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While these use cases at a high level are still typical, the descriptions were very focused on courses and pedagogy. Over time, there’s been a large increase in the creation of more general websites for research projects, new initiatives, groups, and even small departments. </p> <p><strong>Public blogging: </strong>A faculty member administers a public WordPress site based on a course topic. Students participate as authors of public posts or pages. By making pages and posts public, the faculty member can also invite scholars outside of Duke to participate in the conversation.</p> <p><strong>As an LMS ‘replacement’</strong>: Many faculty don’t use LMS functions such as assignment/testing tools and the gradebook, and prefer a simpler solution for sharing resources and announcements. In this case, a faculty member creates a website providing the course syllabus, reading list, calendar and resources for their students. WordPress offers control over different pages – allowing the faculty member to make some of the site public, and some of it private and/or password protected.</p> <p><strong>Project Teams (aka ‘website projects’): </strong>A faculty member creates student groups to work on a semester-long research project. The faculty member asks students to design and create publicly available websites to publish their research findings as their final assignment. Students become administrators of their group WordPress sites – making design and info architecture decisions by selecting appropriate themes and widgets, and publishing multimedia-rich content. 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