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Connecting folks working with issues and challenges that are unique to Drupal in post-secondary academic environments.
History
This group has been founded as a result of DrupalCon San Francisco 2010, when it became obvious that there was a need for a place to extend the fruitful higher education-focused discussions that began there.
Join us on Slack
Do you work in Higher Education (Higher-Ed) and want to connect to your peers? We run a Slack group - EduDU. To join EduDU, please send a direct message to Webbeh from the Group Organizers sidebar.
Recent Discussions
Free websites built by University of Michigan grad students
We are seeking clients for a class at the University of Michigan School of Information. Students in this class break into teams to build websites.
We have about 30 students in the class this winter, so we need 10 sites to create.
That’s where you come in.
Do you know anyone that needs a site (re)built that would be a good candidate for our students?
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Centralized and Shared ECommerce Platform
This is slightly off-topic, since it's not specific to Drupal.
I'm curious if anyone has implemented a centralized e-commerce platform for use through your institutions’ various sites. The cost of re-rolling out unique site-specific implementations that meet compliance requirements is considerable.
The thought of creating links to an centralized (and controlled by Finance) seems like a winner, all around.
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New module to show which keywords were used in Exposed filters
We have submitted for review module that allows to display Field name and Values of exposed filters that user selected for the view. This widget can be displayed in Header/Footer area. User can configure which filters should be shown.
You can download module here
https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/irinaz/2279929
https://www.drupal.org/project/2279929/git-instructions
Cornell University DrupalCamp + more!
Registration is now open for Cornell DrupalCamp 2016, to be held Friday October 7. An optional half-day Code Sprint or half-day Drupal Basics, will be held October 6.
Sessions are now posted! http://camp2016.drupal.cornell.edu/2016-schedule
Cornell DrupalCamp has been held on the Ithaca, NY campus since 2013 and is open to the public. The daylong camp costs $35 and includes breakfast and lunch. Session topics and tracks will be posted in September.
Read moreCornell University DrupalCamp + more!
Registration is now open for Cornell DrupalCamp 2016, to be held Friday October 7. An optional half-day Code Sprint or half-day Drupal Basics, will be held October 6.
Cornell DrupalCamp has been held on the Ithaca, NY campus since 2013 and is open to the public. The daylong camp costs $35 and includes breakfast and lunch. Session topics and tracks will be posted in September.
Registration is open to the first 225 participants, including presenters who plan to attend the camp, so please do not wait until the last minute to register!
Read moreD6 Publishing/Caching Issue & D8 Calendar Recommendations
I'm at the University of Southern Mississippi. I'm hoping for some feedback from the higher ed community on the following:
1) Caching. We were self-hosted until December 2015 and didn't employ caching. After moving to Acquia Cloud Enterprise, we have experienced a number of issues related to the balance of caching through Varnish and user expectations on how quickly content will be available to anonymous users.
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Exercises for skills courses
Quiz is a good module for many situations, but it's not as useful for skills courses as it might be. As far as feedback is concerned, learning research suggests that students need:
- Hands-on exercises, e.g., write programs
- Formative feedback, that is, a list of what is right and wrong with a submission
- Opportunities to resubmit until the exercise is complete
Senior Drupal Drupal Developer / Team Lead @ Georgetown University
Hey guys,
The team of amazing developers at Georgetown University are expanding and looking for a Senior Drupal Developer to improve existing D7 and build new D8 projects. Someone with Drupal 8 / Symfony as well as Continuous Integrations skills are welcomed!
Both salary and benefits are great!
https://jobs.drupal.org/georgetown-university/job/12619
Thanks!
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Drupal Camp PA 2016
Come join Drupal friends for the 3rd Annual Drupal Camp PA as they plot to take over the Internet! Set on the University of Pittsburgh's campus, you can participate in sessions, workshops, and spontaneously flocking BoFs. This camp is focused on "Bridging Higher Education & Industry."
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XAPI formula to turn any drupal site into an LMS
Just wanted to point to a pretty killer combo right now that's emerged and works really well that would let you basically turn any drupal (7) site into an LMS.
https://www.drupal.org/project/tincanapi -- works really well, has some built in tracking stuff and plugs into...
drupal.org/project/quiz -- So you can capture the state of things in an LRS; Quiz 5.x beta is awesome btw
and also..
https://www.drupal.org/project/h5p_tincan_bridge + https://www.drupal.org/project/h5p so you can get XAPI statements emitted from H5P files to flow via Drupal to an LRS.
