Drupal in Education

I am having a look at Fronter e-learning platform which is quite popular in Europe. One thing immediately strikes me is how close the platform is to Drupal in basic functionality, yes they even use fck editor, Class rooms and other Learning rooms (OG) etc

One great piece of functionality I found; I could configure my IMAP or POP3 email address to work within the system. Similarly, I can add any number of RSS feeds within the system. The aim is obviously to have a learning platform (OS) which allows outside elements to work from within the system.

Hi everyone,
this post is meant for Bill of course, but anyone willing to answer is more then welcome. As part of a project for implementing a service to several secondary schools we tested Drupaled for a while. We are now in the process to prepare a version to be distributed as version 0 (the schools will work with similar navigation schemes, templates and compulsory contents managed individually). The pilot version is based on Drupaled 5.6. I was wondering about the upgrade to version 6. Will it be possible to upgrade the school sites later from 5.6 to 6? What steps are to be foreseen?

Several months have passed since the Dojo lost it's way a bit when some noble ninjas attempted to create a great deal of good for the Drupal project. In a group of 1500+ members, there is no way to achieve any sort of consensus to why it stalled, how it could succeed, or what the purpose was in the first place. There are, however, a lot of indicators that the concept/ideal of an open learning/mentoring group is solid and is worth reviving.

I've been trying to figure out a way to sync my college's class schedules with nodes in Drupal. We use Datatel and, on our current non-Drupal site, dump the data into a mySql database and use a simple form to search the classes. I'd like to set it up in our new forthcoming Drupal site, to have nodes created from the records in the mySql database.

Is there some module for importing databases => nodes?

Is there a way to sync the database to Drupal directly so when the db is updated, Drupal is updated?

Thanks,
Stephen Recker

Hi, I have ldap authentication working with this module (http://drupal.org/project/ldap_integration).

It's working fine, if the user does not exist in drupal, it is created automatically upon login.

I would like to find some way to mass-create drupal accounts for all users in ldap, though.

Is there a way to do this? Thanks.

On Sep 30, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM in room 141 Computer Bldg, UP, Bryan Ollendyke from the e-Learning Institute at PSU (see http://elearning.psu.edu/) will chat about e-Learning's use of Drupal for course development and implementation. If you are curious about what a center is doing in this area, please consider attending. Lunch is provided.

You can also attend via Adobe Connect at http://breeze.psu.edu/itpro. <-- you can sign up for a friends of penn state account on this page if you need one to connect from outside PSU

Just an FYI announcement. If anyone is using the og_forum(http://drupal.org/project/og_forum) module to automatically create forums to go along with user groups, and has been waiting for a D6 version, Paul Booker finally got a chance to port that this past week. I'm excited. It's still a "dev" release, but this new update looks very solid so far. Just thought I'd share.

I finished our year-long project of a brand new website using Drupal. My case study is here, here and here if anyone is interested (the last one being the complete version that was posted on Drupal.org).

And here's a link to the site: http://www.datc.edu

Feedback is welcome! (design, usability, content, etc.)

amariotti