Welcome to the Drupal in Education group. This group is an umbrella group for supporting and discussing the various uses of Drupal in educational settings.
List of education institutions using Drupal.
Transcript of the Drupal Guilds Presentation
Here is an idealized transcript of the recent Drupal Dojo session I did regarding the proposed Drupal Guilds, which you can watch here if you didn't catch it earlier:
Also, here are the slides I used during the presentation, which the headers generally refer to, if you want to follow along the text:
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dgdc84wd_79g4wmzcf9
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VoiceBox Alpha Release
Hello, all,
We have an alpha release ready of VoiceBox, our Knight Drupal Initiative project -
The project is a community media/feed aggregator/news space/conversation space. A high level run down of the featureset includes:
- Customizable user profiles;
- Discussions with embedded images, audio, and video;
- Publishing pictures, audio, and video via mobile devices and/or email;
- Content aggregation via rss;
Transitioning and Managing a University Wide Migration to a Single Drupal Site
Hello, Is it possible to run a large university site with many themes and the roles of different content editors on a single installation? We are in the early stages of recommending a CMS for our university and this has been a question that has been raised multiple times with no clear answer about Drupal. I am seeking feedback, configurations and best practices on transitioning university wide web pages to a common Drupal installation.
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Deciding how to structure a school's intranet
How are people defining classrooms? Are you making a group for each class or are you using taxonomy? Have you got the dashboard working showing all of a student's assignments? Is gradebook working right? Please share what you've learned about the best way to organize classrooms in organic groups.
Here's what I'm doing: I am using OA (Beta 8) as a classroom tool for schools; the promise of team-based projects is the attraction. Having an easy, and also slick, way to do this is great.
But I am struggling with how to organize the groups.
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What's new in video module 6.x-4.1-rc6
Today we released the latest video module release video 6.x-4.1-rc6 and we added number of new features to the video module.
First we added several new features to the FFMPEG conversion, now video module is allow your to convert video for progressive download and we changed the module to use latest FFMPEG with fallback to older versions.
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Open university system
Hello friends!
I hear at the acquia webinar that OpenScholar planing to integrate some university functional.
I discussed few projects for universities and large medical centers and I think that such sites need microsites with own spaces and features for faculties or departments.
I decided to built this system. I think this system could be very expected, because it meets requirments of large communities. Imagine community of some association with main site and many microsites of organizations who make this community.
School District Multisite Shared Calendar?
So we run our school district main page as well as a separate site for each of our schools with the multi site feature of Drupal. There is a main District site and then 9 more sites, one for each school with a separate database for each school. Each of these individual sites maintains their own calendar using the calendar and date modules. I was recently asked if we could have the calendar on the main district site fed by all of the individual site calendars. Using the feeds module has gotten me close but not quiet there.
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Drupalcamp Montreal 2010
Hello everyone,
Montreal’s third annual Drupalcamp will take place on Saturday the 23rd and Sunday the 24th, October, 2010. McGill University will once again host the event, to be held this year at the McIntyre Medical Building at 3655 Promenade Sir William Osler on downtown campus. Many of the sessions will have education-specific content. Details will follow in the coming weeks on the www.drupalcampmontreal.com web site.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
UPDATE: Registration and proposals for sessions are now open on www.drupalcampmontreal.com.
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Strengthening open source in Nigeria
Firstly, this discussion is inspired by a discussion I had with Abayomi Ayoola (murpheus) about LinuxFest event we intend to organize in Nigeria.
The discussion goes like this:
[9/9/2010 2:07:45 PM] Abayomi Ayoola: I sent an email to Linux Foundation
[9/9/2010 2:08:12 PM] Abayomi Ayoola: and they would be glad to sponsor LinuxCon or LinuxFest in Nigeria
[9/9/2010 2:08:25 PM] Kayode Odeyemi: cool
[9/9/2010 2:08:45 PM] Kayode Odeyemi: so what's your plan
[9/9/2010 2:31:56 PM] Abayomi Ayoola: I think they usually cover the whole event
What is your webserver OS?
Hello everyone. In an attempt to try to get our operations team to switch our web server OS from Solaris I need to try to gather some information on what Operating System other Universities are using. If you could take the time to post what OS you are using and what University you are from that would be really helpful to me. Thank you in advance.
