Editors 201: course overview
Editors 201 is for editors who already publish confidently and now work on a larger, multilingual or team-run site. It covers what Editors 101 left out: translations, relations and locations, reorganizing content, object states, approvals, addresses, feeds, PDF exports, tags, content checks and accessible writing. It ends with a capstone that combines them.
Who it is for
- Editors who completed Editors 101, or have used Exponential for some months.
- Chief editors and reviewers who approve content.
- Translators working on multilingual sites.
- Editors who look after a part of a site: its structure, its tags, its quality.
Outcome
After the course, learners can translate items and fix content in the wrong language, read and use relations and locations, move, copy and sort content and predict its section, run large operations as background jobs, set object states, send and approve content through a workflow, work as a team without overwriting each other, add URL aliases, check their content in feeds and PDF exports, tag content and maintain tags, run the content checks, and write accessible content.
Format and length
| Lessons | 23 lessons in 8 modules |
| Lesson time | 16 hours 15 minutes (presenting and exercises) |
| With breaks | about 17 hours 25 minutes, as in the modules' timing plans |
| Format | Classroom with a projector, or online with screen sharing; many exercises in pairs |
| Group size | Up to about 12 learners per trainer, an even number for the pair exercises |
| Level | Intermediate |
Modules 4 (object states) and 7 (tags) depend on features your learners' site may not use; leave them out when it does not.
Prerequisites
- Learners: Editors 101 or equivalent experience (signing in, the tree, the edit form, the online editor, images, versions and the trash).
- Trainer: experience as an editor and some administrator rights on the training installation, because several modules need roles, a workflow, a second language, a state group or a tags field prepared (Train the trainer: course overview).
Lab setup
- A training installation reachable from every learner's computer (for example installed with
php bin/php/console exp:install --apply, 7. The console install); how to build and reset it: Module 2: Building the lab of Train the trainer. - One Editor account per learner, plus approver and reviewer accounts for the pair exercises; e-mail addresses at
example.invalid; no real mail. - Each learner's course folder below a folder Training (from Editors 101, or created anew).
- Per module, the preparation listed in its overview: a second content language (module 1), a section learners may
assign and a large folder per learner (module 3), a state group and roles (module 4), an approval workflow and a
running workflow cronjob (module 5), an RSS export and the
pdf/editpolicy (module 6), a tags field and tags (module 7), the content check policies and prepared problems (module 8).
Modules
| Module | Lessons | Duration | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Module 1: Translations and languages | 3 | 2 h 10 min | Content languages, translating, main language, removing a translation |
| Module 2: Relations, locations and embedding | 3 | 2 h 10 min | Relations both ways, several locations, checking before removing |
| Module 3: Organizing content | 4 | 3 h 05 min | Move and copy, sorting, sections, content jobs, the trash in depth |
| Module 4: Object states | 2 | 1 h 15 min | States and groups, setting states, a review flow |
| Module 5: Approvals and collaboration | 3 | 2 h 10 min | Pending items, approving and denying, edit conflicts, team habits |
| Module 6: Addresses, feeds and PDF | 3 | 2 h 10 min | URL aliases, RSS feeds, PDF exports |
| Module 7: Tags | 2 | 1 h 30 min | Tagging content, the tags dashboard |
| Module 8: Quality and accessibility | 3 | 2 h 55 min | Content checks, accessible content, the capstone |
Reading path
For a trainer preparing the course, in this order:
- Languages and Content languages (sections 1 to 9).
- Creating and editing content and Publishing, versions and the trash, as a refresher.
- Removing and hiding: the check of reverse relations and The content model and editing content (sections 8 and 10).
- Sections, Content jobs and The trash view.
- Object states and Workflows, with My drafts and my pending items.
- Links, URL aliases, wildcards and search statistics, RSS feeds and PDF exports.
- eztags, The content checks and Accessibility standards.
- Roles and policies: you will prepare several roles.
- Then the modules in order: each module's overview first (its preparation list and timing plan), then its lessons. Rehearse every exercise, including the pair exercises with two browsers.
Suggested schedules
Lesson times add up to 16 hours 15 minutes; the schedules add breaks.
Three days
| Day | Morning | Afternoon |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Module 1 | Module 2, Module 4 |
| 2 | Module 3 | Module 5 |
| 3 | Module 6, Module 7 | Module 8 |
Two long days without the optional modules
Leave out modules 4 and 7 when the site uses neither object states nor tags (13 hours 30 minutes of lessons):
| Day | Morning | Afternoon |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Module 1, Module 2 | Module 3 |
| 2 | Module 5, Module 6 | Module 8 |
Weekly sessions
One module per week, in order, with the capstone (lesson 8.3) as the last session. Between sessions, learners apply the module on their own site and bring one question.
Assessing learners
- Each lesson's quiz and expected result check understanding during the course.
- Lesson 8.3 (the capstone) has an eight-point checklist for a final practical check.
- The assessments course (Assessments and practical exercises, in this section of the help) has further material. All assessments are the trainer's own material, not an official certification; the partner program's certifications are separate and their details are not published (Certifications).
Related pages
- Trainers: start here
- Course catalogue
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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