case study

A little over a year ago I implemented Drupal as the main teaching platform in my university classes. I am sharing what it has become so far, and would appreciate feedback:

www.UniCommons.com

Abstract: This case study describes two ways to push data collected within a Flash activity into the Drupal database. The two solutions vary in some important ways: the ability to enable AHAH form submission to avoid page refreshes, the ability to access collected data from Views, the ability to export collected data to a spreadsheet, and of course, ease of implementation. One caveat for both solutions is that they do rely on javascript. The only non-javascript solution I am aware of involves the use of AMFPHP and the Services module. Implementation of these is easy if you are working in AS3. Not so much for AS2.

I am leading an internal team to move the public-facing web site of our PS-12 independent school to Drupal. In this post, I share accomplishments and decisions made so far in an attempt to spread any knowledge that is useful to other institutions and gain your feedback. I consider myself an intermediate Drupal user, so some of the following may seem trivial to advanced users, whereas beginners may find it helpful as they get started. A test site is available for you to view.

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.

Adams 12 Five Star Schools is very pleased to announce our newly-redesigned, SQL Server-powered Drupal Web site! Our site exemplifies the power and flexibility of Drupal. It is also speaks to the quality of community that helps develop, instruct, and support the Drupal project. Without this exceptional and active community, our site would not have been possible. We're continually working to improve our site and welcome your feedback. (Sorry for the delay, I had promised this write up a while ago but have just now had the time to put it together).

Hi folks,

I'm following up on promises I made during the Birds of a Feather sessions at Drupalcon Boston to post a case study of how we're using Drupal at Amherst College. We've developed a module to facilitate hierarchical content creation and permission control that's also of potential interest to folks outside of the academic community.

Preamble aside - about 3 years ago the college decided to fundamentally change the way it was approaching the web, and a little over 2 years ago we started building on top of Drupal. The project had some broad goals:

Hi all,

We at the JEM (Joining Educational Mathematics) have have been experimenting on how to build a Drupal 5.x based Learning Repository on basis top of some of the existing modules, our solution follows the guidelines of IMS LOM Specification.

Can we convert Drupal in public education ... discussion thread to wiki pages of case studies?  I love the conversation, but find it a little hard to have to scroll top to bottom to see who has posted what.  Would it be useful if we create a master wiki page for linking to all case studies and then create a wiki page for each case study?  That way it would be easy to read through all of them.

Greetings!

By day I'm the Webmaster at a mid to large size public school system here in the USA (Frederick County Public Schools, MD). I'm curious to know how many of you out there in Drupal-land are implementing Drupal sites in the public education sector. Some specific questions:

1) Do you support it (server-wise) in house or do you host outside/off campus?

2) Do you host on VPS/dedicated or shared? Linux or Windows?

3) Do you run multi-site configurations?

4) How long have you been running Drupal sites?