Drupal in Education

Hello -- anyone going to Drupalcon2010 SF?

Would you like to get together and discuss education projects?
Anyone working on an I3 grant proposal using Drupal?

Let's find a time and location to meet. Any suggestions?

Rose

http://drupal.org/project/sticky_notes

Just found this and have been playing around with it. Still very early on in my assessment of it and it just came out the other day but looks VERY promising for all levels of education. Check out the demo and I'm sure you'll be able to see the possibilities. Basically it lets you create a sticky note or view your own sticky notes. It also has a lot of permission settings so that people can set things to public or private stickies as well as who can view / post notes.

Just figured I'd drop a line here. The first theme to be published on drupal.org as a result of the ELMS project has been released. This will effectively replace all of our default course themes that we roll out. I figured I'd share as it was developed specifically for the educational sector of the drupal community.

http://drupal.org/project/chamfer

Hi

I work at a university and we're starting to look for products to have a sitewide CMS (single site or multi site still being debated). I work in admissions and I was wondering if anyone around here has any experience in using Drupal to manage Online Applications, messaging and other pertinent activities related to the Admissions Application process. It'd be nice to hear views of users w.r.t. this approach and any pointers to universities currently using this setup.

I've been trying to come up with a suitable solution for inline images for a while now without a ton of success. I'm sure you have had a client who wants to be able to insert images inside the main area of their text. Generally, I try to steer clients in the direction of using CCK fields for content images, but given the fixed nature of this approach, it doesn't work well for longish' tutorials with screen shots. Writers that use Drupal will often times want to use wysiwyg to get their uploaded images into the content above or near the focus of the topic.

Hi there

For various nodes on my site I might need a 'University' field, so for example I can assign a contact node to a certain university.

That's easy enough by creating a new field. But once that value is chosen, in the context of a contacts node I'd want to offer the user a list of departments associated with that University to select from.

How do I do that in Drupal?

Am I better off creating a university node and having that referenced?

Apols - I think this is another query re Drupal basics.

I'm grappling with a discussion about the costs of supporting drupal vs. proprietary solutions. Some say that there are steep hidden costs in supporting Drupal, and that a proprietary solution is cheaper overall because it comes with that guarantee of up time, and packaged support.

Hey all,

Great group new to drupal. I am doing my first drupal site for our K-12 district and will be converting over 12 sites from Word HTML (I know, it was before me) to Drupal. Nothing like taking on a small project for the first one. Our district site is up and now I am working on our 7 elementary buildings. I would like the primary nav bar to be the primary nav for all of the sites, but dont necessarily want to maintain 12 menus. Is there anyway to do this with Drupal multisites other than use full path on the subsequent sites.

I'm thinking of doing a simple module that would take a Drupal Book and output a SCORM package (.zip) with the necessary components.

My questions are:
* would there be interest for such a module?
* what SCORM standard (pick one) would be the "best" (least worst?) one to use? (Pointers are welcome, I'm kind of a newb regarding all the available standards).
* do you have any features you'd like this to have?