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Training and workshops

The Contentful Learning Center offers both live instructor-led training and self-paced courses.

Live instructor-led training

The Contentful Learning Center has multiple options for learning live directly from expert trainers. There are both introductory, webinar with Q&A style sessions as well as hands-on accelerator courses, designed to get you up to speed and working with Contentful quickly. You can view and enroll in any scheduled session by visiting the Events page in the Learning Center. These courses include:

Contentful Basics - These webinar-style sessions are designed to introduce you to key concepts needed to use Contentful effectively. Within the Basics courses, there are two main categories:

  • Contentful Platform: Getting Started and Intro to Modeling. These focus on the Contentful web app, covering core functionalities, the authoring interface, and the best practices for content modeling in Contentful.

  • Contentful Studio: Studio for Authors and Studio for Developers: Available beginning June 2024, these courses focus on Contentful Studio, introducing the Studio interface, core functionalities, and how to set up Studio for developers.

Accelerator workshops - These interactive, hands-on workshops quickly get you up to speed on critical skills needed to use Contentful effectively. Currently there are two accelerator workshops:

  • Content Authoring Accelerator: Teaches you to navigate Contentful web app features and sharpen your ability to use Contentful for effective digital content management

  • Content Modeling Accelerator: Teaches you how to build efficient, scalable content models using Contentful and show practical implementations that reflect real-world use cases.

Self-paced learning

The Learning Center has self-paced learning courses to learn basics of Contentful and its functionalities, or advanced courses for current Contentful users who want to expand their skillset. You can browse all courses or follow a learning path for your role, curated by our team to give you the right information to work effectively in your job.

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Contentful Basics is a curated learning path for anyone new to Contentful looking for an overview of the product and aren't sure where to start.

The Learning Center also has option to learn by role, getting you up to speed on the skills you will need to do your job in Contentful. These roles are content editor (for creating content in Contentful), developer (for building a project with Contentful), designer (for those involved in content model and content strategy with Contentful), and marketer (for those in marketing and/or work with developers to implement Contentful).