Drupal in Education

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.

Top 10 Modules for educational site?

Posted by bob_irving on December 19, 2008 at 6:51pm

What are your votes for the 10 most useful contributed modules?

For my purposes, I'm adding classes and then having each class have a social networking/personal learning eniro/e-portfolio space.

I'm asking because I'm starting the site over from scratch, due to some unfortunate circumstances while attempting to upgrade from D5 to D6. Don't ask. :)

So I want to only install what I will use and build it slowly from the ground up. I figure it will be a good learning experience for me and also help to ensure that we don't experience "module bloat".

An old Tech Learning Article

Posted by rryan on December 19, 2008 at 5:11pm

Here's an older post I sent in detailing our use of OG in a middle school last year to Tech Learning. I'm working in a different district now and want to replicate the experience on a broader scale with 4 schools. I'm in the process of getting design help, moving to a hosted environment and re-learning some of the OG stuff I learned last year. Much of our success was predicated on Bill's work with his DrupalEd distro. I've had a number of other schools and teacher ask if it was hard to do after seeing how responsive and flexible Drupal can be.

http://is.gd/cxqb

Drupal Classes or Courses at 3rd level/Uni/College, online or face to face?

Posted by heather on December 18, 2008 at 5:30pm

Does anyone know of academic institutions offering classes or courses which cover Drupal?

Both face to face and/or online?

NB: Not courses using Drupal as a medium, rather: Drupal as the subject matter.

I would love to hear from lecturers who are planning courses, or who have taught Drupal in their courses. I would like to see examples, how they fit in to the existing academic programmes in their institutions, how they promote it, and what the outcomes have been.

Thank you!

Interesting post on teaching with Drupal

Posted by bonobo on December 17, 2008 at 1:36pm

Hello, all,

I came across this post today: http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2008/12/11/validation-of-my-crac...

It has a great quote from a student that highlights the strength of Drupal when used as a teaching tool:

I’ve been using Drupal for my classes as its flexibility supports my more constructivist approach to teaching. As one of my students wrote:

Best solution for assignment calendar?

Posted by bob_irving on December 16, 2008 at 8:10pm

If I just want to post daily/weekly assignments that are viewable daily/weekly/monthly, what would be my best solution? I'm using OG, and I read somewhere that the calendar module doesn't work well with OG. Is that true?

I'm looking for something really simple to manage on my end, and use on the student end.

Drupalcon DC -- help vote my education session in!

Posted by btopro on December 8, 2008 at 8:25pm

http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/node/2110

Here's the write up for it. Please help vote us in so that education can be represented in the presentations at Drupalcon DC! If you're going make sure to do a write up and submit it too as the deadline is coming up soon! Education makes up a good part of the community and the more visibility the better it is for everyone!!

Abstract:

PLE's, PLN's in Drupal?

Posted by bob_irving on December 8, 2008 at 2:21pm

Has anyone had any experience with setting up/using Drupal as a Personal Learning Environment or Personal Learning Network?

I'm looking at experimenting with a 10th grade class.

Also, if you know of any Best of Class PLE's you can point me to, that would be great.

TIA,
Bob

DrupalEd logo

Posted by Himanshu on December 4, 2008 at 5:00pm

here is a drupalEd Logo that I created. Thanks for brilliant artist how created the drupal!

Only local images are allowed.

Internet Explorer Slow Loading of Pages

Posted by jitj on December 4, 2008 at 1:30pm

I'm working to roll out some new district and building sites using zen theme as a base and am finding that the Internet Explorer pages are taking 5-7 seconds to load while firefox loads the pages almost instantly. Any ideas on what I might have done wrong in theming the site ( http://www.zps.org )?

So far I have tried turning off modules, using YSlow, using online page analysis tools, and changing out graphics. It feels like I may have some CSS issue...just not sure.

Thanks to anyone who might be willing to take a quick look and point me in some direction.

DrupalED Update 5.12

Posted by Himanshu on December 3, 2008 at 11:25am

Hi I have upgraded the drupalED 5.6 to drupal 5.12 and the have also updated the other modules available.
You can download the files from
http://www.stxaviers.edu.in/drupaled.tar.gz

The pack contains phpmyadmin dump and drupal 5.12.

user ID 1: admin
pass: ineedchange

Just import the database file drupaled.sql.zip to phpmyadmin
change the sites/default/settings.php as per your need
( Dont forget to change the mysql password and database name etc)

Open University launches a community platform with Drupal

Posted by bonobo on November 28, 2008 at 2:23pm

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.

