WordPress for education : create interactive and engaging e-learning websites with WordPress / Adam D. Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Adam D.

Series:

Community education distilled.

Open source : community education distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

WordPress (Electronic resource).

Educational Web sites.

Internet in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Pub. Ltd., 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Scott Adam: Adam D. Scott is an educator, designer, digital book developer, husband, and father living in Connecticut. He has been a classroom teacher for six years, where he focuses on web technologies with project based outcomes. Adam writes about the intersection of design, technology, and learning on his personal site, www. adamdscott. com.

Summary:

Create interactive and engaging elearning websites with WordPress

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 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; Chapter 2: Setting up our Class Site; Basics of post and page editing

Previewing and publishing optionsPages; 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; Edit an existing post and add an image; Adding an image; Editing post categories; Themes; Widgets; Menus; Summary; Chapter 3: Enhancing WordPress with Plugins; Finding and installing plugins; Managing plugins; Plugins; Pre-installed WordPress plugins; Hello Dolly; Akismet; Education plugins; ScholarPress Courseware; WP Survey and Quiz Tool; Grader; Conversation and communication plugins; Contact Form 7

Semi-Private CommentsIntenseDebate 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; Chapter 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 contentDisplaying a list of network sites; Displaying network posts; Summary; Chapter 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; Chapter 6: BuddyPress Courseware; Installing and configuring BP Courseware; BuddyPress Courseware settings; Global settings

Collaboration settingsMake 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; Chapter 7: Site Management; Site backups; Site performance; WP Super Cache

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Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613714237

9781280872921

1280872926

9781849518215

1849518211

OCLC:

797917403