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.

The Annotation Field Module

Posted by bonobo on April 21, 2008 at 7:12pm

I just saw this: http://drupal.org/project/annotationfield

From the description:

Want to highlight text, clip a video, or select a section of an image? This module is CCK nodereference on steroids. Annotation Field references not just a node, but a specific revision, field, and intra-field information (like a portion of text).

Why is there resistance at your school / college towards using Drupal?

Posted by btopro on April 21, 2008 at 3:39am

Established CMS like blackboard, webCT, etc. do most of what we need.

20% (5 votes)

There is a lack of understanding of what Drupal could do for us.

20% (5 votes)

There is a lack of technical expertise in house in order to implement Drupal.

24% (6 votes)

There is fear of moving into the open source and "unsupported" platform of Drupal.

12% (3 votes)

*gasp* Moodle is in use AND free AND educationally focused out of the box.

8% (2 votes)

Never thought of using it for education before.

0% (0 votes)

I'm not sure what you're talking about, there's no resistance, they love Drupal!

16% (4 votes)

Total votes: 25

Drupal V Blackboard Prosites

Posted by rdalton on April 18, 2008 at 4:04pm

I am new to Drupal - Just created a new drupal website. My question to this group is this: I would like to add functionality similar to Blackboard's Prosites to my online package. Since I am a novice, I don't know if Drupal will be able to do this? Any ideas or comments?

Thanks

School lab / classroom question

Posted by hippogriffe on April 17, 2008 at 6:49pm

I run a Drupal installation which I have been using happily in a Drama 10 classroom, mainly for the collaborative composition of theatrical scripts. Happily, that is, until I asked my students one day in the school lab to send me a message concerning an assignment. Everyone reported receiving an error message indicating they had sent three messages, but indeed had not. The message form didn't show.

I apologize for posting this here if I am not supposed to, and would appreciate guidance. Can anyone explain to me, please, what is happening, and how to resolve it?

Good Theme for Education

Posted by matthewboh on April 14, 2008 at 3:53pm

I'm going to do two different shows at the end of April and in mid-May. I would like to have a sample Drupal site running at my booth to show off Drupal vs. Schoolwires. Here's an example of a Schoolwires web site - http://www.burgettstown.k12.pa.us/btown/site/default.asp. (All for the incredibly low price of $160k per year!) Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Intergrating CiviCRM for Online Shool Directory

Posted by SamRose on April 11, 2008 at 4:43pm
Last updated by ebrittwebb on Mon, 2008-10-06 23:40

A quick jot down draft/draft. Please expect this page to change soon, and become far more detailed/formal after a few more discussions with project participants)

This is connected to threads in GDO CiviCRM/Education group and a CiviCRM Forum.

Here is a quick draft use-case:

Users:

Site adminsitrators
Parents
Taxpayers (people who pay taxes but do not have students in school)

Parent Use Cases:

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Guidelines for Drupal in Education Group

Posted by ebrittwebb on April 10, 2008 at 4:23pm
Last updated by catchlight on Tue, 2009-02-17 21:39

These best practices are by the members and for the members of this group. If you'd like to improve them, please edit this page.

Or, if you'd prefer just to leave feedback, comment on this thread: Group Redesign in Progress.

Navigating this Group

Group Redesign in Progress

Posted by ebrittwebb on April 9, 2008 at 4:01am

Okay, you've probably noticed that the Drupal in Education group redesign is now in progress. Let me know what you think.

One thing I did notice...when I tested the new group homepage in FireFox, I got what I expected -- Upcoming Events and Job Posts side by side. But, when I looked at it in IE 7, the Upcoming Events and Job Posts boxes are stacked. Anyone else notice this?

Diigo, Educational tool or best educational tool

Posted by btopro on April 8, 2008 at 1:40pm

If you've never herd of Diigo.com (as I haddn't before last week) then you should probably go and research it a bit. It's like delicious on steroids and integrated better then any product I've found yet. This has been posted on here because I've created a drupal in education group: http://groups.diigo.com/groups/drupal-in-education

2nd ELMS module released: HTML Export!

