Chapter 4. Creating a Teacher Blog
This chapter covers the details of creating a teacher blog. In this chapter, you will:
Set up a text (WYSIWYG) editor
Create two content types: one named teacher blog and another named assignments
Assign rights to use the text editor and the new content types
Create views to display the teacher blog posts and assignments
As a part of this chapter, we will cover adding content into the instructor blog. Once finished, this blog can be used to communicate notes, facts, assignments, and other information to students, parents, and colleagues.
It should be noted that the instructions in this chapter cover many administrative details required in the setup that, once completed, are rarely touched while using the site. The steps covered in this chapter create the tools that will power the instructor blog. Many of these steps are done once and are never carried out again. However, taking the time to do them right, and understanding how to go back and adjust them, as...
