Welcome to the Drupal in Education group. This group is an umbrella group for supporting and discussing the various uses of Drupal in educational settings.
List of education institutions using Drupal.
It's now easier to administer H5P libraries!
We've had some feedback from community members who want more control of what happens behind the scenes in H5P, and we've now launched the H5P library administration feature
In earlier versions of H5P, the ability to administer installed H5P libraries were limited. In the newly published H5P module, the H5P library administration has gotten a lot better. Here we give you an overview of what the H5P library administration is all about.
Read moreCommunity Summit @Amsterdam to create Education Kit
On friday 26th september we organise http://drupaltrainingday.nl a FREE Drupal Training Day especially for Students from Holland and Flanders.
We want to document our efforts and findings into an educational kit equivalent to drupalcampkit.org so more communities and localities can benefit and organise training at schools / job-fares.
Looking forward to meet up with trainers, educators and enthusiasts to exchange good practices and knowledge.
Read moreCyberCourse: distro for authoring courses
CyberCourse is a Drupal distro for authoring courses. It focuses on university skills courses, like programming, writing, and math. It makes flipped, blended, assessment-driven classes practical.
Build a course with many exercises. Students write programs, write emails, find math logic errors... No multiple choice quizzes. Students get individual formative feedback from humans. Practical at scale, at low cost.
Students can fix and resubmit their work until they get it right. Supports mastery learning.
Read moreDrupal in Ed Summit
The Drupal in Ed Summit provides attendees who work within K-12, Higher Education, Professional / Continuing Education and Drupal Training arenas an opportunity to exchange ideas and network among constituents. The program will consist of a mix of traditional presentations, panels and BOF style sessions.
Why Drupal in Ed?
Read moreDrupalcamp Atlanta - Back to School with Drupal
Drupalcamp Atlanta (DCATL), is one of the southeast’s largest annual Drupal conferences attracting over 300 web developers, designers, executives and educators who engaged with teaching and learning Drupal. This conference is comprised of multiple concurrent sessions with tracks ranging from Beginner, Design/Theming and Usability, Development and Performance, Site Building, Business Leadership, and Education. In addition there are impromptu birds of feather (BOF) sessions, code sprints all concluding with a networking reception.
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Read moreDrupal meetup
Looking to organize a meetup for drupal users.
This one will be held on the UW-Madison campus.
From 1:00 - 2:00 PM
Location to be determined shortly.
The focus on this meeting will be those that are new to drupal and want a hand with getting started or help with some beginner level help
Read moreCollege catalog in Drupal?
We are looking for a new online catalog solution, perhaps one that will not require an API to integrate with our D7 web site.
Has anyone created their catalog or bulletin in Drupal?
If so,
- How did it go?
- Can you provide a link to your catalog?
- Did you do it in-house or have outside help?
- Were there any modules that were a particular help?
- Any Drupal development companies you want to mention?
Thanks for any feedback or suggestions...
Read moreDrush Recipes format
I looked around for something to do this but couldn't find anything so I started working on a format that will allow for the structured packaging of a series of drush calls. These digestible calls can be chained together or reference each other to form a type of recipe much like chef does; just specific to drush.
Read moreGetting Drupal Curriculum into 2,000 high schools in 24 months
I have a goal to get a full semester long Drupal based website design curriculum into 2,000 high schools in the next 24 months. To do this I really need some help from others in the Drupal community.
We launched a KickStarter campaign that will allow us to build a full semester long, high school level website design/development course using Drupal. This will also allow us to offer the course and teacher training at no cost to the school. We only have about a week until it’s over and need some help.
Read moreDrupalCampPA: Bridging Higher Education & Industry!
Drupal Camp PA, a 2 day Drupal Camp in Western Pennsylvania, will be held on Saturday, August 2nd and Sunday, August 3rd at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences. The theme of the conference "Bridging Higher Education & Industry" demonstrates the understanding of the importance of open source solutions in higher education as well as industry. The 2 day Drupal developer conference will feature topical sessions, keynote speakers, "Birds of a Feather" breakouts, and code sprints.
