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

Wed Jan 7 19:53:52 UTC 2015

Thanks Nick!

Richard Berardi
Web Administrator
Marketing & Communications
Georgian Court University
900 Lakewood Ave.
Lakewood, NJ 08701
p: 732-987-2469 <tel:732-987-2469>
e: rberardi at georgian.edu

On 1/6/15, 10:53 AM, "Skriloff, Nicholas" <SkriloffN at darden.virginia.edu>
wrote:

>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
>p: 732-987-2469<tel:732-987-2469>
>e: rberardi at georgian.edu<mailto:rberardi at georgian.edu>
>
>From: <Covello>, Steve
><Steve.Covello at granite.edu<mailto:Steve.Covello at granite.edu>>
>Date: Monday, December 29, 2014 at 10:58 AM
>To: "Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education."
><wp-edu at lists.automattic.com<mailto:wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>>
>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?
>
>--
>Steve Covello
>Rich Media Specialist/Instructional Designer/Online Instructor Chalk &
>Wire e-Portfolio Administrator Granite State College
>603-513-1346
>Skype: steve.granitestate
>Scheduling: http://meetme.so/stevecovello
>
>
>From: <Berardi>, Richard
><rberardi at georgian.edu<mailto:rberardi at georgian.edu>>
>Reply-To: "Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education."
><wp-edu at lists.automattic.com<mailto:wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>>
>Date: Monday, December 29, 2014 10:34 AM
>To: "Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education."
><wp-edu at lists.automattic.com<mailto:wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>>
>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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>Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 9:13 AM
>To: Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education.
>Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Wordpress hosting with LTI integration
>
>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.
>
>Hillary Meister, M.Ed.
>Web Coordinator
>GSU College of Education
>30 Pryor Street
>Georgia State University
>Atlanta, GA 30303-3083
>hmeister at gsu.edu<mailto:hmeister at gsu.edu>
>http://education.gsu.edu/
><image001.png> 404-413-8112
>
>
>From: wp-edu [mailto:wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of
>Grogan, David
>Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 9:18 AM
>To: 'wp-edu at lists.automattic.com<mailto:wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>'
>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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