Drupal in Education

I work at a small college and historically the students are not given an email account but can use their personal email account for "school business" The problem is that students have email addresses like "sexybabe123@example.com"

Does your school give out a school email address for students to use?
What platform is used to manage students emails (exchange, etc)? Specifically, does anyone have experience with using google apps as their provider? Google apps seems like a great way to go but what the disadvantages?

Hi there

I'm looking for some advice on taxonomies and tagging.

I've got a main site taxonomy that users can add to and can select multiple terms.

This works well up to a point - I've been tagging stuff and have created blocks such as 'related events' which appear on pages that share the same taxonomy term.

Obviously there is a tipping point where you can end up with too many 'related items'. Events or news for example can be limited to those that are current.

I'm pleased to announce the third developer release of Eduglu. Download it at http://eduglu.com/download-eduglu

The big addition to this release is a new site-wide dashboard that is customizable by site admins. This will help learners see at a glance what's happening on the site. Future releases will bring group dashboards as well as the ability for users to customize the dashboard(s) to meet their needs.

Also, many bugs were squashed as we prepare for our first beta later this year.

I'm working on a drupal project for Individualized Educational Program (IEPs) that relies on our state learning standards. Our state is considering implementing the Common Core State Standards (http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/) and I need xml, csv, or other structured format besides the pdfs on http://www.corestandards.org to update our drupal module.

Thanks for any help on this.

Quiz 4 has now been released! Thanks to all of you who have contributed feature requests, bug reports, patches and more!

Quiz 4 has many use-cases, but we have focused on making Quiz a better e-learning tool. We have a new scoring system, a new multichoice module and a new mode "repeat until correct".

Some food for thought -- Home Box is an incredibly easy to configure Dashboard creation module. I'm only posting here because I think this could be a great landing page for Drupal as an LMS. Anything that's a block can show up in a homebox display and it seems very flexible / stable from my early usage of it. You can also make multiple dashboards (different one for students vs. instructors vs. admin staff).

I am working bringing and old drupal site up to date and replacing the current course database from something made in Visual Basic to something in Drupal.

I have created a content type with a bunch of CCK and taxonomy to categorise the course but I am having some troubles and I am hoping I can get some feedback on best practices to creating an online course database. Some of the problems I am having:

1. The same class can be offered by distance, intensive (1 week long) or standard semester. Do I create three different nodes, one for each time the class is offered?

Hopefully someone hasn't already started on this and I missed it, but I was in a conversation recently about a CommentPress-style commenting module for Drupal. Searching Drupal.org only came up with this: http://drupal.org/node/196316 .

Anyone else interested in this?

I've started work on a module called Open Review to do this. Partially working demo is up in my blog, and code is in github.

I run an intensive IT program for university business students (in accounting, marketing. management, etc.). The program has special IT courses, plus project work for companies.

I plan to move the program towards Drupal (currently pure MS tech). I'm looking for suggestions. There's a longer post at http://drupal.org/node/812754.

Kieran