Building a platform for teachers and TAs to communicate

  • mihret

    (@mihret)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    Beginner coder here. I’ve only worked with Python and Java and only for backend stuff. I’m looking to build a platform where teachers and their assistants can communicate about their students’ grades and progress. The website has to be able to support a messaging board with different levels of privacy settings and a database of the students that can be updated and maybe be manipulated to spew out some data at the end of every week (editing has to be user friendly and available to all users). Can I use WordPress for this kind of project? and if so how? if not, what should I be looking into?

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  • Michael Burridge

    (@mburridge)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    I think it’s possible to do what you want with WordPress, in fact I think almost any kind of site can be built in WordPress – it’s an immensely powerful and flexible system which can be extended almost infinitely in terms of functionality with plugins, and designed in any style using themes.

    For the functionality you want you should perhaps be looking at bbPress which is a forum type plugin, and/or BuddyPress which provides social-networking/community functionality.

    Regarding the database of students, that could perhaps be done with Advanced Custom Fields, but I would tend to do it with a bespoke plugin that creates a custom post type for students – possibly with taxonomies that indicate their teacher or college. This requires some coding skills though. You would need to learn PHP and the WordPress template tags.

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