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Drupal for Education and E-Learning is a new book from Packt that enables users to enhance teaching in a classroom, and engage students with a range of learning activities using the Drupal CMS platform. Written by prominent Content Management expert and creator of the DrupalEd distribution, Bill Fitzgerald, this book provides a step-by-step overview of how to work with Drupal to build a feature-rich learning environment.

Drupal is a free Open Source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS). Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence. Written in the programming language PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design means it is one of the most popular choices for creating a CMS website.

This book covers Drupal 6, and describes how to build a community website to support teaching and learning. The hands-on, step-by-step instructions, guide users through installing Drupal, configuring contributed modules and themes, and working with some of Drupal’s most useful and powerful modules, including CCK, Views, and Organic Groups. This book also provides details regarding website maintenance, upgrades, and backups; which are essential for keeping websites and data secure.

Through this book, users will learn how to configure the default Drupal installation, and to extend their website to include social bookmarking, a podcasting and video sharing platform, image sharing, and interactive discussions around media rich content. This book focuses around creating educational activities in Drupal, with lots of examples of realistic courses and classroom ideas – and how to implement them.

The book can be used by both people new to Drupal and also experienced Drupallers. This book is out now and is available from Packt. For more information, please visit http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-for-education-and-e-learning/book