Drupal 6 and Moodle
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timmillwood - Thu, 2008-07-31 14:54
I am developing many new community sites in Drupal 6 and need to integrate them into Moodle for both user and data sharing.
Can anyone help?
More details. . .
Did you have a specific question you wanted answered? Do you want to hire some one? What you've written is really vague.
Kyle Mathews
using drupal to convert and redesign website
Kyle,
First, I am intersted but no expert in web design and I have just started to use Drupal.
Given that, I am the webmaster of my son's school website, www.ps150.net.
I am redesigning it and thinking that drupal would be a good platform. I noticed there is a drupaled module, but it is unclear what it does or how full featured it is. So I was looking for some more information on drupal ed.
Then I would like to hire someone (I do this on a volunteer basis and the school does not have a lot of money, but I can ask for some) to help me both learn drupal and design the site. I am interested in how moving from a pretty static site to a site with discussion groups and blogs and increase communication among parents and between the school administration and parents -- always and area of poor communication.
That about it. I wish I could be more technical, but I am in the beginning of this process.
Another project where I definitely want to hire someone who knows civicrm is how to get that working on a website I am converting to drupal for my lake association.
Mitchell
In my experience working
In my experience working with School Districts in Kansas, at least, I find that if the teachers are not digitally native, there's a huge training and comfort issue that you're taking on that has little or nothing to do with Drupal -- it's independent of any package you use. If the teachers are not ready for your site, the community will lay fallow.
That said, I don't think that's a reason not to go ahead and move forward with Drupal, by any means. What I love about Drupal is that it makes it easy for you or a couple of people to maintain the content while it remains a very web 1.0 site, and then, over time, as users bloom and find they're ready to take on some of the functionality, it's already there, in place, just waiting for them to start using it.
Looking at the existing site you've linked (briefly), I'm not seeing a lot of interactive course work being delivered on the current site. As much as you might like the idea of delivering Moodle with Drupal, I don't think you need the things Moodle brings -- course management, testing and assessment tools, etc. Someday, maybe, but for now I think Drupal on it's own is probably a big enough step in the right direction.
For what it's worth, Drupaled isn't really a module at all -- it's what amounts to an install package of sorts - a collection of modules and configuration options pre-set to fit an educational setting. I think that's why you might be finding that the description isn't quite as clear as you're expecting -- a module can have a very specific purpose and scratch a very specific itch. But Drupaled is a sort of head start, a set of ideas and suggestions that move in a specific direction . . . and that's necessarily harder to describe. But I learned a lot from setting up a Drupaled site and checking out the way it was set up -- it's a training class of it's own just pulling it apart to see how the modules work, and work together.
j
Ditto the need for specificity
Where are you drawing the line between the applications?
What will users do in Moodle?
What will users do in Drupal?
What data, if any, will need to be passed between the applications?
If we start here, we can then work on adding additional detail --
Thanks,
Bill
FunnyMonkey
Tools for Teachers
The drupal sites will be
The drupal sites will be virtual communities for teachers, students, parent examiners. These are all setup using multi-site structures, organic groups and many other modules.
The Moodle site will be used to teach the students and train the teachers and examiners. The two will need to link both users and data.
I consider myself to be good drupal developer but never used moodle.
There are some Drupal / Moodle integration efforts
Take a look at these 3 Drupal projects:
http://drupal.org/project/moodle
http://drupal.org/project/moodlesso
http://drupal.org/project/moodle_courselist
I'm the module owner for the Moodle Module, and will be adding functionality to meet some requirements for my employer's client. These changes will targeted at Drupal 6 and Moodle 1.9.
Thanks
I will definitely use these when they are ported to 6. I may use course list now.
Currently my moodle and drupal sites are on different servers so i'm not sure if this would cause me any problems.