Everyone interested in using drupal to power learning management systems (LMS) is welcome to participate. Particularly if you or your company has already built a LMS in drupal or some piece of functionality that could be used for course management or something like that.
This group is an outgrowth of one of the BOF's at drupalcon SF.
Drupal distribution (EduERP) for Educational Institutions is Released!
EduERP is student and staff adminstration software for educational institutions. It is available for download and immediate use.
The student information system can do admissions, clearance, course registration, grading, exams processing and transcripts. With plugins for creating and synchronizing user accounts on e-mail servers, payment administration, HR management and a flexible reporting system, most schools can automate student and staff management with EduERP.
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Script-generated questions and tools for creating course schedules
I thought I should post a few lines about two project I've been working with recently:
Mechanical Tutor
This module/project allows questions that are generated and evaluated by scripts. In the simplest form it could be "What is A + B?", and varying the parameters A and B, but questions could of course be much more complex (and don't have to be math questions).
Read moreState of Drupal in education update
Just a quick community note about some momentum in projects that often times directly benefit the drupal edtech community.
LTI is moving along in the community it seems -- http://drupal.org/sandbox/jzornig/1809350
Epub would be an excellent format to support exports to which funnymonkey has some work into that I need to test -- http://drupal.org/project/epub_export
Read moreLTI Tool Provider module released
The LTI Tool Provider module (lti_tool_provider) http://drupal.org/sandbox/jzornig/1809350 allows a Drupal site to serve as a Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) Tool in any Learning Management System (LMS) supporting the LTI standard. (http://developers.imsglobal.org/)
Example LTI compliant LMSs are Blackboard Learn, Moodle and Sakai.
Are you an educator teaching Drupal at college level? Do you know an educator who'd like to teach Drupal?
I'm trying to reach educators who are teaching Drupal as subject matter at college level.
Cross-posting in a few places where it may not be directly related, but we too often focus on Drupal as an LMS, etc without attracting educators who could teach Drupal.
Read moreExam module released on drupal.org
We have created a module for holding exams using Drupal, Quiz and Organic Groups:
http://drupal.org/project/exam
From the project page:
Enables you to use your Drupal site to hold exams. Integrates with the Organic Groups module so that all group members will be put into exam mode when the time for exam arrives. In exam mode the users can only access a predefined set of pages in a predefined order, and all blocks are hidden except those you want to be visible in exam mode. Exam pages are only visible when taking exams.
Any feedback will be appreciated.
Read moreELMS Beta and more!
Just wanted to leave a note about ELMS since I haven't jumped on here in awhile.
ELMS is now beta and fully packaged on drupal.org
ELMS Media (asset management solution we use to power our ELMS) has also been released
DrupalCon Munich proposals for training/learning/education
Proposals close on May 11th. Please [edit] to add your proposal title, name and link if you post one about training/learning/education.
This year, there's no voting, which is really a GOOD thing! However, it would be great to built some discussion about the proposals to help the selection process. Here are sessions related to training, education or learning in the list of proposed sessions. Please leave a comment on them if you feel moved or have any questions to get clarification.
Training Your Clients with Easy to Create Video Tutorials - Rod Martin
Read moreNeed some drupal testimonials in the Lms space
hi, I was at the drupalcon Lms bof. We are building our Lms in drupal, but my company wants to be sure we made the right choice. Tell me your stories about Drupal as an LMS ( esp K-12 ). How many students do you have using your site? How many concurrently? How does it scale? How did you implement flash for classroom activities and how are you implementing tests / content in Drupal? Is it scalable ( I know the answer to this....but they require proof ).
Do you have any suggested resources or reading we could do on this topic?
Blackboard acquires Moodlerooms and NetSpot
Blackboard Inc. announced a major investment in open source today with news that it has acquired Moodlerooms and NetSpot, two leading providers of open source online learning solutions to the education industry. Both organizations will continue to operate independently to support their clients.
