NOTE: This is a work in progress. We welcome your comments!
Overview of Curricular Platforms
Course hub: starting point for all course sites
Moodle: resources and activities
WordPress: posts and pages
Creating a WordPress Site
- Creating site from Course Hub vs WordPress Add Site page
- Naming conventions for course sites
- Defining access via Settings > Privacy
- Adding Users (including class groups)
- Defining roles for users (especially students)
- Setting up site “home” page
- Choosing a theme and defining layout
- Using a course template
Anatomy of a WordPress Site
- Switching from viewing site to Dashboard
- Adding Posts, Pages and Widgets
- Adding links
- Adding Media (files, images, audio and video)
- Posts vs Pages
Posts
- Adding and editing posts
- Categorizing and tagging posts
- Using posts for blogging and announcements
- Using posts for assignments
- Using categories to organize assignment posts by assignment
- Using Author widget to organize assignment posts by student
Pages
- Adding and editing pages
- Organizing pages by creating sub-pages
- Using pages for course information
- Using pages for assignment descriptions
WordPress + Moodle
- Linking to a Moodle Site
- Assignments
- Assignment description in WordPress
- Assignment submission in Moodle
- Course Resources
- Course information in WordPress
- Course files in Moodle