Adam Moore
University of California, Merced
OpenScholar and Social Media Classroom
Wanted to let folks know that the Drupal 6 and eventually Drupal 7 upgrade for the http://socialmediaclassroom.com project is going to be done in a way that will make it:
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An optional install profile to use with OpenScholar as base
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The features of "Blog, Forum, Wiki, Chatroom, Social Bookmarking, Learning E-Portfolio (and microblog and RSS and other data import in Drupal 6 version)" will also be features available for other types of sites if the OpenScholar install profile is run.
Drupal Tips'N Tricks Webinar
Drupal - Tips and Tricks!
Join OHO's tech team for a great discussion and demo of a number of 'tips and tricks' around best practices in Drupal. During the webinar, you'll hear from Langdon White, Michael Rossetti, and Akeem Williams. (Architects and senior Drupal developers/designers)
Integrating Drupal with other platforms
Using Drupal's SEO modules
Exploring multi-site options
Theming: Do's and Don'ts
Register for the no cost webinar @ http://www.oho.com/webinar
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Is there a Drupal moodle port (LMS distribution) project
Moodle is great, but I'm still surprised by some of the clunkiness and bugs in it. It seems like it would work better and be more extensible if "ported" (not exactly) to run on top of the drupal platform.
I was just wondering if there is already a Drupal LMS install profile or bundle available. I see the active work being done on the drupal quiz and gradebook modules.
If there isn't, then perhaps some folks might want to see if there any funding for such an effort, too.
Thanks
Read moreOnline Forms and security
Hello,
I would love some feedback / discussion regarding security and the submission of online forms using sensitive data. I work for a small college and our website is hosting in a shared environment. There has been discussion about making the college application form, application for residence form and a few others available online. What tips / concerns can you provide to securely get the information from the user in an encrypted fashion?
My primary concerns are storage of private information on a shared server and emailing of private information in an unencrypted fashion.
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Access control problem with gradebook and organic groups.
Hi all:
I'm trying to create a digital notebook for use in my school. I'm using organic groups and Gradebook. I guess my problem have a simple solution, but I am not able to find it. I want that when a student response to one assignment, this response can only be seen by the teacher and the student himself, not by the other students. I can not do it. When a student answer the teacher's task, the response is always seen within the group. I used the content access module, but it does not work. All the students in the group can see the response. Could you give me a hand? Thanks.
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Harvard & Acquia OpenScholar Demonstration
Join Acquia, and Harvard’s Institute of Quantitative Social Science as we present Open Scholar, a Drupal solution for higher education.
Register Now: http://acquia.com/resources/webinars/open-scholar-drupal-solution-higher...
Read moreDrupal and Sub sites
I am working on migrating our entire College site into Drupal.
We have 50+ sub sites (sub directories, not subdomains) that will need their own "site".
We will be using LDAP to authenticate users.
Each user will have the ability to edit content, upload files, add images and video, add edit and delete pages etc.
I would like to have one point of update for Drupal core files and installed modules for all sites.
I would think that having separate db's for each site makes sense, but I could also argue the other way as well.
Need beta testers for Drupal-based online lesson planner
I'm looking for beta testers for an online lesson planner I'm building in Drupal.
The site includes a lesson planner, simple todo lists, and a calendar for scheduling classes.
If you're interested in trying it out in exchange for some feedback on how well it fits your needs as a teacher, I'd love to hear from you.
Go to http://www.creativechalk.com and click the big "Join the beta" button.
Fill out the sign-up form and I'll get you set up with a beta account.
Thanks heaps,
- Stein
Eduglu Alpha 4 is here!
I'm pleased to announce the fourth developer release of Eduglu. Download it at http://eduglu.com/download-eduglu
For this release, we've ported to Eduglu the excellent Notebook feature from Open Atrium, a Drupal-based intranet package. This is a great example of the power of open source development, that improvements to one branch of the Drupal family tree can easily shared and reused on another branch. Expect to seem more of this as the larger Eduglu/Drupal ecosystem grows.
Along with this major addition, there was the normal assortment of bug fixes plus small visual touch-ups.
Read moreCiviCRM User and Administrator Training in Los Angeles - August 17th 2010
A comprehensive one day hands on training course covering the configuration, administration, and every-day use of CiviCRM. This event is aimed at administrators and technical users at organisations that are either using CiviCRM, or interested in evaluating it. It is also useful for staff at organisations that develop or implement CiviCRM who need a complete understanding of "out of the box" features and configuration options.
Agenda
We try to be flexible with the agenda to meet participant requirements and expectations, and the final agenda may change. Topics will include:
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