Drupal in Education

I'm working with a few groups of instructors on sites that facilitate lesson plan creation, sharing, and discussion.

We're using the categories module to create several vocabularies like the following:

* Syllabii
* Course Calendars
* Sequence 1 (4)
* Sequence 2
* Sequence 3 (2)
* Themes (2)
      o Art (1)
      o Identity (1)
      o Language
      o Literacy
      o ....

So I've been starting down the path of building a stronger community at Penn State that's interested in Drupal. I know of about 60+ interested parties who at least want some more information about how Drupal could be used at my university. I'm also mentoring 4 or so students / staff in Drupal and as part of that effort, began to write an online book in Drupal to go over the basics or at least provide links out to other locations so they could get up to speed quickly.

I know private uploads been done-to-death in the drupal forums, but I do need fresh, clear advice from other school website maintainers.

For a school website, where many of the uploaded media files will contain images and work of pupils, it is very desirable (almost necessary) to make sure they are protected so that only users with accounts can access them (meaning that urls pointing directly to files should throw a 403 error for anyone not logged into the site).

Hi all,

We have now completed the design and testing for the OAI dataprovider module on learning repositories discussed at http://groups.drupal.org/node/13287

We have registered as a dataprovider at the OAI website and the module in action can be previewed at http://www.jem-thematic.net/lom_oai

The list of features for the module along with the download of the module is available at http://www.jem-thematic.net/en/node/1102

Please test the module and reply any bugs here as a response to this post or over the contact form at http://www.jem-thematic.net/contact

I am developing many new community sites in Drupal 6 and need to integrate them into Moodle for both user and data sharing.

Can anyone help?

Best method/modules for creating a parent/community available email list?
Requirements:
-anonymous subscriptions
-membership management
-bounce processing
-usual mailing list management
-grade level/classroom mailing lists
-announcement mailing lists
-RSS feed source or list emails triggered from postings

Currently running a Drupal 5.7 multi-site installation. Should I look at Drupal as a solution or utilizing existing mailing lists (phpList, Mailman) software?

Hi all,

There's been some previous interest and discussion in a SCORM implementation for Drupal - Nine Lanterns now has a (very modestly) funded project that will need to have SCORM objects use the SCORM API to set and get data, so we are starting work on this now - if anyone else is working on this please get in contact and so we can avoid duplicate effort!

Thanks to jjkd for making a great start on the SCORM wiki docs previously.

So I've been starting down the path of building a stronger community at Penn State that's interested in Drupal. I know of about 60+ interested parties who at least want some more information about how Drupal could be used at my university. I'm also mentoring 4 or so students / staff in Drupal and as part of that effort, began to write an online book in Drupal to go over the basics or at least provide links out to other locations so they could get up to speed quickly. This began my thinking of a drupal@psu resource until I began to think a bit more about the resource.

I am beginning the development of an interactive course in computer music production as part of a larger educational research project. I have some experience in Drupal already and I want to capitalise on this and expand my knowledge of the system.
The project does not have a big community element although there will be different user classes i.e. student/educator/admin

The main requirements are:

Students view and educators view - I'm thinking of a 3 column design with nav and course pages for students and an extra column for teachers/facilitators