Break the webmaster bottleneck by empowering instructors and staff Enable instructors and staff to represent the program uses Plone's built-in types of content - news items, collections, and events - without writing a single line codeEmbed voice and video into your course materials, news feeds, or anywhere in your Plone siteWritten by Erik Rose - a member of the Plone 4th and 5th Framework TeamsExpert guide to using the best plug-ins so you can get the best from your site right from the beginning In Detail Plone allows faculty and staff to manage their own web sites, but some assembly is still required. Through a step-by-step examples include 11 cases of the general use of education, you will learn how to take the box provided by Plone, combining them with best-of-breed third-party plug-ins, and it turns out a dynamic web environment that will be joy used for faculty, increase staff productivity, and involve students. Plone is very powerful but complex. What you will learn from this book Building a common e-learning tasks in Plone: schedule tasks, course materials, online turn-in form, and classroom interaction using a podcast directory and school-wide and department-wise forumsBuild collect contact info, biography, and moreTake care needs, such as adjusting the display your site, setting up a production server, and run incremental backupsIntegrate audio and video with Plone: woven into the pages, fill the portlet, and podcasting to product worldHarness Plone4Artists Calendar to improve the appearance of the event listingsFind tips on information architecture and usability, learning from successes and mistakes of some site Each chapter will guide you through solving cases commonly used education-domain. Chapter 1: Making Programs. Is a bare-bones course in Plone, for garnish optional in the next chapter. Chapter 2: Calendar. Chapter 3: displays Personnel with Faculty / Staff Directory. Faculty / Staff Directory practical products department website in a box. Finally, get a sneak peek into the future of the Faculty / Staff Directory product, which I helped develop. Chapter 4: Expanding Faculty / Staff Directory. Chapter 5: Blogs & Forums. In this chapter, create blogs and forums to fight both problems - to give students more classroom interaction and help build outstanding professional faculty. We will find the best products to explore the blog Plone and practical advice on how to use blogs in the classroom. Chapter 6: Audio & Video. In this chapter, learn how to publish audio and video in Plone and create a podcast so that students can take the new material automatically. Chapter 7: Creating Forms Quickly. Chapter 8: Styling Your Site. This chapter is a crash course in the creation of themes Plone 3. After untangling the confusing situation with Plone theme, we guide you through the development framework of the theme, giving you everything you need to adjust one of the default Plone CSS or images. Chapter 9: Going Live. In this chapter, set up a Plone installation that can serve hundreds of anonymous requests per second using one-size-fits-almost-all configuration samples. Chapter 10: Maintenance, Backup, and Upgrade. Make sure the pain-free upgrade by learning how much to trust the release of Plone, and test third-party products to avoid surprises are not pleasant. Approach This book is written primarily for a limited time the web team. Each chapter hands-on from start to finish, with a focus on sites get added value quickly. In addition, each independent chapter, dealing with cases of a specific use - for example, video publishing, creating forms, or representing the task schedule and syllabus - so you can skip directly to what you need. Most chapters do not require programming at all. Who is this book written for Plone 3 for Education is to a web site builder schools, from elementary school to university, from e-learning for general-face, from the intelligent technology teacher for experienced software developers.