WordPress for Education
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WordPress for Education

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WordPress for Education

About this book

In Detail

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.

Approach

WordPress for Education is full of screenshots, practical examples, step-by-step instructions, and best practices for using WordPress in an educational setting.

Who this book is for

WordPress for Education is written for educators and education personnel interested in implementing WordPress in a classroom setting. You are not required to have previous experience of WordPress or any other content management system.

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WordPress for Education

Table of Contents

WordPress for Education
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why Subscribe?
Free Access for Packt account holders
Preface
What this book covers
Self-hosted WordPress or WordPress.com
Who this book is for
What you need for this book
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Installing and Configuring WordPress
Installing WordPress
Purchased hosting
Installing WordPress with purchased hosting
Finishing the installation
Manually installing WordPress
WordPress overview
Creating posts and pages
Writing a new post
Creating a page
Settings
General Settings
Writing Settings
Reading Settings
Discussion Settings
Media Settings
Privacy Settings
Permalinks
Summary
2. Setting Up Our Class Site
Basics of post and page editing
Previewing and publishing options
Pages
Creating a home page
Making the Home page static
Syllabus page
Deleting the sample page
Posts
Adding a video to a post
Categories and tags
Editing an existing post and adding an image
Adding an image
Editing post categories
Themes
Widgets
Menus
Summary
3. Enhancing WordPress with Plugins
Finding and installing plugins
Managing plugins
Plugins
Preinstalled WordPress plugins
Hello Dolly
Akismet
Education plugins
ScholarPress Courseware
WP Survey and Quiz Tool
Grader
Conversation and communication plugins
Contact Form 7
Semi-Private Comments
IntenseDebate Comments
Disqus
bbPress
Social plugins
WP to Twitter
Simple Facebook Connect
Other Plugins
Jetpack
Calendar
WordPress Mobile Pack
Add Multiple Users for WordPress
Anthologize
Updating plugins
Uninstalling plugins
Summary
4. Enabling a Multisite Network
Before installing
Creating the network
Exploring the Network Admin area
Creating a new site
Installing themes and plugins
Network enabled themes
Network enabled plugins
Network administrator plugins
New Blog Templates
Multisite Plugin Manager
ThreeWP Activity Monitor
Network content
Displaying a list of network sites
Displaying network posts
Summary
5. Creating a Social Network with BuddyPress
WordPress, Multisite, and BuddyPress
Installing BuddyPress
Components
Pages
Permalinks
Theme
Finish
Registering student accounts
Individually registering students
Enabling student self-registration
Activity
Friend connections
Groups
Forums
Group forums
Sitewide forums
Protecting student privacy
Summary
6. BuddyPress Courseware
Installing and configuring BP Courseware
BuddyPress Courseware settings
Global settings
Collaboration settings
Make assignment responses private
Gradebook default grade format
Webservices API integration
Customization
Renaming the groups page
Setting Courses as the site home page
Creating a course
Enabling BP Courseware
Courseware dashboard
Adding course content
Lectures
Assignments
Posting assignments as a teacher
Submitting assignments as a student
Viewing student responses
Gradebook
Bibliography
Schedule and calendar
Teacher and student roles
Help and support
Summary
7. Site Management
Site backups
Site performance
WP Super Cache
Better WP Minify
Site security
Secure WordPress
WP Security Scan
Updating WordPress
Summary
8. WordPress Resources and Plugins
WordPress resources
WordPress Codex
WordPress Support Forum
WordPress Showcase: Education
wp-edu discussion list
Digging into WordPress
Plugin directory
Index

WordPress for Education

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