Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition

You don't need to be a techie to build a community-based website for your school. With this guide to Drupal you'll be able to create an online learning and sharing space for your students and colleagues, quickly and easily.

Key Features

• Create a powerful tool for communication among teachers, students, and the community with minimal programming knowledge
• Produce blogs, online discussions, groups and a media hosting platform using Drupal
• Step-by-step instructions in a teacher-friendly approach; creating your classroom website will be an enjoyable task

Book Description

What you will learn

• Build an intuitive structure to allow students and teachers to find relevant content by creating blogs for both teachers and students
• Create roles and permissions for controlling access to different parts of the site
• Share and manage bookmarks, podcasts, images, and video to support teaching and learning
• Foster discussion and communication among teachers, students, and also the larger school community to collaborate on projects
• Support multiple classes within the same site
• Publish assignments for students in your courses, and track student responses to those assignments
• Learn to exchange help with the Drupal community
• Discover how to backup and maintain your site once it is built

Who this book is for

If you are an teacher, tutor or an educator who wants to build a website for your classroom, be it elementary or any higher education, "Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition" will guide you in achieving your goal at every step. No experience with programming languages, HTML, or CSS is needed to understand the examples in this book.