Drupal in Education

I am looking of a way to increase stickness to my Drupal powered business index.
Light games seem like an interesting option.

Some ideas:
1. Random picture => identify the business.
2. Weekly Polls with Prizes.
3. Crossword / Puzzle module (e.g. like here).
4. Complete tasks to earn points.

Which modules do you recommend?
And do you have other game ideas which encourage stickness?

Thanks in advance,

Amnon

Can we convert Drupal in public education ... discussion thread to wiki pages of case studies?  I love the conversation, but find it a little hard to have to scroll top to bottom to see who has posted what.  Would it be useful if we create a master wiki page for linking to all case studies and then create a wiki page for each case study?  That way it would be easy to read through all of them.

Greetings!

By day I'm the Webmaster at a mid to large size public school system here in the USA (Frederick County Public Schools, MD). I'm curious to know how many of you out there in Drupal-land are implementing Drupal sites in the public education sector. Some specific questions:

1) Do you support it (server-wise) in house or do you host outside/off campus?

2) Do you host on VPS/dedicated or shared? Linux or Windows?

3) Do you run multi-site configurations?

4) How long have you been running Drupal sites?

Glad to see the shift in group focus from DrupalEd distribution to Drupal in Education (including DrupalEd Distro). I think this will help strengthen dialogue among those of us in the education field.

Should/can we also change the group URL? Or does that create linking problems?

Now, I don't mean for this to sound like a plug for a product (cause it's not), I've been developing Drupal modules to help support the development of our e-learning courses at Penn State for the last year now. As things have progressed, our department has begun to pursue making these modules open source. I've been sitting on this stuff for a year now patiently waiting for the right time to start announcing the projects we've been working on and I think many (if not all of them) would be of interest to DrupalEd users.

We recently created a community learning space for a web analytics class at BYU. We directed students to create individual blogs on commercial blogging platforms such as blogspot, wordpress, and elsewhere. We are then using FeedAPI to aggregate the student blogs and comments (see list of student feeds) into the community site.

I just submitted a proposal for a Drupal in Education Birds of a Feather session.

If you are attending the DrupalCon, come on over and read through the proposals, rate the existing proposals, and/or write one of your own.

If you would like to attend the BoF, I have started a list of possible topics to cover in the session description. As I say in the description, given Drupal's flexibility and the differing needs of people working within education, there will be plenty to talk about.

Does exist a sort-of Quiz module that shows the student the correct results after he submitted the multiple choice answers (a yes/no, or maybe a choose a,b,c... styles), and automatically adds this answer in his profile?

Moodle has this, but it puts the result inside a personal gradebook, that the student can read from his control panel (what is sort-of a profile).

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and ideas!

Rosamunda

Earlier today, Drupal core was upgraded to version 5.6. This is a security release, and all users should upgrade.

For users with existing DrupalEd installs, you only need to upgrade core Drupal -- you do not need to use this specific package.

For new users to DrupalEd, this is the package for you.

Download it here to get started!