Curricular WordPress Sites

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How is WordPress used academically at Evergreen?

Program websites

WordPress sites are publicly viewable to all. They can be self-created and 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.

Examples

Trajectories in Animation, Mathematics, and Physics
Krishna Chowdary and Ruth Hayes

  • Weekly schedule (also could have been done in Google Docs)
  • Welcome Questionnaire - filled out prior to start of program

Program website + student journals

Group 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


How should I structure the site?

Front page

  • news/program updates
  • or course description

What theme should I use?

  • Start with Evergreen Twenty Eleven

What else can I do with WordPress?