Drupal in Education

Just moved our school districts site over to our new drupal based site. There are a total of 8 school sites and our district site.

http://www.sdmaonline.com

I tried adding this to the resource page but did not have permissions.

Hi, this is just a question seeking for suggestions. For classroom teaching receiving students' submission on an essay assignment, grading the essay with comments, and then returning the comments back to students is something very time consuming. I am thinking to ask students to post their essays as a (book page, story, blog...?) to course Drupal site, and I will use Adding Comment to write feedback so that there will be no email, download, attach, etc tasks.

I've been given the task of re-doing a state school board association website entirely. Right now it's on Typo3, which has proven too difficult of a learning curve for those involved, and it's too difficult to make it "pretty." For a slew of other reasons, I'm trying to sell the switch to Drupal.

I'm 90% sure I want Drupal. Especially over Joomla because of SEO and the ability to control what different viewers can access.

I have different types of viewers:
*The average School Board Member
*Members who have paid to have access to Policy information

I'm trying to find reference and a solution to a single sign-on approach. We have a mixed server environment with the following;
* IIS .net application
* another IIS .net application
* an apache java application
* a moodle application
* a drupal application
* a WPMU instance
* possibly a MediaWiki instance
* a hosted video streaming application
I'd like to work toward creating a single sign-on across all these apps. What options are available to me?
Sincerely, Peter

Hi All;

I have been trying to setup a "learning section" for a website dedicated to the education if professional oncologists and have been using Drupal with fairly good results, however, I have a problem when it comes to the testing, scoring, examinations and general user interaction/contributions. There appears to be nothing available that will handle quizzes, exams etc. other than the 'Quiz' module [which works very nicely - for what it does].

Hi everybody,

I wanted to ping the group regarding "best practice" or advice on building a new site that will replace our current K12 District site. Do you think it is best to build it local on say a laptop using wampserver and then migrate it over to a host and how hard is this? Or....install it on a spare server I have in our server room using a temp domain name and then migrate it over to a host (again how difficult is the migration process). Looking for advice from all of you who I am sure have done this many times or at least once and what strategy you recommend. Thanks!!

Hey folks, this past Friday I gave a presentation to a high school class about open source. It was just generically explaining what it is and why they might want to check it out. At the end I offered to come back and do more technical sessions on actually using Drupal. This is something I've been wanting to do for a while and I just happened into a lucky circumstance to be presented with the opportunity.

I have been working for a day now on a discipline module for Drupal. Basically it allows an administrator to enter demeritis/merits to certain users (student role). I just wanted to get some of your input about it. I started working on it because I had noticed that it had been proposed along with the gradebook module and as far as I can tell, this has not yet been developed. If this has been developed please steer me in the right direction to find the module.