Drupal for Education and E-Learning -- Table of Contents -- Drupal for Education and E-Learning -- 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 -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introducing Drupal -- What is Drupal? -- Drupal - a short historical overview -- What Drupal can do for you -- Drupal terminology -- Taking notes -- Summary -- 2. Installing Drupal -- Assumptions -- The domain -- The web host -- Web server -- PHP version -- MySQL version -- FTP and shell access to your web host -- A local testing environment -- Setting up a local environment using MAMP (Mac only) -- Setting up a local environment using XAMPP (Windows only) -- Configuring your local environment for Drupal -- PHP configuration -- MySQL configuration -- The most effective way versus the easy way -- Installing Drupal - the quick version -- Installing Drupal - the detailed version -- Enabling core modules -- Assigning rights to the authenticated user role -- Summary -- 3. Getting Started -- The core installation -- Core user functionality -- My Account -- Add content -- Log out -- Administrative functionality -- Dashboard -- Content -- Structure -- Appearance -- People -- Modules -- Configuration -- Reports -- Help -- Next steps - building the foundation -- Installing modules and themes -- Files -- Directories -- Core modules and themes -- The sites directory -- Steps for adding modules and themes -- Step 1 - downloading -- Step 2 - decompressing -- Step 3 - uploading -- Step 4 - enabling -- Configuring modules and themes -- Modules -- Themes -- Modules and themes - a summary -- Creating roles.

Creating content types -- Step 1 - creating the content type -- The Name and Description sections -- The Submission form settings page -- The Publishing options page -- The Display settings page -- The Comment settings page -- The Menu settings page -- Step 2 - adding fields -- Step 3 - assigning taxonomies -- Adding a taxonomy to a content type -- Step 4 - assigning permissions -- The result -- Creating content types - summary -- Creating views -- Step 1 - adding a view -- Step 1 (a) - describing the view -- Step 1 (b) - selecting the type of data and filter -- Step 1 (c) - selecting a display type -- Step 1 (d) - setting display type options -- Step 1 (e) - setting the display format -- Step 2 - editing the view -- Step 2 (a) - adding fields -- Configuring fields -- Step 2 (b) - adding/editing filters -- Step 2 (c) - adding/editing contextual filters (optional) -- Step 2 (d) - editing display format (optional) -- Step 2 (e) - setting additional configuration options (optional) -- Step 3 - defining multiple display types (optional) -- Step 3 (a) - overriding the default values (optional) -- Saving your view -- Creating views - a summary -- Summary -- 4. Creating a Teacher Blog -- Installing the text editor -- Uploading and enabling CKEditor -- Setting the proper text formats -- Assigning user rights via roles -- Understanding roles and how they work -- Creating content types for the teacher blog -- The blog post content type -- Adding fields and assigning a taxonomy -- Assigning permissions -- Hey! Why not use the blog module? -- Creating the assignment content type -- Getting started - installing modules -- The assignment content type -- Adding fields -- Ordering fields -- Assigning a taxonomy -- Assigning permissions -- Sample users and testing -- Adding new users -- Section summary -- Adding sample content.

Views for the teacher blog and assignments -- The teacher blog view -- Adding a view -- Editing the view -- Adding fields to the view -- Adding filters -- Adding contextual filters -- Setting the display format -- Setting additional configuration options -- The assignment view -- Editing the default values -- Adding filters -- Adding a title and header -- Editing the calendar display -- Setting the path and menu -- Summary -- 5. Enrolling Students -- Understanding roles and assigning rights -- Assigning rights -- Rights for the student role -- Creating student accounts -- Method 1 - students creating their own accounts -- Student sign-in -- Promoting new members into the student role -- Retrieving the confirmation e-mail -- Method 2 - creating the student accounts -- Customizing the registration process -- The Account Settings page -- The ANONYMOUS USERS section -- The ADMINISTRATOR ROLE section -- The REGISTRATION AND CANCELLATION section -- The PERSONALIZATION section -- Signatures -- Pictures -- The E-mails section -- Additional modules for creating user accounts -- Summary -- 6. Creating the Student Blog -- Setting up the student blog -- Assigning permissions -- Cloning the teacher blog -- Getting interactive -- Seeing who's discussing what -- Enabling and cloning the backlinks view -- Editing the page display -- Removing the page display -- Editing the block display -- Enabling the block -- Seeing it work -- Summary -- 7. Bookmarks -- Assign rights to use bookmarks -- Using bookmarks in the classroom -- Sharing a bookmark -- Bookmark to blog -- Learning goals -- Bookmarks and media literacy -- Bookmarks as part of the ongoing student research -- Learning goals -- Summary -- 8. Podcasting and Images -- Getting Started with Podcasts -- The AudioField module -- Installing and Enabling the AudioField module -- Configuring the Audio module.

