Overview
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Break out of the walls of your learning management system and create open, connected spaces for student learning and engagement with WordPress.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Why WordPress?
- Models for teaching with WordPress
- FERPA and protecting student privacy
- Understanding accessibility implications
- Understanding domains, subdomains, and folders
- Which account?
- Creating a test account on StateU.org
- Installing WordPress with Installatron
- Just enough administration
- Designing a course architecture
- Choosing a course theme
- Building static pages
- Creating categories
- Creating tags
- Creating menus
- Connecting to an LMS
- Creating a test data matrix
- Using the RSS widget for content flow
- Creating a content sidebar with widgets
- Understanding WordPress Syndication
- Configuring FeedWordPress
- Collecting student feeds with Google Forms
- Subscribing to student feeds
- Excluding syndicated content
- Featuring posts
- Password protecting posts
- Dealing with multiple course sections
- Creating an author account
- Goodbye