Dimdim (Web conferencing) integration

Posted by gusaus on November 26, 2008 at 10:18pm
Last updated by matt.robinson1 on Wed, 2009-12-02 04:42

Project Information

Project page on drupal.org: http://drupal.org/project/dimdim
Apprentice: Matthew Sielski (MatteusX on d.o and g.d.o)
Mentor: (Need to establish mentoring arrangement. Aaron Winborn may be a possibility considering his offer to co-maintain the module.)
Co-mentor(s):
Local mentor(s):

Current status: organizing online resources, formulating a list of module requirements

Drupal support sprint tonight, 8-10pm ET

Posted by ebrittwebb on November 25, 2008 at 12:03am

Hi All,

Just wanted to alert you that tonight, 8-10pm ET, there is a Drupal support sprint on IRC #drupal-support.

Read more about it at http://bit.ly/L92x

Erik

Outline Designer for Drupal 6!!!!

Posted by btopro on November 19, 2008 at 11:45pm

I've been working on a port of the Outline Designer module to Drupal 6 and it's almost ready for release. I've got a demo up of the current progress / direction that the project is taking but it's drastically changed since the Drupal 5 version; both architecturally and in terms of usability. It now piggy-backs functionality of the Ajax, Book, and Thickbox modules. You can check out the demo / screencast below. Feedback is muuuuuch appriciated as this module is still geared towards making Drupal more usable for the education crowd.

Classroom Management Internet Resources

Posted by HansBKK on November 17, 2008 at 10:39am

Someone posted this to the top level of the Getting Started handbook - good stuff but wrong place!

Here are some links I found useful for teachers dealing with Classroom Management issues. The links are correct at times of posting.

Classroom Management Internet Resources
General Education Classroom

Teaching Today
Provides teaching tips, lesson plans, and more.
http://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/downloads/topic/classroom-management

Classroom Management
http://www.intime.uni.edu/model/teacher/teac3summary.html

Drupal School building

Posted by gmasky on November 16, 2008 at 2:42am

I am trying to structure Drupal as a virtual School building.

A school building has corridors. Within these corridors there are a number of class rooms. There are several corridors within a school building. The corridor is basically a container for the rooms.

OG seems the obvious choice for the rooms. Any ideas how I can have a corridor-room structure while using OG

===================Science Corridor========================

Science 1 Room--------Science 2 Room------Science 3 Room---------Science 4 Room

Thanx

Do It With Drupal Discount for Education

Posted by jjeff on November 12, 2008 at 3:34pm

Hello Educators!

I'd like to extend a 10% registration discount for The Do It With Drupal Seminar to everyone in the Drupal Education group. To receive the discount enter the code EDUCATION at the checkout. This discount code expires on November 21st (a week from tomorrow).

Do It With Drupal is a large-scale conference-style learning event happening in New Orleans, December 10, 11, and 12th. We've got a lot of superstar speakers from both Drupal and the greater web community. The event is being organized by Lullabot and features speakers such as Earl Miles (Views), Karen Stevenson (CCK), Moshe Weitzman (Organic Groups), John Resig (author of jQuery), Chris Pirillo (Lockergnome), Heather Champ (Flickr Community Manager), Chris Messina (Flock, DiSo, etc), Angie Byron (Drupal 7 maintainer), and many more.

For more information about the event please visit http://doitwithdrupal.com . Be sure not to miss the latest schedule and the blog for the latest news.

SCORM

Posted by sphism on November 7, 2008 at 4:19pm

Hello,

Great work on the drupal ed distro and i'm looking forward to reading the new book.

I'm wondering if you have any plans to view SCORM compliant files within drupal.

There's been some developments with the Drupal Scorm Project: http://groups.drupal.org/scorm

Currently this module displays content but it doesn't record any user data (such as how far a user is through the lesson).

Multisite questions

Posted by aaront on November 6, 2008 at 9:59pm

Hi all,

I'm working towards moving our university site (the Vancouver branch of Washington State University) over to drupal. Right now, after months of trial and error on a development server, I'm close to getting started on what will be our new web server, with plans to build up sections of the site department by department. So here's my question:

Biblio records, an important project for Education

Posted by droshani on October 30, 2008 at 4:21pm

There are certain Modules in Drupal (D6.6) which are of great value for Education related web sites. One of these Modules is "BIBLIOGRAPHIC MODULE"

http://drupal.org/project/biblio

Which is used for keeping Bibliographic records. It needs updates. The person which maintain this project has no time to do this. I think the Education group should see the value of this module and take over maintenance.

http://drupal.org/node/314284#comment-1084512

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