Teacher Resources
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I know this is the forums but I’m hoping to get help from WordPress directly. I am a high school teacher and I have a web design class. I just found out that using WordPress is the way to go if students want to learn how to make websites instead of HTML and CSS. I also learned from someone in the career field that Elementor is key to learning WordPress and being prepared for future jobs. I would really like to help my students be ready for this, but unfortunately purchasing a business plan for each of my individual students is not realistic especially since they are still learning it. Is there anyone I may talk to to perhaps get a quote or deal for a classroom of students that want to learn the program? Please help.
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Hi there! WordPress.com doesn’t have group pricing for schools as such; just out of curiosity how many students are you working with? Did you have a set syllabus already? Additionally, would it be worth setting up just the one site and inviting (guide linked) the students to have management access?
If you’re on a strict budget it might be worth looking into locally hosting WordPress websites on the students’ computers to start with. They won’t be on the internet as such but knowing how to set up a local staging site could be helpful too:
https://wordpress.com/support/alternatives-to-staging-sites/#testing-on-a-local-installation-of-word-pressYour students can of course create free sites here on WordPress.com but those won’t be able to install plugins here, or dive into the database; but it is a quick way to start getting an idea of how WordPress works as a content management system!
Elementor is one of several pagebuilder plugins and is exclusively WYSIWYG. It tends to override anything done within the default WordPress editor (which is also far more WYSIWYG than it used to be).
I’ve only really experienced Elementor within the context of helping troubleshoot websites and why they might be throwing errors so I can’t really speak to whether it’s more useful to focus more exclusively on one plugin, or whether to get a deeper understanding of competently-structured HTML and how WordPress works. Generally though, I’ve personally found it easier to get to grips with various totally unfamiliar plugins because I am used to how the basic software works.
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I currently have 11 students in my web design program but hope to grow it in the future. I do not have a syllabus since I recently learned that professional web design isn’t HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from scratch anymore but that most web designers use WordPress to create and maintain websites. The professional I spoke to said Elementor is also very common and really helpful. I already got them their own websites and they’re editing them/learning. Do you have any learning programs or tutorials that you recommend? And so is a group discount or simply free access to the business plan out of the question? I can prove I am a teacher and that it would be for education purposes. And I’d only ask for 12 (one for me, too), and then just ask for those licenses for new students.
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Hi @cdunford676da58cda , none of our tutorials are focused on Elementor, as that’s outside WordPress itself and not related to our services. But we do have lots of great resources here: https://wordpress.com/support/tutorials
We also have frequent webinars on various topics: https://wordpress.com/webinars/
I’d encourage you to watch those and read this as well to determine whether you’d like to teach them using our services and the Business Plan.
Personally, if I were teaching WordPress as a skill for future web developers, I’d recommend letting the students know about the differences between our services and running a copy of WordPress. If I were out designing sites for clients again I absolutely would host them here so that my clients wouldn’t have to worry about maintaining and updating sites.
But, I would teach them using the free WordPress software itself, on local installations, so that they can understand how to manage updates and whatnot themselves. Does that make sense? We don’t have education/group discounts for the Business Plan, but I also think that service is not the best place for learning WordPress, so much as not having to learn it, because we handle the technical stuff for our clients.
And for what it’s worth, even though HTML and CSS are mostly handled for folks in WordPress and other systems, I’d teach them some of that, too. I hope this helps!
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Oops, I said read this, but forgot to include the link:
https://wordpress.com/go/website-building/wordpress-com-vs-wordpress-org/
That article covers a lot of the misconceptions about WordPress.com and WordPress.org, as a lot of folks have had them confused for some time. I hope it helps!
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