WORKSHOP SYLLABUS
TRAINER NAME AND ADDRESS:
OPIN Software Inc.
320 Catherine Street, 2nd Floor, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2P 0W7
REGISTRATION:
Register online at http://contentandsiteadministrationtrainingfordrupal-opin.eventbrite.ca
For any questions and concerns contact:
Jon O’Sullivan
Senior Account Executive
613-292-8317
jon.o’sullivan@opin.ca
OR for more information on our other Drupal course offerings go to:
http://www.drupaltraining.ca/
TRAINING DATE:
March 4th, 2015.
TRAINING OVERVIEW
Course Objective:
No matter what your site is intended to do, making sure site managers and members are using it in a productive way is integral to its success. This one-day course seeks to ensure just that and educate attendees on the numerous tools made available to content publishers and site administrators. This training session will provide attendees with the skills necessary to be able to upload, create, and edit content, set user roles, permissions and security guidelines, as well as perform general site maintenance. Once you learn Drupal’s language for content administration and site management, you will be able to effectively leverage any Drupal CMS. The training package also includes a certificate of completion, full lunch, Drupal handbook with all pertinent reference material, as well as some free follow up support should any trainee's require some clarification or advice when facing everyday roadblocks.
Audience:
This course is designed for anyone involved with updating and managing their website who wants to maximize their productivity. The course tailors to a wide range or organizational positions including but not limited to:
-Senior Managers
-Communications
-IT and Web Teams
-Web Publishers and Content Editors
No previous programming or technical knowledge is required. For any questions regarding suitability of this course please contact us.
Hosted By:
OPIN is a provider of enterprise content management solutions for government and private sector organizations. We are also one of only a few Acquia Certified training partners in Canada. At OPIN, our vision is to assist clients through software implementation and consulting in creating an effective web presence. OPIN works with federal, provincial, and municipal governments, as both a service and software supplier. Our mission is to provide extensive IT, management and creative competence to deliver custom enterprise content management solutions to clients using open-source technology.
DRUPAL TRAINING AGENDA
INTRODUCTION:
Drupal background and key terminology (advantages, community what are blocks, nodes, fields etc.)
SITE BUILDING:
Content UI
-Creating node summaries
-Formatting text
-Text Formats
-Additional node properties
Creating new content types with custom fields
-Creating a custom content type
-Additional content type properties
Field API
-Boolean fields
-Numeric fields (Decimal, Float, and Integer)
-File fields
-Image Fields
-List fields
-Term Reference fields
-Text fields
Field display
Taxonomy
-Creating new vocabularies
-Managing vocabularies
-Tagging content with vocabularies
Content creation and editing
-Create, publish, unpublish, and manage content
-Add attached files, media or inline images/video to content
-Edit content according to SEO improvement procedure
SITE ADMINISTRATION:
Administration toolbar
Appearance section
Installing new themes and modules
Modules
-What are modules and their dependencies
-Where to find modules
-How to install modules
-Updating modules
Views Administration
-Building dynamic pages
-Available Views
-Deconstructing a View
-Translation interface
Configuration section
-Regional and language
-Search and metadata
-Media section
-System section
Authentication and Security
-People, User Roles, and Authentication
-Permissions
-Account settings
-Password strength meter