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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
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

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