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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

Adjusting your site to work with Organic Groups


Now that we have installed OG, we need to make some configuration changes to use the group functionality effectively. As we make this shift, it will help if we adjust our perspective to think about the content differently. Before we installed OG, content was created within the site and generally displayed via a view or a menu. Now, with OG installed, content is obviously still posted within the site, but it can also be contained within one or more groups.

In the Drupal 6 version of OG, groups were created by creating nodes of designated content types. In the Drupal 7 version, groups can be created using any entity.

Note

Entities are chunks of content in Drupal 7. Nodes, users, and taxonomy terms are all entities. Bundles are implementations of entity types. For example, the content types are bundles of node entity types. You can learn more about these terms (and many other Drupal terms) at http://drupal.org/glossary.

Since it is still possible...