Drupal in Education

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.

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.

http://acquia.com/community/resources/acquia-tv/dries-buytaerts-mit-pres...

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 -

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!

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?

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

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.

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.