Welcome
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
Top Universities for Solid Drupal hosting?
Do you know any universities that are doing a good job at hosting Drupal sites well, either in-house or with off-campus hosting/PaaS providers?
We are looking for examples of universities doing a great job at hosting numerous Drupal sites for campus units. Ideally, we want to find case studies of universities that provide support for units to easily deploy, launch and maintain Drupal and/or WordPress sites. It's fine if universities are doing this on-campus with their own staff or off-campus providers. We want to find top examples of each that are working best.
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College 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 moreManaging Content Access in Higher Education
Does anyone have any recommendations on content access/permissions implementation they can share?
I'm a (relatively new) Drupal developer at private university that's nearing the end of an almost-two-year transition from Coldfusion to Drupal 7. We have around 800 faculty/staff and almost 200 of them need (or want) access to edit specific pages or sections on the website.
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Drush 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.
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North Eastern Higher Ed Summit
We invite you to a Higher Education summit to discuss the needs and issues specific to using Drupal in educational environments.
All are welcome, whether you are currently using Drupal or looking to determine if Drupal would be a possible solution for your Higher Ed organization. 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.
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.
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Data 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?
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Trying to figure out how to contact admin for
Hello, I want to have a higher education site that was built in Drupal added to the list of higher ed drupal sites on this page: https://groups.drupal.org/higher-education
It says to email the site admin but I cannot find the info to email the admin to get the site added. I contacted the group organizer (jmerandy) but I have not heard anything from him. If anyone know how I can contact the admin to have the higher ed drupal site added it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Shawn R. (smr518)
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Drupal 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.
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