Posted by btopro on April 7, 2008 at 10:15pm

The second module in the ELMS project, HTML Export [3], was released today in beta form on drupal.org. It is a very lightweight module that only generates a settings page at the moment. Click yes you want to export to HTML and then submit. It will churn for a bit and crank out an offline copy of your entire node structure for your site. This is most useful with books as their menu system is done automatically in a block if you turn it on. So far it is very limited (only publishes ALL nodes in anonymous view to a random directory that it links you to).

Almost completely newbie

Posted by winner66-gdo on April 6, 2008 at 9:05pm

I'm interested in developing a CMS where to migrate my school web site. So far, I've tried Joomla and I was very satisfied with the look and the functions I was testing. But now I have just found this group who seem to be exclusively devoted to educational issues within Drupal.
I know, I know.. if you all are here that's because you already made your decision. But how could I be definitively convinced to make mine? Any objective criteria out there? What's for Drupal which is not for Joomla?

Thanks in advance.

Suggestions for implementing Drupal across a large school district...

Posted by mediacurrent on April 4, 2008 at 9:34pm

All,
I work for a boutique Drupal shop based in Atlanta called Mediacurrent (www.mediacurrent.com).

Higher Education Web Symposium

Posted by nategasser on April 4, 2008 at 12:55pm

Start:

2008-07-15 (All day) - 2008-07-16 (All day) US/Eastern

Event type:

User group meeting

On July 15th & 16th, the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine will host the Higher Education Web Symposium.

This two-day conference will provide tools, tips and techniques for web designers, developers, programmers, and project managers to help us all create better and more usable applications and websites. Jared Spool leads off the all star cast of presenters. Additional scheduled presenters include: Eric Meyer, Dana Chisnell, Stephanie Sullivan, and others!

Drupal in Ed - Group Redesign Discussion

Posted by ebrittwebb on April 3, 2008 at 7:40am

Now that the new OG Panels functionality is in place and being impressively displayed by groups like Drupal Dojo, should we consider doing the same for the Drupal in Education group? Apparently they hosted a Drupal Dojo Group Barnraising event on March 30. You can watch the screencast to get the gist of what they covered.

Drupal in Ed - Group Redesign Specifications

Posted by ebrittwebb on April 3, 2008 at 7:35am
Last updated by btopro on Sun, 2008-04-06 04:00

This is a wiki page where we can capture all of our design plans for the new Drupal in Education group. Below are the specifications for the tabs and sub-tabs. Please feel free to edit these, or if you'd rather, comment on them in the Drupal in Ed - Group Redesign Discussion. This design draws heavily on what the Drupal Dojo group did.

Case study: running a small college site with drupal

Posted by David.Hamilton on March 28, 2008 at 8:35pm

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:

Outline Designer - First ELMS module released!!!

Posted by btopro on March 27, 2008 at 10:49pm

The outline designer has been posted to drupal.org ( http://drupal.org/project/outline_designer ).

This is the first module in an installation profile which will be ELMS - e-Learning Management System. More information about the ELMS project see the ELMS attack plan posted on the e-Learning Institute's projects site.

Learning Repository on Drupal

Posted by aalamaki on March 19, 2008 at 1:12pm

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.

Multisite Manager

Posted by schuyler1d on March 14, 2008 at 3:23pm

At DrupalCon 08, I demo'd my module multisite_manager. This is only peripherally related to Drupal in Education, and for that I apologize. However, there was some interest at the education BOF, so I figured I'd post here on updates (and unless encouraged further, I won't mention it here again).

Memetracker module proposal

Posted by kyle_mathews on March 12, 2008 at 10:51pm

Summary:
I want to write two modules for Drupal as part of Google Summer of Code. One called meme_tracker and the other called machine_learning_api. The meme_tracker module will use the machine_learning_api to intelligently filter and group content from both internal and external content sources. The module's purpose is to find and display to a community in real time the most interesting conversations and memes within the community as they emerge.

Hello Drupliers. My name is Kyle Mathews. I'm a grad student in Information Systems at Brigham Young University working as a research assistant to several faculty members here. We are studying how and where social software can be used in education.

In the past eight months, I've built a number of classroom websites using Drupal. I've learned a considerable bit about Drupal in the process, became very involved in the community, and am writing a module (writing_assignment -- still a work in progress btw). I've loved most everything about Drupal but have found Drupal is missing an important component for building the perfect social learning website. This itches. So, in the best open-source fashion, I'm applying to Google Summer of Code to scratch my itch.

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