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Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition
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Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition: You don't need to be a techie to build a community-based website for your school. With this guide to Drupal you'll be able to create an online learning and sharing space for your students and colleagues, quickly and easily. , Second Edition

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Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition

Chapter 2. Installing Drupal

This chapter describes how to install the base Drupal application called Drupal core. By the end of this chapter, you will have a new Drupal site installed and ready to use.

Assumptions


To get Drupal up and running, you will need all of the following:

  • A domain

  • A web host

  • Access to the web host's filesystem

    or

  • You need a local testing environment, which takes care of the first three things

For building sites, either a web host or a local testing environment will meet your needs. A site built on a web-accessible domain can be shared via the Internet, whereas sites built on local test machines will need to be moved to a web host before they can be used for your course. The process of backing up and moving sites is covered in Chapter 15, Backup, Maintenance, and Upgrades.

Note

In these instructions, we are assuming the use of phpMyAdmin, an open source, browser-based tool, for administering your database. A broad range of similar tools exist, and these general instructions can be used with most of these other tools. Information on phpMyAdmin is available at http://www.phpmyadmin.net; information on other browser-based database administration tools can be found at http:...

The domain


The domain is the address on the Web from where people can access your site. If you are building this site as part of your work, you will probably be using the domain associated with your school or organization. If you are hosting this on your own server, you can buy a domain for under US $10.00 a year. Enter purchase domain name in Google, and you will have a plethora of options.

The web host


Your web host provides you with the server space on which to run your site. Within many schools, your website will be hosted by your school. In other environments, you might need to arrange for your own web host by using a hosting company.

In selecting a web host, you need to be sure that they run software that meets or exceeds the recommended software versions.

Web server

Drupal is developed and tested extensively in an Apache environment. Drupal also runs on other web servers, including Microsoft IIS and Nginx.

PHP version

Drupal 7 will run on PHP 5.2.5 or higher; however, PHP 5.3 is recommended. The Drupal 8 release will require PHP 5.3.10.

MySQL version

Drupal 7 will run on MySQL 5.0.15 or higher, and requires the PHP Data Objects (PDO) extension for PHP. Drupal 7 has also been tested with MariaDB as a drop-in replacement, and Version 5.1.44 or greater is recommended.

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PDO is a consistent way for programmers to write code that interacts with the database. You can find out more...

FTP and shell access to your web host


Your web host should also offer FTP access to your web server. You will need FTP (or SFTP) access in order to upload the Drupal codebase to your web space. Shell access, or SSH access, is not essential for basic site maintenance. However, SSH access can simplify maintaining your site, so contracting with a web host that provides SSH access is recommended.

A local testing environment


Alternatively, you can set up a local testing environment for your site. This allows you to set up Drupal and other applications on your computer. A local testing environment can be a great tool for learning a piece of software. Fortunately, open source tools can automate the process of setting up your testing environment.

PC users can use XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org) to set up a local testing environment; Mac users can use MAMP (http://www.mamp.info).

If you are working in a local testing environment set up via XAMPP or MAMP, you have all the pieces you need to start working with Drupal: your domain, your web host, the ability to move files into your web directory, and phpMyAdmin.

Setting up a local environment using MAMP (Mac only)

While Apple's operating system includes most of the programs required to run Drupal, setting up a testing environment can be tricky for inexperienced users. Installing MAMP allows you to create a preconfigured local environment...

The most effective way versus the easy way


There are many different ways to install Drupal. People familiar with working via the command line can install Drupal very quickly without an FTP client or any web-based tools to create and administer databases.

The instructions in this book are geared towards people who would rather not use the command line. These instructions attempt to get you through the technical pieces as painlessly as possible, to speed up the process of building a site that supports teaching and learning.

Installing Drupal – the quick version


The following steps will get you up and running with your Drupal site. This quick-start version gives an overview of the steps required for most setups. A more detailed version follows immediately after this section.

Once you are familiar with the setup process, installing a Drupal site takes between five to ten minutes.

  1. Download the core Drupal codebase from http://drupal.org/project/drupal.

  2. Extract the codebase on your local machine.

  3. Using phpMyAdmin, create a database on your server. Write down the name of the database.

  4. Using phpMyAdmin, create a user on the database using the following SQL statement:

    GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER
    ON databasename.*
    TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
  5. You will have created the databasename in step 3; write down the username and password values, as you will need them to complete the install.

  6. Upload the Drupal codebase to your web folder.

  7. Navigate to the URL of your site. Follow...

Installing Drupal – the detailed version


This version goes over each step in more detail and includes screenshots.

  1. Download the core Drupal codebase from http://drupal.org/project/drupal.

  2. Extract the codebase on your local machine.

    Tip

    The Drupal codebase (and all modules and themes) are compressed into a tarball, or a file that is first tarred, and then gzipped. Such compressed files end in .tar.gz.

    On Macs and Linux machines, tar.gz files can be extracted automatically using tools that come preinstalled with the operating system. On PC's, you can use 7-zip, an open source compression utility available at http://www.7-zip.org.

