Design a WordPress Workshop Kit

Design a reusable set of assets that anyone can use to run a polished WordPress workshop. The Training team provides detailed guidance on planning, hosting, and facilitating workshops. Your kit complements that guidance with ready-made design assets so organizers can focus on teaching instead of designing from scratch.

Reference: Slides Style Guide — the standard for WordPress training slides
Connect: You’ll be working with #training on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ for context on what workshop facilitators need; also join #design for feedback.

Steps

Understand how workshops work. Read through the Online Workshops section of the Training team handbook, including the pages on planning, hosting, and tools for hosting. Watch a few recorded workshops to see how they look and feel in practice.
Identify the gaps. The guidance and process exist, but the design assets don’t. Currently missing are things like a branded slide template, Zoom virtual backgrounds, handout or activity sheet templates, social media graphics for promoting workshops, and a visual checklist for facilitators. Ask in #training what facilitators wish they had.
Create your design kit. Choose a tool you’re comfortable with, such as Google Slides, Figma, or Canva, then create a small set of lightweight, easy-to-customize assets. Your starter kit might include a slide deck template, a Zoom virtual background, a one-page handout template, and a visual facilitator checklist.
Get feedback. Share your work-in-progress in #design for design feedback and in #training for practical feedback from facilitators. Iterate based on what you hear.
Package and share your kit. Make your assets easy to find, download, and customize. Share the final kit in #design and #training with a short description of what’s included and how to use it.

Contribution checklist

Reviewed the Training team’s workshop handbook pages and watched recorded workshops
Kit designed following the Slides Style Guide and Brand Usage Guidelines
Feedback gathered from both #design and #training
Final kit shared in a format anyone can customize

What happens next

The Design and Training teams will review your kit. They may suggest changes or additions. Once finalized, the kit could be linked from the Training team handbook as a resource for future facilitators.

Your kit doesn’t need to cover everything. If it works well, it can grow over time with additional templates, variations, or contributions from other designers. The important thing is giving facilitators a polished starting point.