[wp-edu] FW: wp-edu Digest, Vol 61, Issue 2

Tue Jan 6 15:53:12 UTC 2015

Richard,
Happy New Year.
I did a wordpress in higher ed conference last year and am considering it again.  Here are some links. 

http://wphighed.org/2014/05/wordpress-in-higher-ed/ 
http://wordpressinhigheredconference.wordpress.com/ 

Nick

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   1. Re: Wordpress hosting with LTI integration (Berardi, Richard)

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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 15:05:10 +0000
From: "Berardi, Richard" <rberardi at georgian.edu>
To: "Covello, Steve" <Steve.Covello at granite.edu>, "Low-traffic list
	discussing WordPress in education." <wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>
Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Wordpress hosting with LTI integration
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Thanks Steve, and Happy New Year everyone.
I tried the relevanssi plugin a while back ? but it still wasn?t returning pdf results. I also need the content of the pdfs to be indexed, which that plugin won?t do.

I figured out how keep the default wordpress search box (without the ?powered by Google?) pulling in Google Custom Search results into a custom page that I have styled with css and Google fonts to match my design. So far so good. (php is not my thing, so it took some time to figure out)

Two other questions,
What resources do you look to in terms of Wordpress in Higher Ed?
Any recommendations for Wordpress hosting?

Thanks, and have a great day.
Rich

Richard Berardi
Web Administrator
Marketing & Communications
Georgian Court University
900 Lakewood Ave.
Lakewood, NJ 08701
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From: <Covello>, Steve <Steve.Covello at granite.edu<mailto:Steve.Covello at granite.edu>>
Date: Monday, December 29, 2014 at 10:58 AM
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Cc: Richard Berardi <rberardi at georgian.edu<mailto:rberardi at georgian.edu>>
Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Wordpress hosting with LTI integration

https://wordpress.org/plugins/relevanssi/

http://www.relevanssi.com/

Are you using the Download Monitor<https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-monitor/> plugin? It uses a custom post type for each entry, so you will get better results if your downloads are included among all post types.

Thx ? Steve

PS ? Would you happen to be related to Hall of Fame bowler Joe Berardi (1980s), from Brooklyn and Pearl River, NY?

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Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Wordpress hosting with LTI integration

Good morning all,
What search solution/plugin are you using on your Wordpress site? The default WP search is lacking. Being in higher ed, we use a lot of PDFs, which the default search doesn't return. I have tried implementing Google Custom Search, but I need it to work with the default search box - not as a widget. (I can't have the search box say "Google custom search" within the search box)

Any help/advice would be appreciated.
Rich Berardi
Georgian Court University

On Nov 6, 2014, at 7:47 PM, Benjamin Harwood <bharwood at skidmore.edu<mailto:bharwood at skidmore.edu>> wrote:

Good evening,

As a newcomer to LTI and WordPress, which objectives are being advanced and perhaps fulfilled by such integration? Is the goal to push WP to provide analytics feedback in reports like the performance dashboard in LMS's? Trying to better understand how students and faculty benefit from this independent of where their data is hosted.

Ben

Ben Harwood
Skidmore College

On Nov 6, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Mcmillan, Scott <scott.mcmillan at ubc.ca<mailto:scott.mcmillan at ubc.ca>> wrote:

Hi David,

We run LTI on http://blogs.ubc.ca and integrated to Blackboard .

It's just a plugin. I think any host that allows you to install plugins and run Multisite you are good to go with.

WPEngine might be worth checking out?

-Scott
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Hi David,

>From what I?ve been reading Rackspace does not support wildcat subdomains, which means you?ll need to use sub-directories for mu, but if you?re leaning towards them, ask about that. Other cloud hosting services I?ve heard about include Amazon?s EC2 (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/) and vps.net<http://vps.net>, but this is only from what I?ve read and not from experience.

h.

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Subject: [wp-edu] Wordpress hosting with LTI integration

Hello WP-Edu-ers,

We are looking at integrating WordPress more tightly with our LMS via LTI (http://www.imsglobal.org/toolsinteroperability2.cfm).

Although we have our own internally hosted multisite instance that allows any of our users to serve themselves with new WP sites we are looking at cloud hosting that would provide the LTI integration.

Anyone have any experience with commercial WordPress hosters and/or LTI? If so any info you have would be appreciated.

Thanks,

David

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