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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

Summary


The work involved in setting up a backup strategy, and in maintaining your site through security upgrades, can feel overwhelming. However, one thing worse than struggling through setting up a backup strategy is attempting to recover your site after a server crash without a backup strategy.

A backup strategy, combined with a test site, allows you to run your site with fewer worries. The test site also provides a place in which you can experiment with new options without fear of consequences.

Drupal is not a static program. It is constantly changing and updating, and keeping up with those changes is important to keeping your site secure and working well.

In the next chapter we will learn some tips and tricks for working with the Drupal community, including how to troubleshoot and research issues and best practices for giving and receiving help.