23 exercises for site editors and Drupal beginners

Drupal can be fascinating and inspiring – which you probably already know. Teaching absolute Drupal basics over and over again, though, may be less inspiring. If you feel that way, the Boss suite of Drupal exercises may help getting some inspiration to both you and your students.

The Boss exercise suite is 23 quick tasks with Drupal beginners or site editors as the target group. In the exercises, a fictive Boss wants a number of things set up on a new website – including topics like posting content, setting up URL aliases, managing comments, creating user accounds, managing blocks and editing menus.

The exercises are a part of the book Drupal 7 – the Essentials, and are copied straight off from the "Drupal basics" part of the book. Also, almost all exercises are linked to relevant parts of the Learn Drupal 7 screencast series, allowing quick help and hints even if you don't have a copy of the book.

I hope the exercises can be of help for both Drupal trainers and beginners.

(Exercise 4) Hi, it’s Boss The website is coming together nicely, but I think we should have an about us page available at example.com/about-us. I called our web consultants, and they say you can fix this. Unfortunately I have no time to write up the text myself, so you’ll have to do it. Thanks. //Boss

 

(Exercise 8) Hi, it’s Boss This revisioning thing is actually quite useful, but I’m getting irritated of having to check the ”create new revision” checkbox every time. I called our web consultants, and they say that you can fix this too. (I’m beginning to wonder if we really need the consultants.) Can you make it so that all the articles and basic pages are revision controlled by default? Thanks. //Boss