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The Open University recently launched a platform based on Drupal.

The site is here: http://www.open.ac.uk/platform/

And a nice write-up of the site is here.

I've been working on a port of the Outline Designer module to Drupal 6 and it's almost ready for release. I've got a demo up of the current progress / direction that the project is taking but it's drastically changed since the Drupal 5 version; both architecturally and in terms of usability. It now piggy-backs functionality of the Ajax, Book, and Thickbox modules. You can check out the demo / screencast below. Feedback is muuuuuch appriciated as this module is still geared towards making Drupal more usable for the education crowd.

Someone posted this to the top level of the Getting Started handbook - good stuff but wrong place!

Here are some links I found useful for teachers dealing with Classroom Management issues. The links are correct at times of posting.

Classroom Management Internet Resources
General Education Classroom

Teaching Today
Provides teaching tips, lesson plans, and more.
http://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/downloads/topic/classroom-management

Classroom Management
http://www.intime.uni.edu/model/teacher/teac3summary.html

I am trying to structure Drupal as a virtual School building.

A school building has corridors. Within these corridors there are a number of class rooms. There are several corridors within a school building. The corridor is basically a container for the rooms.

OG seems the obvious choice for the rooms. Any ideas how I can have a corridor-room structure while using OG

===================Science Corridor========================

Science 1 Room--------Science 2 Room------Science 3 Room---------Science 4 Room

Thanx

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Hello,

Great work on the drupal ed distro and i'm looking forward to reading the new book.

I'm wondering if you have any plans to view SCORM compliant files within drupal.

There's been some developments with the Drupal Scorm Project: http://groups.drupal.org/scorm

Currently this module displays content but it doesn't record any user data (such as how far a user is through the lesson).

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Hi all,

I'm working towards moving our university site (the Vancouver branch of Washington State University) over to drupal. Right now, after months of trial and error on a development server, I'm close to getting started on what will be our new web server, with plans to build up sections of the site department by department. So here's my question:

There are certain Modules in Drupal (D6.6) which are of great value for Education related web sites. One of these Modules is "BIBLIOGRAPHIC MODULE"

http://drupal.org/project/biblio

Which is used for keeping Bibliographic records. It needs updates. The person which maintain this project has no time to do this. I think the Education group should see the value of this module and take over maintenance.

http://drupal.org/node/314284#comment-1084512

So about 2 weeks ago, just before a break from school, I gave a presentation titled Using of Open Source Software in Education which is a topic that discussed quite a bit, but not often at my school. During the presentation I made the observation that if education were more like Open Source, we would solve a lot of problems involving resources that teachers have. In the context I was discussing during the lesson, I viewed a resource as a lesson plan, a worksheet, a test, an image, an audio clip to share with students, etc...