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WordPress at The Evergreen State College

WordPress has a variety of visibility settings. You can choose to keep your website private, share it only with faculty and peers, or share your work with a global audience!

Ease of use. WordPress is renowned as one of the easiest web authoring platforms to get started with. At the same time, a huge selection of additional functionality is available via plugins when you’re ready to take the next steps.
WordPress sites look good. Theme selection and the ability to easily customize the look and feel of your site are is as good as it gets without having to hire a developer.
Mobile ready. Most newer themes are designed to be responsive and adjust to work well on any size device.

Our Custom Instances of WordPress

Although similar to wordpress.com, these particular instances are specific to the college and are not connected with wordpress.com:

"wordpress.evergreen.edu" for use by student, faculty, and staff
"sites.evergreen.edu" for use by faculty and staff - however, please note: as of summer 2025, "sites" is in process of being closed/sunsetted - details below)
Note: A WordPress app is not available for these custom instances, use is by desktop and mobile web browser only.

As of Summer 2025, we are using wordpress.evergreen.edu only

What this means:

Students, Faculty, and Staff have access to use wordpress.evergreen.edu
Sites may be requested (by anyone with an active Evergreen account) via help.evergreen.edu.
Faculty may also request WordPress via their Academic Resources pages (same place Canvas can be requested).
Faculty and Staff: If you have questions about this change and options regarding your content at "sites.evergreen.edu," please contact Academic Technologies via help.evergreen.edu.

Learning and Teaching Possibilities with WordPress

Program/course project or showcase: all students are contributing members of the same site.
Student Portfolios for class work, capstone, internships, writing, art showcase, etc: individual or group sites.

Group website

Group sites have multiple authors writing to the same site. Coordination and organization up front are the keys to a successful group site.

Example: Group Project Website

Animal Others - the eBestiary
Anne DeMarken and Ruth Hayes

Each student was a contributor and added a post with their content
text plus rich media (images and video)
categories were used to structure the site
student "Wranglers" went through each post and helped other students with formatting and other issues

Birds of Evergreen
Alison Styring

Each student was a contributor and added a post with their content
text plus rich media (images and audio)
categories were used to structure the site

What else can I do with WordPress?

