Learning portal

From PepperAlley Wiki

Create a learning portal for tutorials, howtos, podcasts, and other materials that will educate and empower consumers, content providers, and producers.

• Produce and aggregate materials
• Openly syndicate and distribute
• Present in multiple formats (audio, video, interactive)
• Could be the basis for a learning/training style Drupal distribution

Contents 1 Development environment 2 Admin settings 2.1 Content management 2.1.1 Categories 2.1.2 Content templates 2.1.3 Content types 2.1.4 Forums 2.1.5 News aggregator 2.1.6 Post settings 2.1.7 RSS publishing 2.2 Site building 2.2.1 Blocks 2.2.2 Contact form 2.2.3 Menus 2.2.4 Modules 2.2.4.1 Core 2.2.4.2 Contributed 2.2.5 Panels 2.2.6 Themes 2.2.7 Views 2.3 Site configuration 2.3.1 Administration theme 2.3.2 Blog APIs 2.3.3 Buddylist 2.3.4 Clean URLs 2.3.5 Distributed authentication 2.3.6 Donations 2.3.7 Freelinking 2.3.8 Helptip Settings 2.3.9 HTTP authentication 2.3.10 Image cache 2.3.11 Input formats 2.3.12 Modr8 settings 2.3.13 Pathauto 2.3.14 Site information 2.3.15 Sites registry 2.3.16 Tagadelic configuration 2.3.17 TinyMCE 2.4 User management 2.4.1 Access control 2.4.2 Access rules 2.4.3 Roles 2.4.4 User settings 2.5 Organic Groups 3 Examples, ideas, inspiration 3.1 Online tutorials and training

Development environment

• PepperAlley learning portal - a testing ground for PepperAlley related development
• Drupal dojo scratch site - a place for those in the Drupal Dojo to work on projects usable by the entire Drupal community

Admin settings

Content management

Categories

• current set up
  • Projects
  • Lessons
• learning materials and resources

Content templates

• current set up
• learning materials and resources

Content types

Forums

News aggregator

Post settings

RSS publishing

• current set up
• learning materials and resources

Site building

Blocks

Contact form

Menus

• current set up
  • Primary
    • Home
    • Forums
    • News

Modules

Core

• Aggregator - syndicating content
• Block - controlling content in the sidebars
• Blog - a blog for every user
• BlogApi - post from blog tools
• Comment - allow comments on content
• Contact - allow other users to contact you
• Filter - Input formats for user content
• Forum - create threaded discussions
• Help - context sensitive information
• Menu - customize site navigation
• Node - the content
• Page - post static pages
• Panels - allows the creation of pages with flexible layouts.
• Path - readable URLs
• Profile - extending user account information
• Search - an internal site search system
• Story - post static pages
• Taxonomy - categories and classification schemes
• Tracker - viewing new and updated content
• User - access and management settings

Contributed

• Audio - Uploading and playback of audio files
• Buddylist - list your social network
• Content Construction Kit - Allows administrators to define new content types.
• Content Templates (Contemplate) - Create templates to customize teaser and body content.
• Diff - Show difference between node revisions.
• Donations - Enable donation tracking via Donorge
• Fasttoggle - Enables fast toggling of binary settings.
• freelinking - Wiki-style freelinking for node content using CamelCase and delimiters.
• Help Tip - Allows for context-sensitive help messages to appear in blocks.
• HTTP authentication - Allows users to authenticate using HTTP.
• Imagecache - enable dynamic image manipulator
• imagefield - Defines an image field type for content.module.
• modr8 - Easy, dedicated moderation of content
• MySite - Allows users to create a custom site view
• Organic Groups - Enable users to create and manage their own 'groups'.
• OG Vocab - Provide each organic group with its own vocabularies.
• Panels - Create pages that are divided into areas of the page.
• Pathauto - generate URL path aliases automatically
• Tagadelic - weighted tags in a tag cloud
• TinyMCE - a WYSIWYG editor
• Userlink - allows users to save and share links (bookmarks, URLs). (updated for Drupal 5 on January 29th, 2007)
• Views - Customized Node Lists
• Views Bonus Pack - a grouping of plugins and default views for Views

Panels

Themes

• Current theme
  • Zen theme - aims to be the ultimate standards-compliant starting theme for Drupal.
• learning materials and resources

Views

Site configuration

Administration theme

Blog APIs

Buddylist

Clean URLs

Distributed authentication

Donations

Freelinking

Helptip Settings

HTTP authentication

Image cache

Input formats

Modr8 settings

Pathauto

Site information

Sites registry

Tagadelic configuration

TinyMCE

User management

Access control

Access rules

Roles

User settings

Organic Groups

Examples, ideas, inspiration

Online tutorials and training

• Lynda.com - Online training for creative designers, instructors, students, and hobbyists.
  • Course list
• Pixel Corps - Online and real world training for digital media and production.
  • Course list and benefits
• News University - committed to providing interactive, inexpensive courses that appeal to journalists at all levels of experience and in all types of media.
  • Course list
• J-Learning - a how-to guide for hyper-local community media.
  • Topics
• UC Berkeley Multimedia Training Program - for journalists who want to learn how to do a multimedia story.