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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)

Registering student accounts


In order for students to utilize the social networking features of BuddyPress, they will need registered user accounts. If using a multisite network to create a network of student sites, our students will already have accounts and we may proceed past this step.

In the event that students need to be registered as new users, we may either individually add students ourselves or enable student self-registration.

Individually registering students

As the site administrator, we can add new student user accounts individually. While time consuming, this provides us with the greatest amount of control over the registration process.

To create a new user account:

  1. 1. Within WordPress, hover over Users, choose Add New.

  2. 2. In the Add New User portion of the screen, enter a username and an e-mail address.

  3. 3. Leave the user role as Subscriber. This will allow the student to interact with our site, but not make changes and edits to the site content.

  4. 4. Click on the Add New User button...