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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 video content type


When creating the video content type, we will refer to the process outlined in Chapter 3, Getting Started. When creating a content type, you will need to:

  1. Create the content type.

  2. Add fields to the content type. In this case, we will add the field that will contain the embedded video.

  3. Assign a taxonomy to the content type. In this case, we will allow the video content type to be organized or described using the Keyword taxonomy.

  4. Assign permissions to the content type. In our example, both the student and teacher role will be assigned permissions over videos.

Step 1 – creating the content type

Click on Structure | Content types or navigate to admin/structure/types. Click on the Add content type link. In the Identification section, use the following values:

  • Name: Video

  • Type: Video

  • Description: Embed video in your site

  • In the Submission form settings section, the Explanation or submission guidelines option can be set to

Click on the Select media button to upload a video...