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Published: July 18, 2022

Joomla for dignity activists

 

1 Introduction

• Why do I offer this course, my goals

• What to expect after having followed the course

• What is needed to achieve the goals (prior knowledge, time, commitment to …)

• Which topics will be addressed

Articles/documents/links: curriculum page

Survey: collect self-assessments, student's goals, expectations, prior knowledge

2 Surfing the WDU website

• What happens when visiting a web page

• The client-server model: request-response

• Usability and accessibility

• Data security, data protection, access rights

Quiz: Internet, World Wide Web, Client-Server, URL, IP addresses, Internet security

3 From passive to active: Content creation

• Accessing the server, Login to the backend

• Exploring the Joomla backend

• Articles, categories, tags, modules, menus

• Joomla Extensions

Quiz: terms from the Joomla backend

• Presentation of the 'playground'

• Workflow demo: Create an article and make it visible in the frontend

Playground exercise: Students create a 'Greeting' message, which shows after clicking on the 'Greetings' menu item

4 Adding bells and whistles to an article

• Images, Links, Buttons, Headers, …

• Workflow demo

Playground exercise: Publish a blog article about a topic of your choice, with a link and an image.

5 Create a dedicated WDU section for a lecture/seminar/course

• Initial considerations about the sections' organization

• Extensions: Forum, quiz, video, …

• Preparing the content: Articles, documents for download, …

• Setup menus, modules, categories

• Create articles

• Workflow demo: WDU seminar example

Playground exercise: Setup a workshop section (separate category, announcement as blog article, report with video link and link to other files in the Activities section, module with a teaser on the home page)

6 Manage students

• When and why is enrolling to an event needed?

• Overview of Joomla user management (roles, rights, groups)

• Workflow demo: Granting students the right to access a course

7 Wrapping up

• Summary: What we learned so far

Survey: Self-assessment: Do I feel safe in applying what has been learned? What is still difficult? Which topics I like to understand better? Is content creation something I like to do?

• Outlook: What more is possible now

• How to go further, where to learn more