Drupal in Education

Montreal's McGill University will be hosting the 2009 Montreal Drupal Camp taking place on the 17th and 18th of October. The Drupal community will converge for two days of workshops and presentations including education-specific sessions and round table discussions regarding the use of Drupal as both a Content Management System and a Learning Management System.

Additional information can be found at http://www.drupalcampmontreal.com

I have a client who has implemented employee training within Drupal and has had much success in showing who has accessed what pages... Now he has asked me to develop an automated testing process. I envision building a tool that will allow him to create tests for each class within a Course. Is there a recommended way using modules that will allow me to create an environment where he can create on-line tests per class? The student would take these tests online and he wants to give them immediate feedback on-line after it is submitted.

Thanks for your ideas!

Oi,

I wrote a short paper at:

http://coredogs.com/article/professors-sell-virtual-texts-ethical-problem

on the ethics of an instructor selling his/her own virtual text to his/her own students.

Please let me know what you think (or if you see any typos :-) ).

Kieran

(Reposting...last post was deleted)

For certain content on a site, I want to implement "security by obscurity" by having the posts show up only in restricted views and by making the URLs for those posts a set of random, unguessable characters (like Microsoft does with GUID).

So, I need guidance in two parts:

1. What module (presumably CCK-related) or trick will create a set of random, unguessable characters that I can then use as replacement token in pathauto?

On my home computer I have a simple little program that does something wonderful, and I would like to do the same thing on my drupal e-learning site.

The program is a typing tutor. The wonderful thing is that it keeps track of the student's progress. It starts with lesson 1 of course, but it gives you the option to start on any lesson. It also remembers which lesson the student last worked on, and even whether he finished that lesson or not. When the student logs on again, the system recognizes him and tells him where he left off, so that he can resume the course at that point.

UPDATE Network Manager has been released for 5 6 and 7.
I'm releasing a new module soon and wanted to get some feedback on a screencast that I did. It's a project called the Network Manager (http://drupal.org/project/network_manager) and it helps you manage / maintain your sites all from within one site (given permissions set correctly for mysql user).

Here are links to the screencast (Jing forces it to be in 5 minute segments) --
Part 1 - http://bit.ly/PGu8J
Part 2 - http://bit.ly/yR6Zy
Part 3 - http://bit.ly/BLWrU

The university I work for (approx. 12,000 students) is currently evaluating web CMS's to replace an older, cutom-built CMS in use across campus. Use of this new CMS would be supported and available for anyone at the university but not mandatory. I am a developer in the School of Medicine where in the past year we have rolled out over 20 drupal sites and have become enthusiastic drupal evangelists in the process. As a member of the campus-wide committee that is evaluating various CMS's, I would like to make a good case for adopting drupal as our new university-wide CMS.

I am the web development specialist for the Masters in Education: Teaching and Learning program at St. Mary's University of Minnesota. Currently our website is in perl and is a mess to maintain. With what the program would like to do with the website in the future, we are re-building the website using Drupal 6. I was going to scratch-code PHP for our specific needs, but Drupal offered so much more than I could hope to code myself.