Adding Categories for Posts

A vocabulary (set of categories) can be supplied for users to tag their posts with (see Kairosnews posts for an example).

You can

• Try a sample vocabulary which has already been created.
  • Go to the taxonomy module in administer >> content management >> categories .
  • Select edit vocabulary to the right of "Image Galleries" in the the list of categories.
  • If you don't like "Image Galleries," you can give the vocabulary a new name (e.g., "Pictures")
  • Check the boxes beside the Types of content you want the vocabulary to be available for.
  • Note that the Required checkbox controls whether or not users have to pick a category term when posting.
  • Submit your changes.
  Now whenever a site user creates a post of one of the selected types, this set of terms (category items) will be available for them to tag their posts.

You can also

• Add terms (category items) to an existing vocabularly or edit existing terms at adminster >> content management >> categories.
• Create a new vocabulary via adminster >> content management >> categories.

In conjunction with categories, teachers may want to use one of the following modules

• Taxonomy DHTML. Includes a category listing page and option of enabling blocks for specific category sets (vocabularies).
• Taxonomy Menu. Can be used to create menus like the main navigation menu based on a category set (vocabulary).

;These modules can be enabled or disabled in administer >> site building >> modules.