PacktLib: Plone 3 for Education

Plone 3 for Education

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Creating Courses

Prepare a place for courses

Create the course skeleton

Add course-wide events

Use news items for course-specific announcements

Collect due dates on the course's front page

Reusing the course framework

Show events on a calendar

Exclude trivia from the site-wide calendar

Build a browsable hierarchy with collections

Tips for event contributors

Represent recurring events

Showcasing Personnel with Faculty/Staff Directory

Install the product

Test drive Faculty/Staff Directory

Coming attractions

Extending Faculty/Staff Directory

A look at Archetypes

Introducing schemaextender

Start your extender

Adapters: the anatomy of an Extender

Add the fax and publications fields

Show the new fields in views

Hide or change existing fields

Off-the-shelf extenders

Blogs and Forums

Plone's blogging potential

Add-on products: free as in puppies

News Items: blogging for the hurried or risk-averse

Scrawl: a blog with a view

QuillsEnabled: blogging bells and whistles

QuillsEnabled + Scrawl: the perfect pair

Forums with Ploneboard

Embedding Audio and Video

Meet the products

Play standalone media

Embed media in pages

Creating Forms Fast

Install PloneFormGen

A tour of PloneFormGen

PloneFormGen versus Archetypes content objects

Styling Your Site

An overview of Plone theming

Prepare your development environment

Begin your theme

Finalize installation

Customize theme elements

Customize Zope 2 elements

Customize Zope 3 elements

Introducing the stack

Increase speed with caching

Maintenance, Backups, and Upgrades

Upgrade add-on products