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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

Getting an overview of student work


Drupal offers several methods for tracking student work. The simplest method uses Drupal's core Tracker module. The Tracker module will work very well for sites with a small number of users. For sites with larger numbers of users and more complex tracking needs, we can use the Views module. We will discuss various methods of using the Views module later in this chapter.

Using the core Tracker module

To start, make sure that the Tracker module is enabled. Click on Administer | Site building | Modules or navigate to admin/build/modules. In the Core section, make sure that the Tracker module is enabled.

The Tracker module tracks the posts of all users. To see a list of all content created on the site, click on the Recent content link—generated by the Tracker module—in the main navigation menu or navigate to http://yoursite.org/tracker. While this is a useful way to see a quick list of recently created content, it isn't the most useful way of tracking posts...