WordPress for Education
1h 55mIntermediate2015-10-12
Authors
Chris Mattia
Educator specializing in LMS and ed tech
Course details
Break out of the walls of your learning management system and create open, connected spaces for student learning and engagement with WordPress. Author Chris Mattia explores the best WordPress site designs and plugins for educators, and strategies for teaching online and engaging students in a digital environment. The ideas in this course can apply to face-to-face, blended, and 100% online classes. Start watching to learn how to design an open, connected course site; organize the flow of course content; and syndicate content from student sites.
Learning objectives
Improving WordPress accessibility
Configuring WordPress for a class
Designing a course site
Strategies for choosing a theme
Creating pages, categories, and menus
Managing the flow of course content
Subscribing to student blog feeds
Password-protecting posts
Learning objectives
Improving WordPress accessibility
Configuring WordPress for a class
Designing a course site
Strategies for choosing a theme
Creating pages, categories, and menus
Managing the flow of course content
Subscribing to student blog feeds
Password-protecting posts
Skills covered
WordPressContent Management Systems (CMS)PersonaWeb DevelopmentOpen Source
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
Why WordPress
- Why WordPress
- Models for teaching with WordPress
- FERPA and protecting student privacy
- Understanding accessibility implications
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
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
Syndicating Student Blogs
- Understanding WordPress Syndication
- Configuring FeedWordPress
- Collecting student feeds with Google Forms
- Subscribing to student feeds
Testing and Refining
- Excluding syndicated content
- Featuring posts
- Password protecting posts
- Dealing with multiple course sections
- Creating an author account
Conclusion
- Goodbye