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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

Chapter 4. Creating a Teacher Blog

This chapter covers the details of creating a teacher blog. In this chapter, you will:

  • Set up a text (WYSIWYG) editor

  • Create two content types: one named teacher blog and another named assignments

  • Assign rights to use the text editor and the new content types

  • Create views to display the teacher blog posts and assignments

As a part of this chapter, we will cover adding content into the instructor blog. Once finished, this blog can be used to communicate notes, facts, assignments, and other information to students, parents, and colleagues.

It should be noted that the instructions in this chapter cover many administrative details required in the setup that, once completed, are rarely touched while using the site. The steps covered in this chapter create the tools that will power the instructor blog. Many of these steps are done once and are never carried out again. However, taking the time to do them right, and understanding how to go back and adjust them, as...