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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

Asking questions


If your research doesn't get you what you need, then it's time to start asking questions. To begin unraveling your issue, read through the FAQ at http://drupal.org/troubleshooting. If your answer is not covered here, then it's time to start asking questions.

Support forums

The support forums, available at http://drupal.org/forum, are a good place to start asking for help when you need it.

When asking questions in the forum (or really, in any of the support areas for Drupal) you can take the following measures to make it easier for people to help you:

  • Describe the research you undertook prior to asking the question. Did you search using Google? Did you look at the issue queue? Were there any other forum threads or handbook pages that seemed to give some of the information you need? If so, give links of those pages. The more detailed you can be in your question, the more specific people can be when responding.

  • Ask, don't demand. The overwhelming majority of people responding to...