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Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition

You're reading from   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.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162766
Length 390 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introducing Drupal FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Drupal 3. Getting Started 4. Creating a Teacher Blog 5. Enrolling Students 6. Creating the Student Blog 7. Bookmarks 8. Podcasting and Images 9. Video 10. Forums and Blogs 11. Social Networks and Extending the User Profile 12. Supporting Multiple Classes 13. Tracking Student Progress 14. Theming and User Interface Design 15. Backup, Maintenance, and Upgrades 16. Working Effectively in the Drupal Community Index

Changing settings via the admin menu


Between creating custom menus and blocks, and the various options available through the administrative screens, you have a fair amount of control over the look and feel of your site. In this section, we will look at these options.

The Site information page

Navigate to the Site information page by clicking on Configuration | Site information, or by navigating to admin/config/system/site-information.

This page contains some basic options that can be customized for your site.

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, Site name and Slogan appear on every page of the site.

Default front page has been covered earlier in this chapter.

Much like you did with the Default front page, you can create pages that users will see when a page can't be found, or when a user is not allowed to see the page under the Error Pages section.

Theme settings

Theme settings can be set globally and also individually within a theme. If you want, you can allow users to choose their own theme...

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