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Wednesday November 04 2026
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Working with clients and reviews Updated Markdown page
How theme designers run design reviews with clients and editors for an Exponential site - what to review at each stage, reviewing on a preview siteaccess with real content, collecting feedback that can be acted on…
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Working with developers Updated Markdown page
How theme designers and Exponential developers divide the work on a theme - who owns what, the shared vocabulary, working in the theme's Git repository, requests for fields and settings, reviewing templates against…
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Your first day as a theme designer Updated Markdown page
A plan for the first working day of a theme designer new to Exponential - looking at a real site with the right eyes, finding which template drew what, collecting the content classes, and leaving with a list of what to…
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Assessments and practical exercises: course overview Updated Markdown page
The trainer's own assessment material for every Exponential course, how to design fair tests, rubrics and accommodations, written tests with sourced answer keys and practical tasks with rubrics for eleven course areas…
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Module 1: Designing assessments Updated Markdown page
The method behind every test, task and capstone in this course, fair design, sourced answer keys, rubrics, accommodations, the assessment session, feedback and completion certificates in the trainer's own name. About 4…
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Lesson 1.4: Accommodations in assessment Updated Markdown page
Adjust the conditions of a test or practical task, time, format, breaks, tools, language and the keyboard or zoom settings of the administration, so that every learner can show the skill being assessed, without changing…
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Lesson 1.3: Building scoring rubrics for practical tasks Updated Markdown page
Build a scoring rubric with criteria in rows and four levels in columns, describe each level by what the trainer can see on the training installation, set points and a pass rule, and check that two trainers score the…
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Lesson 1.7: Completion certificates you issue in your own name Updated Markdown page
Issue a certificate of completion for a passed assessment in the trainer's or the organization's own name, with honest wording, the course, its modules, the assessment parts and the date, without any claim of official…
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Lesson 1.1: Designing fair assessments Updated Markdown page
Plan an end-of-course assessment that is fair, aligned with the course objectives, honest about its status as the trainer's own material and run on a training installation with the same starting state for every learner…
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Lesson 1.6: Giving feedback on results Updated Markdown page
Give each learner feedback on a test or practical task that names what was shown, what is missing and the help page to read next, deliver a "not yet" result respectfully, and keep results private and only as long as…
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Lesson 1.5: Running an assessment session Updated Markdown page
Run the assessment on the day, prepare identical training installations, brief learners on the rules, keep time, collect evidence safely, handle a broken installation without penalizing the learner, and clean up test…
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Lesson 1.2: Writing written tests with a sourced answer key Updated Markdown page
Write multiple choice and short answer questions that check understanding, with an answer key in which every answer cites the help page that proves it, and keep the key hidden from learners until the test is over. 45…
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Module 2: Assessing the editorial courses Updated Markdown page
Written tests with sourced answer keys and practical tasks with scoring rubrics for the editorial courses, Editors, Exponential Layouts and Exponential Intelligence. About 5 hours 25 minutes if all six are run.
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Lesson 2.2: Editors, practical task Updated Markdown page
A 45-minute practical task for the end of Editors 101, build a small news section with a folder, two articles, an uploaded image and a translation, restore an earlier version and an item from the trash, scored with a…
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Lesson 2.1: Editors, written test Updated Markdown page
A fourteen-question written test for the end of Editors 101, on creating and editing, versions, publishing, the trash, media, languages and search, with an answer key in which every answer cites a help page, and a…
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Lesson 2.6: Exponential Intelligence, practical task Updated Markdown page
A 40-minute practical task for the end of the Exponential Intelligence course, improve an article with the edit form actions and review every suggestion, let the assistant write a draft from the Intelligence tab…
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Lesson 2.5: Exponential Intelligence, written test Updated Markdown page
A twelve-question written test for the end of the Exponential Intelligence course, on drafts and review, permissions, the edit form actions, alternative text, data policy, audit, costs and switching the assistant on…
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Lesson 2.4: Exponential Layouts, practical task Updated Markdown page
A 40-minute practical task for the end of the Exponential Layouts course, create a two-column layout with blocks, keep a draft, publish, change a block's content and design, and find the mapping of a page, scored with a…
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Lesson 2.3: Exponential Layouts, written test Updated Markdown page
A twelve-question written test for the end of the Exponential Layouts course, on layouts, zones, blocks, layout types, mappings, shared layouts, drafts and publishing, with an answer key in which every answer cites a…
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Module 3: Assessing the administration courses Updated Markdown page
Written tests with sourced answer keys and practical tasks with scoring rubrics for the administration courses, Site administration, Search and Multisite. About 6 hours 25 minutes if all six are run.