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Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition - Second Edition

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Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

As social networks become more popular, their role in the classroom has come under scrutiny. Drupal offers a wide variety of useful tools for educators. Within a single Drupal site, you can set up social bookmarking, podcasting, video hosting, formal and informal groups, rich user profiles, and other features commonly associated with social web communities. "Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition" teaches you how to create your own social networking site to advance teaching and learning goals in the classroom, while giving you complete control over features and access. Communicate with students, share learning resources, and track assignments through simple tasks with this hands-on guide.In this book you will learn to install and configure the default Drupal distribution and then extend it to include blogs, bookmarks, a media sharing platform, and discussion forums. The book also covers how to organize your site to easily track student work on the site, and how to control who has access to that information. Additionally, it teaches you how to make the site easy to use, how to maintain the site, and how to ask for and receive help in the Drupal community.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing and configuring Organic Groups


To get started with Organic Groups, we will download and install three modules: Organic Groups, OG Vocabulary, and OG Extras, available at http://drupal.org/project/og, http://drupal.org/project/og_vocab, and http://drupal.org/project/og_extras respectively. The Organic Groups module also requires the Entity API (http://drupal.org/project/entity) and Entity Reference (http://drupal.org/project/entityreference) modules. The Organic Groups UI module, which is part of the Organic Groups project, also requires the Views Bulk Operations module (http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations). Download these modules and upload them to your server as described in the Installing modules and themes section of Chapter 3, Getting Started.

Tip

Throughout this chapter, we will abbreviate Organic Groups to OG. This abbreviation occurs frequently in discussions of Organic Groups that occur on drupal.org.

The OG module works closely with many other modules. In this...