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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 the podcast content type


The easiest way to organize our podcast within a Drupal site is to create a content type specifically for podcasts, as described in the following steps:

  1. Click on Structure | Content types | Add content type, or navigate to admin/structure/types/add.

  2. Enter Podcast for the Name field, and add the following in the Description field: An audio file. The audio file could be used for adding music, podcasts, or audio clips to your site.

  3. Under Publishing options, uncheck the box next to Promoted to front page, then click on Save and add fields to save your progress.

Adding an audio field to the podcast content type

Once we have set up the basic content type, we will have to add an audio field to it.

  1. Add a new field called Audio File, select File as the FIELD TYPE, and select Audio Upload as the WIDGET type. Click on Save to add the field and continue configuring the field.

  2. The options on the next screen allow you to add files to a podcast node without displaying it to the...