Module 3: Blocks
The hands-on heart of the course. Learners fill their course layout with blocks of every basic kind and learn the editor's movements until they are routine.
At a glance
| Course | Exponential Layouts |
| Duration | 3 hours 10 minutes (with a 10-minute break) |
| Lessons | 4 |
| Level | Beginner to intermediate |
Lessons
| Lesson | Duration | What learners do |
|---|---|---|
| Lesson 3.1: Adding, moving and removing blocks | 45 minutes | Add, select, drag, duplicate and delete blocks |
| Lesson 3.2: Text blocks: Title, Text, Rich text, Markdown and HTML | 45 minutes | Fill a title, a rich text and a Markdown block |
| Lesson 3.3: Buttons, images and the Design tab | 45 minutes | Add a button and an image, name blocks, apply a theme class |
| Lesson 3.4: Containers and the Full view block | 45 minutes | Split a zone into columns, add a Full view block |
Preparing this module
- Each learner's course layout from module 2.
- Two or three CSS classes of the training site's theme that visibly change a block (a background, a spacing), written on the board for lesson 3.3.
- An image address from the training site's media library for lesson 3.3, and an
https://address for links. - Open each block type once on your training installation and note the exact field names of its Content tab; they come from the block handlers and can differ between versions.
Timing plan
| Part | Minutes |
|---|---|
| Lesson 3.1 | 45 |
| Lesson 3.2 | 45 |
| Break | 10 |
| Lesson 3.3 | 45 |
| Lesson 3.4 | 45 |
| Total | 190 |
Related pages
- Exponential Layouts: course overview
- Trainers: start here
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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