WordPress Tutorial for wordpress.evergreen.edu
Image galleries

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-==How is WordPress used academically at Evergreen?==
-===Program websites===
-WordPress sites are publicly viewable to all. They can be [[Create a New WordPress Site|self-created]] and [[When Moodle and WordPress Get Together|used in conjunction with Moodle]]. Make sure to notify your Academic Computing Liaison if you self-create a WordPress site for your academic offering so we can link it to the academic catalog and make it easy for people to find.
-* See the '''[[WordPress Tutorial]]''' to get started.
+<div class="container-fluid">
+<div class="row">
+<div class="col-md-8">
+<div class="lead">
+'''WordPress at The Evergreen State College'''
+</div>
+WordPress has a variety of visibility settings. You can choose to keep your website private, share it only with faculty and peers, or share your work with a global audience!
+* '''Ease of use.''' WordPress is renowned as one of the easiest web authoring platforms to get started with. At the same time, a huge selection of additional functionality is available via plugins when you’re ready to take the next steps.
+* '''WordPress sites look good.''' Theme selection and the ability to easily customize the look and feel of your site are is as good as it gets without having to hire a developer.
+* '''Mobile ready.''' Most newer themes are designed to be responsive and adjust to work well on any size device.
-====Example: Program websites====
-[[File:Trajectories-example.png|150px|left]]
-'''[http://blogs.evergreen.edu/trajectories/ Trajectories in Animation, Mathematics, and Physics]'''<br />
-Krishna Chowdary and Ruth Hayes
-* Weekly schedule (also could have been done in Google Docs)
-* Welcome Questionnaire - filled out prior to start of program
+===  Our Custom Instances of WordPress ===
+Although similar to wordpress.com, these particular instances are specific to the college and are not connected with wordpress.com:
+* [https://wordpress.evergreen.edu "'''wordpress'''.evergreen.edu]" for use by student, faculty, and staff
+* "'''sites'''.evergreen.edu" for use by faculty and staff - '''however, please note:''' as of summer 2025, "sites" is in process of being closed/sunsetted - details below)
+* Note: A WordPress app is not available for these custom instances, use is by desktop and mobile web browser only.
+==== As of Summer 2025, we are using [https://wordpress.evergreen.edu '''wordpress'''.evergreen.edu] only ====
+What this means:
+* Students, Faculty, and Staff have access to use [https://wordpress.evergreen.edu '''wordpress'''.evergreen.edu]
+* Sites may be requested (by anyone with an active Evergreen account) via [https://help.evergreen.edu help.evergreen.edu].
+* Faculty may also request WordPress via their [https://presence.evergreen.edu Academic Resources pages] (same place Canvas can be requested).
+* Faculty and Staff: If you have questions about this change and options regarding your content at "'''sites'''.evergreen.edu," please contact Academic Technologies via [https://help.evergreen.edu help.evergreen.edu].
-===Program website + student journals===
+=== Learning and Teaching Possibilities with WordPress ===
-Some faculty choose to have their students maintain academic web-based journals. Integrating the work of your students into the class website can be an effective way to bring together all of the work happening in the program. Program sites can aggregate the feeds from student blogs creating a dynamic page that always shows the latest posts from your students.
+* Program/course project or showcase: all students are contributing members of the same site.
+* Student Portfolios for class work, capstone, internships, writing, art showcase, etc: individual or group sites.
-====Example: Program website + student journals====
-[[File:Museum-example.png|150px|left]]
-'''[http://blogs.evergreen.edu/museumormausoleum/student-journals/ Museum or Mausoleum]'''<br />
-Lara Evans and Sara Williams
-* program information included news on the front page
-* dynamic page that aggregates student journals
+==== Group website ====
+Group sites have multiple authors writing to the same site. Coordination and organization up front are the keys to a successful group site.
+===== Example: Group Project Website =====
+[[File:Ebestiary-example.png|200px|right]]
-===Group website===
+'''[http://blogs.evergreen.edu/ebestiary/ Animal Others] - the eBestiary'''<br>
-Group sites have multiple authors writing to the same site. Coordination and organization  up front are the keys to a successful group site.
-====Example: Group website====
-[[File:Ebestiary-example.png|150px|left]]
-[http://blogs.evergreen.edu/ebestiary/ Animal Others] - the eBestiary<br>
 Anne DeMarken and Ruth Hayes
 * Each student was a contributor and added a post with their content
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 * student "Wranglers" went through each post and helped other students with formatting and other issues
-==Faculty FAQs==
-====How do I request/create a site?====
-You can [[Create a New WordPress Site|self-create]] sites or request that your academic computing liaison create one for you.
-====How should I structure the site?====
+[[File:Birds-example.png|200px|right]]
-Front page
-* news/program updates
-* or course description
-====What theme should I use?====
+'''[http://blogs.evergreen.edu/birds/ Birds of Evergreen]'''<br />
-*Start with Evergreen Twenty Eleven
+Alison Styring
+* Each student was a contributor and added a post with their content
+* text plus rich media (images and audio)
+* categories were used to structure the site
-====What else can I do with WordPress?====
-*Add geo-location data to your posts. For an example of this see a student blog exploring sustainability in an urban setting [http://blogs.evergreen.edu/summersustainability/travel-map/ Summer Sustainability] from the program [http://blogs.evergreen.edu/summerinthecity/ Summer in the City].
-====What happens to my site at the end of the year?====
+==== What else can I do with WordPress? ====
-All curricular WordPress sites will be [http://archives.evergreen.edu/webpages/curricular/ archived]. If you would like to re-use your site again contact your academic computing liaison, otherwise the site will be deleted once the archiving process is complete.
+* [[WordPress Tutorial for wordpress.evergreen.edu]]
+* Image galleries
-{{WordPress Help}}
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+<div class="col-md-3 sidebar">
+{{WordPress Sidebar Header}}
+{{WordPress Help Sidebar}}
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   [[category:Wordpress]]
+[[Category:Curricular Technologies]]