Trainers: start here #

This section of the help is for people who teach Exponential: professional trainers, team leads who onboard new editors, consultants who hand a site over to a customer, teachers who use Exponential in a class, and community members who run workshops. It holds complete courses, built from modules and lessons, that you can run as they are, cut into shorter sessions or adapt for your organization.

Every lesson is written for the trainer and the learners at once: objectives, the trainer's notes, a hands-on exercise on a real installation, the expected result, a quiz with answers, and links into the rest of the help. Every fact comes from this documentation, the code or a real installation; when the software changes, the lessons change with it.

Contents #

1. What you find here
2. How a course is built
3. Choosing a course for a group
4. Your first hour as a trainer
5. The rules every trainer keeps
6. Pages from other audiences you will use
7. Finding these pages again

What you find here #

How a course is built #

Course    a course overview: who it is for, the modules, a reading path, schedules
  Module    a module overview: the lessons, preparing the module, a timing plan
    Lesson    one page: at a glance, objectives, trainer's notes, exercise, expected result, quiz, further reading

Each lesson has a duration that includes its exercise, so a module's timing plan adds up. The first lesson of Train the trainer explains the structure in detail.

Choosing a course for a group #

The Course catalogue has every course: also Exponential Intelligence, Search, Multisite and site packages, Newsletters, Workshops and bootcamps, and Assessments. Lesson 1.3: Knowing your learners shows how to find out who your learners are.

Your first hour as a trainer #

1. Read how the courses work (10 minutes): Lesson 1.1.
2. Learn the Help center (20 minutes): Lesson 1.2.
3. Build a first lab (25 minutes): install a training site with one command, Lesson 2.3, and serve it, Lesson 2.4.
4. Pick your first course (5 minutes) in the Course catalogue.

The rules every trainer keeps #

1. Teach from the real thing. Rehearse every exercise on the version you teach. When a lesson and the software disagree, the software wins, and the lesson gets fixed (Adapting and improving these courses).
2. Use training installations. Never a live site, never real customer data, never a shared administrator account (Demonstrating safely).
3. Test accounts use example.invalid. No exercise may send mail to a real person.
4. Use the right names. The product is Exponential; 7x is the company that leads it; the Exponential Foundation is the nonprofit; the old name is history (Names and history in class).
5. Keep it accessible and honest. Accessible materials (Module 5), and no claim of official certification (Certificates of attendance).

Pages from other audiences you will use #

Finding these pages again #

• In the Help center, use the audience filter Trainers or the category Training, or open All pages and the folder of the trainers.
• Every page has Edit on GitHub: if a lesson is wrong or a step changed, fix it for every trainer after you.

Training on a shared demo. A training installation that every participant signs in to as an administrator can run in demo mode (EXP_DEMO_MODE=1), so no participant can lock the others out by changing the password; reinstall it between courses. Demo mode FAQ.

Related pages #

• Course catalogue
• Train the trainer: course overview
• Who is 7x? and Who is the Exponential Foundation?
• Lesson 9.5: Migrations, Migrations
• Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.

See also: Students and learners.