Chapter 6. Creating the Student Blog
In the preceding chapters, we built the framework for our teaching and learning platform.
In Chapter 3, Getting Started, we set up the ability for users to share categorized bookmarks. We also added a view that collects and displays these bookmarks in one central location. The instructions in that chapter provided a baseline set of instructions for two frequently-repeated administrative activities, such as creating new content types and creating new views to organize and display content.
In Chapter 4, Creating a Teacher Blog, we created the beginning of the teacher blog. We built on the instructions laid out in Chapter 3, Getting Started, to create two new content types, and to create the view to organize and display teacher blog posts. To create an assignment calendar for the assignments, we covered how to use a convenient shortcut: cloning a view.
These site-building techniques will be used and referenced to as we build out the rest of our site. In this...
