In this chapter, we have created a miniature course management framework scalable to thousands of courses. We have…
Places for lesson materials, assignments, and calendar events
A course front page that automatically displays the latest homework assignments and announcements
A syllabus that gathers a course summary from individual lesson descriptions
An easy way to keep students up to date with RSS
We've also touched on a few points of pedagogy and information architecture, like the impact of online comments on a class.
If you are in a hurry to get a course management solution up and running, you might want to skip ahead to…
The Styling Your Site chapter if you are satisfied with this functionality but want to improve the markup or CSS a bit
The Creating Forms Fast chapter if you would like to add more sophisticated turn-in capabilities
The Blogs and Forums chapter if you need those content types
The Calendaring chapter to explore more ways of displaying and filtering events