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.
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
2012 Metroplex Bible Teachers Workshop
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.
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.
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.
