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Dealing with multiple course sections

Dealing with multiple course sections - WordPress Tutorial

From the course: WordPress for Education

Dealing with multiple course sections

- There are several ways that we can deal with multiple course sections when we're using WordPress as part of our classroom. One way is to simply install a separate instance of WordPress for each class that we're teaching. Now this provides a nice separation between our courses, and for some classes, that makes a lot of sense. It's a lot of work to maintain all of those different sites. One way you can cut down on some of the management of that is by using "WordPress Multisite". Now, "Multisite" is a special version of WordPress that allows you to manage multiple different WordPress installs from one parent account. However, the challenge is, you're still dealing with multiple different instances of WordPress. The next option is to simply create a category for each section within your course. Now, this has several advantages. First of all, it allows all of your students to engage with each other across sections. Secondly, it allows you to manage one instance of WordPress for all of…

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