Course catalogue
This catalogue lists the trainer courses in the help. Each course has a course overview with its modules, a reading path for the trainer and suggested schedules; each module has a timing plan; each lesson is one page. Durations include the hands-on exercises but not breaks.
The courses
| Course | For | Level | Length | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train the trainer | People who will teach Exponential | Beginner to intermediate | 34 lessons, about 21 hours (3 to 4 days) | Browser and terminal skills |
| Editors 101 | New editors and authors | Beginner | 27 lessons, about 19.5 hours (about 3 days) | A browser |
| Editors 201 | Editors who publish every week | Intermediate | 23 lessons, about 16 hours (about 3 days) | Editors 101 |
| Exponential Layouts | Editors and site builders who build pages with blocks | Beginner to intermediate | 23 lessons, about 17.5 hours (about 3 days) | Editors 101 |
| Exponential Intelligence | Editors and administrators who use the AI features | Beginner to advanced | 21 lessons, about 15.5 hours (about 2.5 days) | Editors 101 |
| Site administration | People who run a site | Intermediate | 48 lessons, about 30 hours (about 5 days) | Editors 101, basic command line |
| Hosting and operations | System administrators and hosting staff | Intermediate to advanced | 28 lessons, about 20 hours (3 to 4 days) | Site administration, Linux |
| Search | Administrators and developers | Intermediate | 20 lessons, about 10 hours (1.5 to 2 days) | Site administration |
| Multisite and site packages | Administrators and developers | Intermediate to advanced | 26 lessons, about 22 hours (about 4 days) | Site administration |
| Developers | PHP developers who build on Exponential | Intermediate to advanced | 53 lessons, about 45 hours (about 7 days) | PHP, Git |
| Theme design | Designers and front-end developers | Beginner to advanced | 30 lessons, about 24 hours (about 4 days) | HTML, CSS |
| Newsletters | Editors and administrators who send newsletters | Beginner to advanced | 20 lessons, about 16 hours (about 2.5 days; 1.5 days for the editors' path) | Editors 101 |
| Migrating to Exponential | Teams moving a site to Exponential | Intermediate to advanced | 25 lessons, about 22.5 hours (about 4 days) | Site administration or Developers |
| Workshops and bootcamps | Groups that need a compact program | All | Half-day, 1-, 3- and 5-day programs | Depends on the agenda |
| Assessments and practical exercises | Trainers who assess learners | All | About 6 hours for the trainer; tests and tasks per course | The course being assessed |
Each course overview lists shorter schedules built from its modules.
Suggested order
Train the trainer (for the trainer)
Editors 101 --> Editors 201 --> Newsletters
| |
| +--> Exponential Layouts --> Exponential Intelligence
|
+--> Site administration --> Hosting and operations
| --> Search
| --> Multisite and site packages
|
+--> Developers --> Theme design
--> Migrating to ExponentialCombinations for common groups
| Group | Program |
|---|---|
| A new editorial team | Editors 101 (3 days), then Exponential Layouts (3 days), a month later Editors 201; or the editor bootcamp |
| An intranet administrator | Editors 101, Modules 1 to 3 only; then Site administration (5 days, or its intensive four-day schedule) |
| An agency's developers | Developers (7 days, or its four-day agency fast track), Theme design (4 days), Exponential Layouts (selected modules) |
| A hosting company's support staff | Site administration, modules on caches, cronjobs, logs and upgrades; then Hosting and operations |
| A migration project team | Site administration (selected modules), Migrating to Exponential, then Developers as needed |
| New trainers | Train the trainer, then one subject course taught back to the group |
How to use a course
- Read the course overview and its reading path.
- Rehearse every exercise on the version you will teach (Writing exercises that work).
- Build the lab (Module 2 of Train the trainer).
- Run the modules with their timing plans; use the quizzes and expected results to check understanding.
- Collect feedback and improve the course (Collecting feedback).
Related pages
- Trainers: start here
- Train the trainer: course overview
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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