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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

Creating views


The Views module allows site administrators to sort and display content created on the site. The Views module is incredibly flexible, but initially the process of creating views can seem daunting.

In this section, we will examine the basic steps that you will follow as you create different views on your site. Although each view will vary depending on what you are trying to show, the steps outlined here provide the basis for getting started.

To create a view, follow these steps:

  1. Add a view and follow these steps:

    1. Describe the view.

    2. Select the type of data and filters.

    3. Select a display type.

    4. Set display type options.

    5. Set the display format.

  2. Edit the view and follow these steps:

    1. Add fields.

    2. Add/edit filters.

    3. Add/edit contextual filters (optional).

    4. Edit display format (optional).

    5. Set additional configuration options (optional).

  3. Define multiple display types (optional) and follow these steps:

    1. Override the default values (optional).

In this example, we will create a view that displays bookmarks...