WordPress for Education

Break out of the walls of your learning management system and create open, connected spaces for student learning and engagement with WordPress.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Why WordPress?

• Why WordPress?
• Models for teaching with WordPress
• FERPA and protecting student privacy
• Understanding accessibility implications

2. Establishing Your Course Site

• 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

3. Building Your Course Structure

• 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

4. Syndicating Student Blogs

• Understanding WordPress Syndication
• Configuring FeedWordPress
• Collecting student feeds with Google Forms
• Subscribing to student feeds

5. Testing and Refining

• Excluding syndicated content
• Featuring posts
• Password protecting posts
• Dealing with multiple course sections
• Creating an author account

Conclusion

• Goodbye