The document provides resources for using WordPress for training and education purposes, including plugins and themes for courseware, quiz applications, live chat, form builders, membership sites, podcasting, broadcasting tools, external video embedding, multilingual support, mobile site management, and online presentations. Links are included to plugins and websites that allow adding these various features to a WordPress site for educational applications. The resources cover a wide range of tools and applications that can be used to build out an online educational platform or ministry using WordPress.

1. WordPress in Training
2012 Metroplex Bible Teachers Workshop

2. WordPress in Training
Evangelism, the Classroom and Beyond...

3. Courseware
Plugins and themes
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-courseware/ - A Learning Management System for
BuddyPress
Example - http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/the-edublogs-forums-bbpress-theme
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/teachpress/ : The plugin unites a course management system
(with enrollments) and a BibTeX compatible publication management. teachPress is optimized for
the needs of professorships and research groups. You can use it with WordPress 3.3.0 or higher.

4. Quiz Apps
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http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mtouch-quiz/,
http://gmichaelguy.com/quizplugin/ - mTouch Quiz lets you add quizzes to your site. This plugin was
designed with learning, touch friendliness and versatility in mind.
http://gmichaelguy.com/quizplugin/displaying-the-quiz/
(How to display the quiz in your page or post…)
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-survey-and-quiz-tool/ - A highly customizable
Quiz, Survey and Poll plugin to which allows for unlimited questions and sections.

5. Live Chat
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/wordpress-chat-plugin-lite : Host your own live chat sessions,
interact with your visitors and boost your conversions, without needing any third party javascript or
other code - works great with buddy press and multisite too.

6. Form Builders
http://www.gravityforms.com/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/ - Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact
forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-
powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

7. Membership
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/wordpress-membership-lite/screenshots/ Lite version of the most
powerful, easy to use and flexible plugin for WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress sites available. Offer downloads, post, pages,
forums and more...

8. Podcasting
Plugins:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/powerpress/ - Blubrry PowerPress brings the essential features for
podcasting to WordPress. Developed by podcasters for podcasters, PowerPress offers full iTunes support, the
Update iTunes Listing feature, web audio/video media players and more. PowerPress is designed as an upgrade to
PodPress.
ibooks
example: http://amessagefromthelord.com/audiosermons/
Definition: http://www.youtube.com/embed/yy63z1CzWZY

9. Broadcasting Tools
Interactive Tools
Google Plus Hangouts Intro: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/
http://Spreecast - http://spreecast.com http://help.spreecast.com/videos
http://ustream.tv - live stream over the internet
http://www.justin.tv - live stream over the internet

10. External Video Plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-videos/ : This plugin creates a new WordPress post
type called "External Videos" and aggregates videos from a external social networking site's user
channel to the WordPress instance. For example, it finds all the videos of the user "Fred" on YouTube
and adds them each as a new post type. The videos can be presented in a gallery using the
shortcode [external-videos]. There is also a widget to add a list of the most recent videos in a
sidebar.

11. Multilanguage Support
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/select-language-at-signup - allows new users to select the
language they use at signup

12. Mobile Site Management
http://wordpress.org/extend/mobile/ - Manage your WordPress site from your smartphone

13. Presentations
http://www.slideshare.net

14. Thank You!
Brent Rusk
brent@2rdm.com
@brent90
www.2rdm.com