This set of courses contains self-paced content and is designed for those who want to learn how to set up and use our Content Management System (CMS).
PaaS CMS
Get to know Optimizely CMS
Learn about the fundamentals of PaaS CMS and watch these key concept videos to see how PaaS CMS can enhance your content management.
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What is Content Management System (CMS)?
Get to know Content Management System (CMS) from a high-level perspective and tour its interface, functionality and features.
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CMS PaaS Overview
Discover the essentials of CMS PaaS in this overview. Explore the intuitive Dashboard designed for seamless navigation. Familiarize yourself with the Editing Interface, where you can efficiently create and manage content. Learn how to publish your work...
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CMS PaaS Features
Learn about the key features of CMS PaaS that enhance your content management experience. Use Quick Edit for fast updates, publish Pages and Blocks effortlessly, and optimize performance with A/B testing. The External Review gadget facilitates collabor...
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CMS PaaS Projects & Gadgets
Familiarize yourself with CMS PaaS Projects and Gadgets, which offer essential tools for efficient content management. Gain insights into how to effectively utilize these features to enhance your workflow.
Provision your instance
Set your instance up for success with some base knowledge and a little forethought.
Create & manage content
Deliver impactful experiences and streamline content production across any channel.
Learn more
Get more out of your content and know which topics drive conversion.
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Content Management System for administrators (CMS 11)
Learn the fundamentals of Optimizely Content Cloud administration in Optimizely CMS 11. In this three hour course, you’ll learn the terminology, tools, and skills needed to effectively administer Optimizely CMS. This course is ideal for anyone in an ad...
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Content Management System for editors and content creators
Take control of your content’s organization and presentation with Content Cloud Editing. In this two hour course for anyone that wants to improve their editing skills, you’ll learn all about the capabilities of the Optimizely Content Cloud’s editor. Co...
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Content Management System for administrators
This course is for those who will be provided the access and responsibilities found within the administrator user interface. It will prepare you for managing users, groups, permissions and much more.
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Using CMS features & add-ons
From SEO and language versioning, to personalization and experimentation—this set of learning paths is meant to help you navigate and understand CMS features and add-ons.
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Manage sections & flows for Optimizely Content Recommendations
Take Optimizely Content Recommendations to the next level using Sections and Flows. If you’re already familiar with Optimizely Content Recommendations and how it analyzes your site content, this fifteen minute course will explain how Sections and Flows...
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Manage campaigns for Optimizely Email Content Recommendations
Get a high-level overview of Optimizely’s Digital Experience Platform (DXP) that covers how this service fits in with our cloud offerings. We’ll look at the structure, use, and best practices surrounding DXP, along with the need-to-know information tha...
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Optimizely Search & Navigation for editors
Help site customers find what they’re looking for with Optimizely’s Search & Navigation for Editors. Once you set everything up, Guided Search and Adaptive Navigation will help you boost conversions while highlighting selected products. This one hour a...
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Analyze your content with Optimizely Content Intelligence
Learn how to use Optimizely Content Intelligence to better target your content to your customers and monitor performance. With this forty-five minute Content Intelligence course, anyone working with Content Intelligence will learn how to manage and ana...
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Review content with content approvals
Developer training
Learn to build and manage content with PaaS CMS.
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Optimizely CMS 11 - development fundamentals
Master the use and configuration of Optimizely CMS 11. With eighteen hours of developer content, you will enjoy an extensive introduction to CMS 11 fundamentals. Where appropriate, we are sure to mention crucial differences between CMS 11 and CMS 12, s...
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Optimizely CMS 12 - development fundamentals
Master the use and configuration of Optimizely CMS 12. With thirteen hours of developer content, you will enjoy an extensive introduction to CMS 12 fundamentals. Topics include a deep dive into content types and how they are rendered, strategies for ef...
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Customize the Optimizely editing experience
Customize the Optimizely CMS to fit the needs of your business. In this forty minute developer-focused course, you’ll take a deep dive into the display properties of the Optimizely Editor. After a review of how content modifications works at the level ...
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Customize the Optimizely rich text editor
Customize the Optimizely Rich Text Editor to suit your needs. In this one hour course—with thirty minutes of exercises— Optimizely CMS developers will learn how to configure and customize the rich text editor. The course also covers common pain points ...
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Customize and extend the Optimizely user interface
Customize your UI to suit your needs. The Optimizely User Interface is designed to be flexible and extensible so any business can easily configure it to fit a variety of purposes. In this 30 minute course, developers will learn how to best customize an...
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Perform tasks with Optimizely repository APIs
Programmatically perform advanced actions on your Optimizely site. This developer course, consisting of two hours instruction and four hours of exercises, explores Optimizely’s Repository APIs, demonstrating ways that you can use code to modify site be...
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Distribute apps and integrations for Optimizely solutions
Distribute and deploy your custom add-ons and extensions in the Optimizely App Directory. Whether you want to take advantage of extended site functionality designed by someone else, or create and distribute your own add-on to our software, this course ...
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Migrate to Optimizely CMS 12 and Commerce 14
Take the stress out of your migration to Optimizely CMS 12 and Commerce 14. This two-and-a-half hour course is not just for developers, but for anyone preparing for or considering a migration. The course covers how the sweeping .NET changes of recent y...
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Personalize content with Optimizely visitor groups
Learn to define different types of site visitors and personalize their browsing experience with Optimizely Visitor Groups. This developer course covers how to personalize a visitor’s experience on a website. Explore some of the built-in Visitor Group c...
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Integrate external content with Optimizely CMS
Manage external content directly from the Optimizely Content Cloud dashboard. In this half hour developer course, you’ll learn to use partial routers—which display external content on your website using the same templates—and content providers—which wo...
Event recordings
Watch these event recordings to get practical tips and expert advice to make the most of your CMS.
Become Optimizely Certified!
Review the reference materials and complete the certification exam to become Optimizely certified.
