Open Atrium & Gradebook Module for E-learning Feature

Hia, this is very much in line with what we are doing / trying to do. We will most probably not use Open Atrium as such, but rather build our own site with use of Spaces, Context and Features. However, what we do should be possible to employ easily in OA too.

We are currently heavily developing the Quiz module, and as soon as Quiz 4 is ready and stable we will continue with making it feature-friendly, so you can build Quiz features that can be used in Open Atrium or other sites with spaces_og and Features.

We haven't looked much at gradebook as we will use this mostly for learning outside of a school / university environment, but are planning to create a "Certification" module integrated with Quiz, see http://drupal.org/node/501874 -

Other modules / features we believe an OA LMS would need is a forum, a tweaked book module better suited for learning material (open / close dates, maybe learning paths etc), possibly a chat, possibly a messaging system. Anyhow, interesting discussion, and nice to see more people seeing this potential with OA / Spaces / Features :)

All,
I'd like to share two features with the community quiz and training - but I don't know how to attached the feature code here. Can someone help. They were built by some drupal consultants called QWAY solutions. Andy was my contact there and they did everything (their icons / artwork). I figured I'd release the features to the community as a starting point. They rebuilt some of the quiz function from the ground up I think. And if you need any additional OpenAtrium work done, I can recommend them. And I think their design work is great too (they did the icons).

Cheers,
--Malcolm.

A lot of these features would be ideal for the Drupal Kata, a homegrown project learning program running on Open Atrium. Possibly we could not only integrate, showcase, but help develop some of these features as a learning project.

Open Atrium is the most exciting thing (for my eyes) to come along in a while, embodying Dries' Drupalcon-DC keynote comment about how coordination trumps planning. As an easy-to-use, modular collaboration tool for all sorts of environments, I look forward to getting under the hood of the distribution I just downloaded and figuring out how to add BaseCampish features.

For educational settings, I'm not so keen on turning Open Atrium into Moodle (or GradeQuick) though....My sense is that Drupal's role in education is about authentic empowerment - particularly empowering students and teachers to develop collaborative online learning environments together and then reach out to the community with.

Moodle, on the other hand, is an incredibly powerful tool for "closed" online learning - doing the same thing over and over again with a set group of students, providing tests and grades and all that "SO twentieth century!" stuff. I'm sure most schools out there are still mired in those visions, but Drupalers know how we learn best. Argue with me?

I hope the Atrium stays open, not only in its code, but in its attitude toward the "architecture" of the spaces it can and will create as it propagates.

Development Seed are geniuses. No arguments there, I trust!

-Bram

Hi mkmckinn, I'd like to take a look at the features but could not find the link to download, can you tell me how to get them? How is the V2 going?
regards
Peter

Not really sure how to post - tried uploading to this list, but it spam rejected me and I don't have a feature server.

Can you post a tar or zip file to http://drupalkata.com/curriculum/documents

I'd love to take a look at it as well.
Thanks!

If someone succeeded in uploading these features, I'm sure I'm not alone in being very interested in trying what you've done. Please post a URL or a link or a feature server or ...?

Thank you,

David