E-Learning and Drupal and ELMS (oh my!)

* What company / university / school system do you work for? - Penn State University
* Geographic location:  State College, PA
* What sector do you work in? (Higher Ed, K-12, edu consulting, other?) Higher Education
* How long have you been in the field? Been working part-time / full-time for the university on drupal / e-learning related topics since Spring '05
* Have you developed anything custom or is it all public modules? (if so, which ones?) ELMS (e-learning management system), Assignment Studio, Rubricator, a few other random ones.  We base all our sites off of Views, CCK (A LOT of submodules for it too), Webserver_auth (cleaned up to work for 5.x), URL Alias, and book are our major ones though there are many many others.
* What kind of Drupal Edu sites are you running? (courses, LMS, school site, department site, etc)  We run an LMS, course sites, and our department's website off drupal.  It has been my policy for the last year to not put a new site on the web off of our domain unless it was done in Drupal.
* Any problems you're currently trying to overcome? (code, administration or otherwise) Getting help / hiring people to handle all the mini drupal theme / module / site projects floating around.  We have an issue of having almost too many good ideas at the moment and no where near the staff to be able to handle them all.  We also were having issues with getting my code out into the public but they have recently been alieviated.  Also general server load as right now we only have 1 box running everything so scalability has been kinda a scary issue for us.
* Why Drupal instead of...oh, i dono, moodle or any proprietary system (like angel, webCT or blackboard)? We currently use angel and since we're in the College of Arts & Architecture the lack of "pretty" theming in that system just felt too limiting to the visual nature of our content.  Also, the workflow for assignment submission was terrible for one of our courses.  I knew some drupal at the time I was presented with making that workflow easier and so that's what we ran with initially.  I also feel that drupal is a lot more powerful then moodle in terms of look-and-feel as well as backend expandability.  When it came down to it it was luck, my skills, and the framework that caused us to choose drupal over any of the alternative products out there.  I knew it didn't do what we wanted out of the box, but I also knew I could make it do what we wanted to.
* How do you handle authentication? Webserver_auth module modified to work with our systems and 5.x drupal.  We have a single sign on system at the university based off of cosign (http://weblogin.org/).  We then pipe in user accounts / match them against a teamlist API provided by angel so that we know students are only able to access the courses they are currently enroled in.  This also pulls across their first name, last name and group association so  instructors don't need to manage user accounts (and either do students!).  No one ever knows how much of a pain it would be without all this system integration and that's how it always should be! :-)
* Anything you "need"? Developers / thinkers to help take e-learning to the next level :-)