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WordPress for Education

By : Adam Scott
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WordPress for Education

By: Adam Scott

Overview of this book

WordPress is typically known as a platform for blogging. However, the versatility and simplicity of WordPress makes it the perfect solution for the needs of professional educators. WordPress for Education guides readers through the practical applications of WordPress in a classroom setting. Readers will gain an understanding of the WordPress platform and how it can be used to create powerful classroom websites. WordPress for Education guides educators through the process of setting up a typical class website, creating student blogs, and using WordPress to power a learning management system. WordPress for Education provides clear and practical examples for using WordPress within the classroom. It will empower educators to create useful and engaging e-learning websites. Through the examples given in the book, you will gain an understanding of how to use WordPress to build an engaging and easy to update e-learning website. You will also learn about a variety of WordPress plugins that extend its abilities and usefulness in an educational environment, such as creating student blogs, keeping track of classroom events, managing coursework, and developing a classroom social network.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Friend connections


Working in a similar fashion to popular social networks, BuddyPress allows users to request friend connections with one another. Friend connections allow users to see a stream of updates posted only by friends. The usefulness of friends in an education setting will come into play when forming Groups as discussed later in the chapter. For this reason, I advise adding each student as a friend within your BuddyPress site.

To add a friend, visit the Members page of the public WordPress site and click on the Add Friend button to the right of each member's name. This will send a friend request to each student or site user, which they must confirm.

When a student or user has a pending friend request, they will be notified by the Notifications in the site toolbar located at the top the screen. For students to approve friend requests, prompt them to log in to their account and visit the Friends page. The Friends page can be accessed by selecting My Account |Friends | Requests from...