In the preceding chapters, we built the framework for our teaching and learning platform.

In Chapter 3, we set up the ability for users to share categorized bookmarks. We also added a view that collects and displays these bookmarks in one central location. The instructions in Chapter 3 provide a baseline set of instructions for two frequently-repeated administrative activities: creating new content types, and creating new views to organize and display content.

In Chapter 4, we created the beginning of the teacher blog. We built on the instructions laid out in Chapter 3 to create the two new content types, and to create the view to organize and display teacher blog posts. To create an assignment calendar for the assignments, we covered how to use a convenient shortcut: cloning a view.

These site-building techniques will be used and referenced as we build out the rest of our site. In this chapter, we will add the functionality to power the student blog; in...