Drupal in Education
Welcome to the Drupal in Education group. This group is an umbrella group for supporting and discussing the various uses of Drupal in educational settings.
Guidelines - See the these for how to make best use of this recently redesigned group.
DrupalEd - For info on DrupalEd, the Drupal installation profile for education, see here.
How to best share a drupal site?
I was recently part of a poster on our Drupal-based Collaborative Sites Platform at EduCause.
As a part of the session proposal, I promised an "online starter kit" that would allow people to download our version of Collaborative Sites, install it on their own servers, tinker away, and perhaps even collaborate with us on improving it moving forward.
Where to draw the line between sites, concentrating on data sharing, linking, and stability
I'm working on a migration to Drupal for a small university, roughly 2500 students and we're trying to figure out how many sites, what deserves its own site and what departments should be mixed together.
Elementary Teacher Pages
Last spring we moved our districts web pages over to drupal. Since then we have been helping teachers that would like to have their own page build one in druapl. For the most part we have used either book pages for them or just a single page. The issue we have ran into is that elementary teachers tend to want their page to be, for lack of a better word, cute. Like they want graphics of teddy bears or cartoon characters.. etc.
Single Sign-On choice
Hi,
We're looking at SSO solutions to replace the system we currently use which was built in-house. Our requirements (for now) are:
- Works with Drupal
- Works with WordPress
- Works with custom PHP applications
- Supports LDAP, Kerberos and optionally SPNEGO
- Ideally Open Source
- High Availability
We've narrowed down our choices to four options:
- CAS
- CoSign
- OpenSSO
- Shibboleth
Webinar from Acquia/OHO Interactive: Drupal in Higher Education / Recruiting
Acquia and OHO Interactive have partnered ro develop a webinar discussing Higher Education Recruiting and how Drupal can help.
OHO Interactive has developed websites and online learning communities for Harvard University, Yale University, Northwestern, Lesley University and the MIT Media Lab. OHO specializes in engaging audiences on the internet by marrying technology and interface - and together with Acquia will discuss some of the challenges faced by higher education communities and how the Drupal solution can help.
Finishing up quiz 4
Quiz 4 is now more or less feature complete, but it is probably very unstable. We could use help from the community in testing the module.
Any and all patches are off course very much appreciated as well!
Here are the open issues:
http://drupal.org/project/issues/quiz?text=&status=Open&priorities=All&c...
Certificates for Quiz Completions
Hi All,
For those of you out there that use, or plan to use, Quiz module....
I'm trying to organize requirements for a new module that would work with quiz to provide certificates (PDF or otherwise) to signify the completion of a Quiz. These could be printed, emailed, etc. I have the current specs typed up in the following google doc:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dvc73g9_6cpvkbpdb
And this has been discussed already some over on d.o in this thread:
http://drupal.org/node/501874
There appears to be a fair amount of interest in this functionality, so I wanted to open the floor for comments here as well, before firing off development on this. Let me know what you think... missing requirements? missing use cases? bad approaches? etc...
And... my apologies for the made up username here. My normal account isn't working... despite synch requests...
Drupal Kata (our homegrown project learning program) is taking shape
Hi there -
Just to follow up for those who aren't already aware/involved (most of you), the Drupal Kata (http://drupalkata.com/) is up and running and we're starting to generate a bit of interest. That said, we're still very much in need of leaders, mentors, advisers, and apprentices in the areas of project/sprint/task management, education, business, and marketing. Developers, designers, themers, are obviously pretty key, but it helps when there are people to provide guidance.
These may be good points of entry -
drupal cursussen / drupal courses
Weet iemand of er cursussen drupal worden aangeboden? Ik ben weliswaar al een aantal jaar bezig met drupal voor het hoger onderwijs en heb veel aan de boeken van Packt (o.a.) en diverse video's op het internet, maar ik zou graag eens met mensen van gedachten wisselen over drupal. theme development en module development.
Document management/file repository module?
Can anyone recommend a way to store files within a drupal site? We're looking at putting our school intranet on drupal. We don't need document management the way a huge corporation would; we're a small independent school (500 students). But we would like a place to put school forms, etc. Thanks in advance!
Special Boston Meetup-Dries Buytaert Speaking-Monday October 26th
Drupal project founder and Acquia CTO/co-founder Dries Buytaert will be speaking at MIT's Stata Center Monday October 26th at 5pm. Dries will talk about Drupal 7, where Drupal is headed and more. No sign-up necessary.
Dries's Post:
http://buytaert.net/speaking-at-mit
Location:
Kirsch Auditorium-32-123 and Student Street reception area
Map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/?selection=32&Buildings=go
more:
http://web.mit.edu/eventguide/cacfacilities/stata.html
Parking and Transportation:
Creating folder structure and giving folderwise permissions to user.
I want to create a three level folder stucture and in the last folder in each tree pages will be created and users will have permission to access the folder depending upon the permisions given to them. The user who has access to the parent folder should have access to all its child folders. And I want apply workflow to the pages the reviewers and publishers will change according to the folder in which the page is created.
How can I achieve this in drupal?
subdomain woes
I recently wrote a custom php script to catch a grade from Flash (Actionscript2) and pass it to the gradebook. It works fine on my test installation, but when I tried to move it to a subdomain of my production site, I'm getting a failure message from line 1009 of bootstrap.inc. Seems that bootstrap.inc can not find the other include files.
Montreal Drupal Camp w/ education-specific content, October 17th and 18th
Montreal's McGill University will be hosting the 2009 Montreal Drupal Camp taking place on the 17th and 18th of October. The Drupal community will converge for two days of workshops and presentations including education-specific sessions and round table discussions regarding the use of Drupal as both a Content Management System and a Learning Management System.
Additional information can be found at http://www.drupalcampmontreal.com
Booking teacher conferences - which module or modules should I use (drupal 6 site)?
Has anyone come up with a teacher/parent conference booking system yet? Every quarter our teachers need to book conference with parents. Teachers wish to list there available times and have the parents select a time-slot and book the appointment. Is there an easy module for booking appointments? I tried booking_timeslots but it messes up my school calendar, should I use the signup module and make every time slot a node?
Help needed for small Hawaii Charter School.
Module Developer | GoingOn
GoingOn (http://www.goingon.com/) is actively seeking Drupal developers who can create high quality modules for our platform. We are building upon a Spaces, Features and Organic Groups system, so much of the work we will contract out will be building og_spaces compatible features and any modules necessary to drive the feature. We're building a social e-learning platform on Drupal where many of the features will be social, collaboration and education focused.
Student Online Testing
I have a client who has implemented employee training within Drupal and has had much success in showing who has accessed what pages... Now he has asked me to develop an automated testing process. I envision building a tool that will allow him to create tests for each class within a Course. Is there a recommended way using modules that will allow me to create an environment where he can create on-line tests per class? The student would take these tests online and he wants to give them immediate feedback on-line after it is submitted.
Thanks for your ideas!
Drupal Developer - Reading, Berkshire £270 to £320 per day | CNS
I'm looking for a motivated PHP developer to join a highly talented, agile team, working on one of the largest drupal sites in Europe. This site is setting new standards in terms of performance and load for a Drupal install, and they are leading the way in terms of their strategies for Server side includes, Caching, SOLR indexing, and the use of the Cloud.
Working here you'll learn a lot, and be expected to contribute a lot too.
Welcome to the Drupal in Education group. This group is an umbrella group for supporting and discussing the various uses of Drupal in educational settings.
Guidelines - See the these for how to make best use of this recently redesigned group.
DrupalEd - For info on DrupalEd, the Drupal installation profile for education, see here.
