E-learning courses and certifications

Are you new to the headless world? Then you came to the right place. Get familiar with the basic headless concepts to make your transition to Kontent.ai as smooth as possible.

You can think of this course as Headless CMS 101, serving as an introduction for content creators and marketers alike.

What kinds of content will you create in a headless CMS? How will the transition to headless change how you think about content? This course will show you how to craft your content without thinking about formatting or the design.

We'll show you how to focus on what's important and save time and nerves as a content creator with a headless CMS. Spoiler alert, reusing content is the tool to get there.

Transitioning to a headless CMS doesn't change what you do but how you do it. The how of content creation is something you can adjust to your liking. Let's now leave behind the content itself and rather focus on how you can tailor your content creation experience.

Free yourself from copy-pasting your content across various services and achieve your goals more efficiently. This course will guide you through what your role means in Kontent.ai and how you can influence the setup of your work environment in Kontent.ai.

Content modeling (also called content engineering) is a relatively new discipline, and as with any new thing, it takes time for it to become mainstream. Every change takes some time. 

This also means people might be doubting the usefulness of a content modeling phase in your projects for the time being, and that's fine. It's important to know how to convince these people of the usefulness of a proper content model.

Learn how to structure your content using basic content modeling skills. In the next 20 minutes, we'll show you how to start with content modeling in Kontent.ai. 

You will get familiar with content type creation as well as the usage of linked items and content snippet elements.

New to Kontent.ai? Hello and welcome, you're at the right place to learn how to navigate Kontent.ai, find the content you need quickly, or create your first content item!

Ready to make your first creative steps in Kontent.ai? Go from preparing your first draft to ready for publishing in just a few hours! Explore how to compose content efficiently and learn about the collaboration options that'll make your life easier. Add comments, delegate tasks, or suggest changes, all within Kontent.ai.

Content reuse is often mentioned as one of the advantages of modular content platforms or headless CMS in general. But what does it actually mean?

In this 5-minute course, you'll see a practical example of a banner that should be displayed in certain places but requires content adjustment later. When you can reuse content, it's a matter of no time.

Metadata creates semantic relationships in content. Metadata supports internal and external content discovery, personalized content suggestions, and can help improve your customers' experience with your content.

Base your metadata around your company vision, goals, personas, and overall strategy. Explore how to implement personalization comprehensively and how to decide on what's the most useful metadata for your content.

Learn how to structure your content using basic content modeling skills. In the next 20 minutes, we'll show you how to start with content modeling in Kontent.ai. 

You will get familiar with content type creation as well as the usage of linked items and content snippet elements.

Visual editors and various page builders in traditional CMSs give content creators and marketers almost total control over the look of the front-end website or app. Headless CMSs like Kontent.ai don't provide this kind of control by design and intention.

However, creators can influence the look and feel of their content also in headless CMSs. Discover what the options are and how they're different from traditional visual editors.

Discover how to spot and fix possible issues within a content model. Learn why content audits and optimization are vital to your business. These tips are also great for ongoing content maintenance.

Are you a developer who's been tasked to create a content model for your organization? Find out how to avoid pitfalls others have unwillingly explored before you.

Take this course to discover how content modeling under a headless CMS, such as Kontent.ai, can make your life easier and help you accomplish goals that may seem complicated and expensive. In the three lessons in this course, you'll see that with a properly created content model in Kontent.ai, you can manage complex tasks that'd require expensive 3rd-party services in traditional monolithic CMSs.

Content modeling (also called content engineering) is a relatively new discipline, and as with any new thing, it takes time for it to become mainstream. Every change takes some time. 

This also means people might be doubting the usefulness of a content modeling phase in your projects for the time being, and that's fine. It's important to know how to convince these people of the usefulness of a proper content model.

Most organizations use multiple channels or multiple websites for their business. Usually, content for these apps ends up being hosted in multiple different CMSs, which leads to issues with content reuse, duplication, and inconsistent brand presentation. 

Kontent.ai frees you from all these issues by being your central content hub where you can store all your content, no matter the channel you use it for.

Uncover what's behind content modeling and why it's important to use modular content in enterprise projects. You'll get a sneak peek into the decision-making process behind creating modular content and some tips on what to be careful about.

Web Spotlight is how Kontent.ai keeps the headless benefits but enables content creators to see and control their project as a website page tree.

This course will walk you through the basics of Web Spotlight configuration. You'll see activating Web Spotlight, adjustment of default content types, and setting up the page tree.

A large project means a lot of content items. And that means an easy way to get lost. Solution? Organize the content with taxonomies to find what you need much more easily. Discover how to design a good functional taxonomy and identify the right use cases for them.

Let’s explore the why of content modeling before you dive deep into how. This is the right place for you to start your content modeling adventure and understand the purpose of content modeling to avoid the most common mistakes.

Get practical, useful tips for functional and easy-to-use content model. You'll learn in theory what aspects are important to make your content model successful. Then, you'll see how to turn the theory into an actual content model.