  3. In your web browser, navigate to your system's URL for phpMyAdmin. If you are using a different tool for creating and managing your database, use that tool to create your database and database user.

  4. As shown in the following screenshot, create the database on your server. Click on the Create button to create your database.

    Tip

    Store your database name in a safe place. You...

Enabling core modules


In Chapter 3, Getting Started, we will look at the functionality of Core Drupal. In preparation for that section, we will look at the modules that come with core Drupal.

For a full description of the modules included in Drupal core, see http://drupal.org/node/1283408.

To see the modules included in Drupal core, navigate to Modules or admin/modules.

As shown in the following screenshot, the Standard installation profile enables the most commonly used core modules. (For clarity, we have divided the screenshot of the single screen in two parts.)

Assigning rights to the authenticated user role


Within your Drupal site, you can use roles to assign specific permissions to groups of users. As described in the brief glossary in Chapter 1, Introducing Drupal, Drupal comes with two default roles: the anonymous user and the authenticated user. Anonymous users are all people visiting the site who are not site members; all site members (that is, all people with a username and password) belong to the authenticated user role.

Tip

Creating additional roles is covered in Chapter 3, Getting Started; assigning granular rights to users via roles is discussed in more detail in Chapter 5, Enrolling Students.

To assign rights to specific roles, navigate to People | Permissions | Roles or admin/people/permissions/roles.

As shown in the preceding screenshot, click on the edit permissions link for authenticated users.

Assign authenticated users the following rights:

  • The Comment module: Authenticated users can see comments and post comments. These rights have...

Summary


In this chapter, we installed the core Drupal codebase, enabled some core modules, and assigned rights to the authenticated user role. We are now ready to start building a feature-rich site that will help support teaching and learning. In the next chapter, we will take a look around your new site and begin to get familiar with how to make your site do what you want.

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  • Create a powerful tool for communication among teachers, students, and the community with minimal programming knowledge
  • Produce blogs, online discussions, groups and a media hosting platform using Drupal
  • Step-by-step instructions in a teacher-friendly approach; creating your classroom website will be an enjoyable task

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As social networks become more popular, their role in the classroom has come under scrutiny. Drupal offers a wide variety of useful tools for educators. Within a single Drupal site, you can set up social bookmarking, podcasting, video hosting, formal and informal groups, rich user profiles, and other features commonly associated with social web communities. "Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition" teaches you how to create your own social networking site to advance teaching and learning goals in the classroom, while giving you complete control over features and access. Communicate with students, share learning resources, and track assignments through simple tasks with this hands-on guide.In this book you will learn to install and configure the default Drupal distribution and then extend it to include blogs, bookmarks, a media sharing platform, and discussion forums. The book also covers how to organize your site to easily track student work on the site, and how to control who has access to that information. Additionally, it teaches you how to make the site easy to use, how to maintain the site, and how to ask for and receive help in the Drupal community.

Who is this book for?

If you are an teacher, tutor or an educator who wants to build a website for your classroom, be it elementary or any higher education, "Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition" will guide you in achieving your goal at every step. No experience with programming languages, HTML, or CSS is needed to understand the examples in this book.

What you will learn

  • Build an intuitive structure to allow students and teachers to find relevant content by creating blogs for both teachers and students
  • Create roles and permissions for controlling access to different parts of the site
  • Share and manage bookmarks, podcasts, images, and video to support teaching and learning
  • Foster discussion and communication among teachers, students, and also the larger school community to collaborate on projects
  • Support multiple classes within the same site
  • Publish assignments for students in your courses, and track student responses to those assignments
  • Learn to exchange help with the Drupal community
  • Discover how to backup and maintain your site once it is built
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Introducing Drupal Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Installing Drupal Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Started Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating a Teacher Blog Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Enrolling Students Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating the Student Blog Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Podcasting and Images Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Social Networks and Extending the User Profile Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Supporting Multiple Classes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Drupal for Education and elearning by James G Robertson and Bill FitzgeraldOne of the commonalities with packt's Drupal titles is that whilst covering a variety of themes, they often include a lot of basic material that is included in all titles. This makes the titles great for those looking to cover a particular theme or topic from start to finish, but for those looking for more depth (or reviewing titles) you will spend some time reading through familiar territory such as installing, modules, site maintenance etc. On one hand covering the basics each time enables the writers to put topics in appropriate context for their audience, but on the other, it was could be a nice idea to sell smaller titles stripped down to the basics that only cover completely relevant topics.Anyway, enough of that tanget."Drupal for Education and elearning" is basically a title that describes how to configure several modules to best appeal to a school audience, in this case blogs, groups, submitting assessments and presenting multimedia content, often tied into what you might want to do this and how it potentially ties into a school program. It does this by introducing modules such as views, organic groups, media and concepts such as fields, display modes, entities and relationships.The book also delves into some more complex topics such as PHP snippets and command line interactions that feel a little forced in for good measure, but they do at least hint at the future potential of your website.All in all a great introductory guide for those in education looking to explore Drupal who aren't afraid of delving into the deep end after some brief paddling.
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