The players -- Assigning rights to the AudioField module -- Creating the podcast content type -- Adding an audio field to the podcast content type -- Assigning rights to the podcast content type -- Adjusting the existing views -- Editing the student_blog view -- Editing the teacher_blog view -- Editing the conversations view -- Uploading an audio file -- Using Podcasts in the Class -- Creating podcasts - notes on hardware and software -- Software -- Hardware -- Everyday uses of podcasts -- Using podcasts as a tool in project-based learning -- Ideas for podcasting projects -- Some general examples -- iTunes or not -- Images and image galleries -- Configuring your site to use images -- Step 1 - creating an image style (optional) -- Step 2 - creating gallery taxonomies -- Step 3 - creating the image content type -- Step 4 - edit the display (optional) -- Step 5 - assigning permissions to create and edit images -- Step 6 - creating galleries -- Adding the title field -- Adding the sort criteria -- Adding content relationship -- Changing the contextual filter to taxonomy term -- Step 7 - adjusting views (optional) -- Creating images -- Summary -- 9. Video -- Setting up the video content type -- Installing the embedded media field module -- Creating the video content type -- Step 1 - creating the content type -- Step 2 - adding the Video field -- Configuring the field -- Configuring the Video settings -- Configuring the Field settings -- Ordering the fields -- Step 3 - assigning a taxonomy -- Step 4 - assigning permissions -- Embedding videos -- Embedding from an external site -- Embedding from the local site -- Adjusting the student and teacher blogs -- Hardware and software to create videos -- Hardware -- Cameras and video capturing equipment -- Microphones and audio quality -- Lighting equipment and editing stations.

Copying videos from YouTube/Google video -- Software to create and edit videos -- Desktop software -- Online tools -- Using videos in the classroom -- Student projects -- Teaching with video -- Drupal as a video hosting and processing platform -- Summary -- 10. Forums and Blogs -- Installing the Forum module -- Configuring forums -- Containers and forums -- Displaying multiple content types in a forum -- Assigning permissions to forums -- The relationship between forums and blogs -- Forums -- Strengths -- Concerns -- Blogs -- Strengths -- Concerns -- Forums versus blogs -- Summary -- 11. Social Networks and Extending the User Profile -- Identifying the goals of user profiles -- Using the core User module -- Customizing the core profile -- Adding a last name -- Adding a birthday -- Managing your profile fields -- Adding content to a profile created using the core User module -- Moving beyond the core profile module -- When to look beyond the profile module -- Extending profiles using the field group and field permissions modules -- Building the profile -- Adding fields to the profile -- Creating field groups -- Adding fields to the field groups -- Assigning permissions to view and edit fields -- Assigning rights to view profiles -- Creating an extended profile -- Additional options for social networking and user profiles -- Summary -- 12. Supporting Multiple Classes -- Installing and configuring Organic Groups -- Useful links for Organic Groups -- Administrative links -- Adjusting your site to work with Organic Groups -- Creating group types -- Creating the Class content type -- The Organic Groups fieldset -- Creating the Club content type -- Assigning permissions to group nodes -- Class nodes -- Club nodes -- Setting the options for content types -- Assigning OG fields to group and content types -- Adding fields -- Setting field names and visibility.

OG fields in action.