getting the code, one installation per learner, serving the sites, learner accounts, resets, shared servers and site packages. Eight lessons, 5 hours 15… AdministratorsTrainers Training
Module 2: Indexing The second module of the Search course, indexing at publish, delayed indexing with the indexcontent cronjob, rebuilding the whole index, and choosing searchable attributes. Four lessons, 2 hours. AdministratorsTrainers Training

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