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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 content types for the teacher blog


In this section, we will outline how to create two content types used in the teacher blog. This section will refer to the process outlined in Chapter 3, Getting Started. When creating a content type you will need to:

  • Create the content type

  • Add fields to the content type (optional—not all content types require additional fields)

  • Assign a taxonomy to the content type (optional—not all content types will be organized using taxonomy)

  • Assign permissions to the content type

The blog post content type

The blog post content type will be one of the publishing tools available to users in this site. To create this content type, click on the Structure | Content types link, or navigate to admin/structure/types.

As described in Chapter 3, Getting Started, to create a new content type, click on the Add content type link.

For the Identification section, use the following values:

  • Name: Blog post

  • Description: Create a blog post

In the Submission form settings section, the...