Moodlerooms and NetSpot are official Moodle Partners, and each will continue their current programs to support clients with no changes to their leadership or their support and service models.
http://www.moodlerooms.com/news/news__node/127/
Read moreDrupal as LMS Initiative GSOC2012
Drupalcon was a great leep forward for education. Drupal is taking off in k-12, university and private sector training usage for the delivery of educational materials. A mixed group of people passionate about education and training got together for a learning management system (LMS) BoF at Drupalcon. You can read some of the conclusions of that group here http://groups.drupal.org/node/219814
Read moreDrupal as an LMS Intiative
At Drupalcon, a discussion came about regarding the use of Drupal as a Learning Management System. It is clear that while there is a large interest, there are also a lot of features that are still missing. This is causing a scenario in which institutes are maintaining multiple platforms for specific features that are present mostly in legacy platforms. This is causing for expensive integrations with multiple systems, hosting and support for multiple systems, and general lack of sleep – especially during a time that Universities are adopting Drupal as their Content Management platform.
The question that was asked was “What are the features that are not available for Drupal, that are stopping you from adopting Drupal?”
Read moreDrupal in Education Unconference - Event Information
On Monday, March 19th, we are organizing a Drupal in Education unconference in Denver; the event will be held at Del Pueblo School. This meetup will follow an unconference format, so if there is something you want to talk about, propose a topic, find some like-minded individuals, and let the conversation start.
Read moreNew version of elms out
http://drupal.org/project/elms -- Try it out now! The abstraction of ELMS is nearly complete. If you care about ELMS implications for application development, check out drupal.psu.edu and read through my posts about abstraction (or http://btopro.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/what-im-really-excited-about/ or http://elearning.psu.edu/elearning/elms-drupal-drupal-elms )
Just some highlights:
--improved installer
--major focus on ensuring accessibility is met
--style guide that accompanies 15 newly released themes
--22 features, many of which are kit compliant
Draft schedule/program
This relates to the unconference that is being planned as a result of http://groups.drupal.org/node/191733
Event to be held on Monday, March 19th, 2011
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DrupalCon Denver: Education Unconference
Update
The registration for this event is now open!
- Info/Announcement: http://groups.drupal.org/node/211118
- Register: https://denverdrupaled.eventbrite.com
- Propose a discussion topic: http://groups.drupal.org/node/211108
End update
Hello, all,
With DrupalCon Denver coming up in approximately 4 months, I wanted to see if there was interest in an Education-specific unconference on Monday, the 19th, the day before DrupalCon begins.
Read moreLearner/Course Progress with Reporting
Hey all, I'm new to the group but returning to Drupal after some years!
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction for a requirement we have at a large training organisation. I'm looking to use Drupal as a tool to track learner details and progress on courses. Here's the high level requirements:
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Roles:
- Administrator
- Assessor
- Learners
Content Types:
- Courses
--- Modules (courses are made up of multiple modules)
--- Learners (are added/associated with multiple courses)
Process:
Read moreNew Version of ELMS released
ELMS Alpha 5 came out today! https://drupal.psu.edu/project/elms
ELMS is now entirely features based and following the best practices established by Open Atrium / Eduglu / Drupal Commons. You can download the distro at the link above or check out any of the 24 other modules/features contributed as part of this release at https://drupal.psu.edu/fserver
Read moreSelect fields from the different table in drupal
i am new bee in drupal development
i have the list of departmenets with the code number adn it address as following
001- purchase 002- transport 003- catering
etc...
as like that in each field fileds like address, contact no etc
now need one in which the select list of department shows the select list of 001,002,003 etc
but when i select the list 002- the details would be typed like address, contact etc into particular segments in that node...
Read moreBenchmarking Higher Ed Sites ...
I recently revisited an old pet project of mine looking at benchmarking and comparing higher education sites. It is obviously a work in progress, but it is shaping up fairly well at this stage and I'm getting to a point where I'd like to secure some feedback. If 'ya get a chance, please take a look and let me know what you think. It's based on D7, represents around 3,200 US higher ed sites, and has a range of data to sift through.
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