The deadline to submit a session is July 1st.
Read moreDrupal Course -- Education Focus
Hi all,
I'd like to let you know about two live online courses I'll be teaching.
We've done a great deal of work with Universities and have many people who work in educational attend our courses. We also have a new course designed for people who already have a Drupal site and want to maintain and take it to the next level.
(Anyone in Education is entitled to the nonprofit/association discount. )
You can read about all classes here
http://new-media-solutions.com/drupal-training
Mastering Your Drupal Site
Read moreData Retention Policies
Does anyone have any policies they can share in regards to retention of data obtained in part from student activity through your website that goes towards generation of a grade?
Read moreDrupal in Education Summit
Do you work at a college, university, or k-12 school? We invite you to a pre-DrupalCon summit to discuss the needs and issues specific to using Drupal in educational environments.
June 2, 9am-4pm
The Texas Union, The University of Texas at Austin
We encourage participants of all skill levels from beginner through expert, in a variety of roles -- site builder, developer, themer, project manager, support specialist, etc. You do not need to be registered for DrupalCon Austin in order to attend the Education Summit.
Read moreHigher Ed Summit @ NYC Camp
I'm a little late in getting this out there, but felt like it still made sense to post NYC Camp will be hosting their annual Higher Education Summit on April 11th.
More details can be found at:
http://www.nyccamp.org/summit/higher-education-summit
Even if you are unable to attend I'd love to hear some feedback and ideas on what would make for a great summit, what struggles you are having and how we can leverage each others experience to continue growing Drupal in higher ed.
Read moreQuiz 7.x-5.x
ELMSLN packaged via Vagrant for easy spin up and try out
If you don't need to know how to setup vagrant and want to play:
https://github.com/btopro/elmsln-vagrant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeuDKzs6sj0&list=PLJQupiji7J5fygec37Wd-g...
This screencast is a series of 4 videos (for now, will be more in the future potentially) that show how to get ELMSLN up and running with Vagrant. This is the easiest way to setup this system as other methods require knowledge of bash scripting and a clean server to deploy against.
If you don't know what ELMSLN is check out http://elms.psu.edu/blog/post/elmsln-doodle-series
Read moreDrupalCamp Yorkshire
Drupal heroes, designers, developers, digital managers, and product owners get together for some amazing sessions focusing on Drupal8, Drupal Usability, and some talks specifically for people new to Drupal.
Please visit http://2014.drupalcampyorkshire.co.uk/ to pre-register.
Read moreNorways biggest e-learning site chooses H5P
www.ndla.no is Norway’s largest e-learning site for the secondary school level with 2,6 millions unique visitors in 2013. The website is publicly funded and has a large editorial staff for keeping the learning content up to date. NDLA requires most of its content to be openly licensed to encourage sharing and collaboration. NDLA now asks their vendors to deliver e-learning content as H5P, and uses H5P as their own authoring tool. They've already created over 1 000 H5P nodes.
Read moreRicher experiences with Drupal 7 and H5P!
The H5P module is finally available for Drupal 7! Now you can download H5P and H5P content types empowering you to create great rich experiences for your users to enjoy. Content like interactive videos, presentations, drag and drop, fill in the blanks questions and more are available from h5p.org.
We have received many enthusiastic requests for an H5P D7 module and we are proud to present the newly released version. You can find it available on the H5P project page.
Read moreFree Webinar: Drupal for Decision Makers (HigherEd Focus)
Singlebrook is hosting a free webinar on Thurs., 2/27 at 2pm, ET.
In this 60 minute seminar, Jeff Amaral will discuss what you need to know when investigating Drupal as a potential platform for your site.
*Finding support from the Drupal community and its developers
*Factors that will affect the cost of development and maintenance
*Why features are cheap but customization is expensive
*Choosing developers and a development style that aligns with your needs
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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