- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Procurement and training tasks Step-by-step tasks for public bodies that buy and introduce Exponential - writing requirements, building the evaluation team, running a proof of concept and a demo, checking claims and history, quotes and hosting costs…
- Training in procurement How a public body plans, buys, budgets and measures Exponential training for editors, administrators and its own trainers, built on the free trainer courses of this help.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- Lesson 1.1: How a request is served Learners compare the four ways to serve an Exponential site, trace a request through the routing rules and prove with four curl requests that the rules are active. 40 minutes.
- Lesson 1.1: How these courses work How the trainer courses are built (courses, modules, lessons), what every lesson page contains, and the one rule behind all of them, every fact from the documentation, the code or a real installation. 30 minutes.
- Lesson 1.1: The developer's map of an installation Learners find their way around the folders of an installation, tell the kernel from extensions, and follow the two rules every later lesson builds on. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 1.1: The Exponential family and choosing a path Learners name the products of the Exponential family, tell the legacy kernel from the Symfony-based platforms, and use the decision table of the migration hub to pick the right guide for a given site. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 1.1: The five ideas of Exponential Layouts Learners explain layout, zone, block, collection and rule, and how they fit together to make a page, before they open the editor. 30 minutes.
- Lesson 1.1: What a design is and where it lives Learners find the design directories of an installation, name the five folders a design holds, and tell a design in design/ from one carried by an extension. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 1.1: What a newsletter system does Learners can name the parts of CJW Newsletter (systems, lists, editions, subscriptions, sending, bounces) and explain how an edition travels from the content tree to a subscriber. 30 minutes.
- Lesson 1.1: What a siteaccess is Learners explain what a siteaccess is, find the siteaccesses of an installation in its settings files, and say which file wins when several set the same value. 45 minutes.
- Lesson 1.1: What a site administrator does Learners describe the duties of a site administrator, tell the administration, editor and public siteaccesses apart, and start their own training installation for the course. 30 minutes.
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