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Because of the pandemic I too have to start teaching online. I’ve been setting everything up and I’m going to track my progress and findings under the teaching online<\/a>-tag. This post is about my preparations to make this class available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Class<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The course students are taking consists of one class every week for (nearly) the entire school year, they get different subjects during this year and my subject, WordPress, is one of the last ones. It is not a straight-up, plain-old, WordPress class. During the year they have worked on a project and made a design for a website or an app, during my class those designs will be turned into actual sites or webapps with WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Situation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The class is in Amsterdam at MK24<\/a> and I was going to fly back there on March 19 but now I’m staying in New York City. Not a bad deal by any stretch of the imagination but let’s say I’m very glad that my class is an evening class. With the time difference between Amsterdam and New York, it will be 1 or 2pm in New York (depending on whether the clocks have changed in Amsterdam as well) when class starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tools <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

All the content for the classes will be on one WordPress website and each student will get their own WordPress site in a folder of the main site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since I’m being paid by MK24 to teach this class, I cannot show you all of it. You can look at the public part at digitaldesignyear.nl<\/a> but most of the information for students, the classes, the video conferencing, is restricted to students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students can log into the main site. Their roll, in WordPress terms, is Subscriber. Once logged in, they will never see the admin area of the site or the WordPress toolbar at the top but they will be able to see a lot more content, including the page with the video conferencing embedded and all the classes and resources for the classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I’m using to build this site:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n