Taxonomies are a powerful tool for both your internal needs and customers' desires. They can help you achieve a better content strategy and more efficient usage of Kontent.ai. As an author, you can avoid content duplication and find relevant content more quickly. As a customer, they can use taxonomies for faceted search and visual tagging of your content.

This course will showcase how to use taxonomies in practice across Kontent.ai.

Content reuse is often mentioned as one of the advantages of modular content platforms or headless CMS in general. But what does it actually mean?

In this 5-minute course, you'll see a practical example of a banner that should be displayed in certain places but requires content adjustment later. When you can reuse content, it's a matter of no time.

Discover how to spot and fix possible issues within a content model. Learn why content audits and optimization are vital to your business. These tips are also great for ongoing content maintenance.

Headless CMS is an answer to not only the technological challenges but to content challenges as well. That's because content is no longer about long marketing or technical communication ending up in PDFs.

However, enterprises often don't know where to start and how to adapt to these changes. The key point here is to establish a good content strategy—from content operations to content governance and content marketing.

While enterprises have managed to create great content for a personalized user experience, they often spend a lot of time and money in creating the same type of content again and again, duplicating efforts, and repeating their processes. All this because they lack a mature approach to content management.

Find out how to avoid this by learning why maturity is an important topic, how to assess your organization's maturity, and ways to improve it.

Use microservices and a headless CMS to shorten your time to market. Learn how easy it is to integrate other services with Kontent.ai and see examples of why Kontent.ai is the key to your digital transformation.

Most organizations use multiple channels or multiple websites for their business. Usually, content for these apps ends up being hosted in multiple different CMSs, which leads to issues with content reuse, duplication, and inconsistent brand presentation. 

Kontent.ai frees you from all these issues by being your central content hub where you can store all your content, no matter the channel you use it for.

When you're not limited to traditional CMS technology, how does displaying content work with headless? That's the main focus of this course. The main developer's output is creating a front-end application, and that's what Delivery API is for.

This course will show you the basics of Delivery REST API using JavaScript SDK and a generator that creates strongly-typed models for your cozy working environment.

When switching an existing CMS for another, moving content from the old to a new CMS is a step that happens almost every time. So, what does the migration process look like?

This course will guide you through our sample boilerplate migration scripts that can help you ease into migration scripts suitable for your organization. In the end, you can also use these scripts to import and export content for your backups.

Web Spotlight is how Kontent.ai keeps the headless benefits but enables content creators to see and control their project as a website page tree.

This course will walk you through the basics of Web Spotlight configuration. You'll see activating Web Spotlight, adjustment of default content types, and setting up the page tree.

Providing the proper permissions to the right people is always tricky because there are many different aspects and operations. Should this role access that type of content in this language? And should that role be allowed to edit this content?

This course will show you an overview of what Kontent.ai can restrict and where you can set up the permissions.

Triggering automated actions is something you can achieve when using webhooks. Automating content item translation, syncing content between services, or automating sending of newsletters are just some of the possibilities you have with webhooks.

This course will show you how to work with webhooks and your codebase. You'll see an example of how to use webhooks to modify the content with Management API.

Do you work in business development, or are you managing partnerships? Designed to help you grow your business, the Kontent.ai Business Qualification is here to reinforce your knowledge of key product features and help you build confidence in identifying potential opportunities.

The exam tests whether you understand the Kontent.ai capabilities and best-fit scenarios. Namely, it covers the following areas:

• Subscription management and pricing
• General product knowledge and terminology
• Collaboration and content publishing
• Technology and integrations

We recommend looking at the product website and getting familiar with the pricing page and FAQs to gain a basic overview and then read through the Learn portal.

Exam format

• The Business Qualification exam is a 30-minute online test.
• There are 20 questions with one correct answer.
• To pass the test, you need a minimum score of 80%.
• There is no penalization for wrong answers.

If you don't pass the exam, you can retake the exam when you feel confident enough (after 24 hours at a minimum).

The exam and its time countdown will begin when you click the start button. Good luck!

Become a Kontent.ai Certified Developer and set yourself apart from an everyday developer! The exam tests whether you understand the Kontent.ai platform for typical scenarios in these areas:

• Terminology and concepts
• Architecture – features and infrastructure
• APIs, SDKs, sample apps, boilerplates, and static-site generators
• Content modeling
• Subscriptions, projects, and collaboration

We recommend reading through the Learn portal incl. the API reference. Look also at the product website to gain a basic product overview and some trial or real-world experience.

The exam is platform-agnostic; we don't test any language-specific knowledge.

Exam format

• The Developer Certification exam is a 40-minute online test.
• There are 40 questions with one correct answer.
• To pass the test, you need a minimum score of 80%.
• There is no penalization for wrong answers.

If you don't pass the exam, you can retake the exam when you feel confident enough (after 24 hours at a minimum).

The exam and its time countdown will begin when you click the start button. Good luck!