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Wednesday November 04 2026
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Grading your own work Updated Markdown page
How learners, study groups and teachers grade the study projects - the four common criteria scored 0 to 3, project-specific checks, grade bands, self and peer review, feedback that helps, and an honest statement of what…
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Help pages by topic, for students Updated Markdown page
A topic index for learners into the rest of the Exponential help - installing, editing, content model, templates and design, layouts, languages, search, users and roles, extensions and development, the REST API…
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How to study with the help Updated Markdown page
Study habits that work with the Exponential help - how the help is organized, the read, do, check loop, a study installation of your own, notes and a study journal, reviewing with the trainers' quizzes, and what to do…
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Improving the help as a student Updated Markdown page
How learners improve the Exponential help - why learners find the best documentation bugs, the quick way with Edit on GitHub, the thorough way with a clone, the front matter and style rules of help pages, what the GNU…
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Installing a study site in one command Updated Markdown page
A learner's walk through the documented quick start - get the code with Composer, install on SQLite with exp:install, serve the site with the php engine, sign in, change the password - with the expected output of each…
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Installing from Git clones for study Updated Markdown page
How a developer student installs Exponential as Git clones with their full history, following Develop with Git - the one Composer setting, cloning the kernel, your own branch, installing the site, checking that every…
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Installing with the setup wizard Updated Markdown page
A learner's guide to the browser setup wizard - how it starts, the fifteen pages and what a study site should enter on each, what the wizard writes, what it teaches you about an installation, and how it differs from the…
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Keeping a study journal Updated Markdown page
A simple study journal for learning Exponential - what to record for each session, a template you can copy, how to keep it in Git next to your study site, what never belongs in it, and how the journal later becomes part…
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Learning path: administrator Updated Markdown page
A step-by-step learning path for future site administrators, built from existing help pages and guides - installing, siteaccesses and settings, users and roles, sections, languages, caches, cronjobs, logs, security…
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Learning path: designer Updated Markdown page
A step-by-step learning path for design and front-end students, built from existing help pages - what a design is, the design cascade, the pagelayout, templates and overrides, stylesheets and scripts, accessibility and…
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Learning path: developer Updated Markdown page
A step-by-step learning path for future Exponential developers, built from existing help pages and guides - a development installation from Git clones, the content model, the template language, settings, fetch…
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Learning path: editor Updated Markdown page
A step-by-step learning path for future editors, built from existing help pages - signing in, the content tree, creating and editing, media, publishing and versions, search, translations and pages with Exponential…
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Learning the template language Updated Markdown page
A study plan for Exponential's template language (eZ TPL) - what it is, a first template to type, the five constructs to learn first, a reading order through the template language and designer pages, practice drills on…
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Names and history for learners Updated Markdown page
The names a learner meets and how to use them - Exponential, 7x, the Exponential Foundation, Velocity, Exponential Layouts, Exponential Intelligence, Exponential Basic - the short history from 1999 to today, why kernel…
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Project 1: a content class of your own Updated Markdown page
Study project 1 - design and create a content class of your own (a club event) with the class editor, choose datatypes, set required fields and an object name pattern, create and publish objects of it, and hand in a…
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Project 2: a small site structure Updated Markdown page
Study project 2 - plan and build the content tree of a small site (a student club) with folders, articles and images, order the sub items, add a second location, hide and restore content, work with drafts and versions…
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Project 3: a template override Updated Markdown page
Study project 3 - find the design of your public siteaccess, see which template renders a page, make an override for one content class with the template editor and then as files with an override.ini rule, write the…
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Project 4: a page with layouts Updated Markdown page
Study project 4 - build a landing page for your student club with Exponential Layouts - choose a layout type, add and configure blocks in zones, work with drafts, publish, map the layout to one page, link a zone to a…
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Project 5: a multilingual site Updated Markdown page
Study project 5 - add a second content language, translate part of your club site, decide the main language and always-available items, make a siteaccess show the language with SiteLanguageList, check what visitors see…
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Project 6: search that finds the right things Updated Markdown page
Study project 6 - learn how the built-in search engine indexes your content, plan which attributes of your classes are searchable, change one flag, rebuild the index with updatesearchindex.php, compare search results…