K-12 Rollout, Phase 2

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Posted by cwolly on May 7, 2008 at 7:32pm

Greetings and Salutations,
I probably should have joined this group long before now. I developed and implemented a rather large Drupal install last year for our school district, of which i am the Manager of Technical Services. We deployed Drupal for all schools, the district site, and serveral specialized sites, such as one for our Technology Resource Teachers (urls below). I am now in the second year, and second phase of implementation. My plan is to now link all sites using Drupal/Moodle/OpenID/Google Apps API structure. This is fast becoming a state wide project, and it is possible I will be getting some grant money for it. I'm sure that some here will have questions about how I implemented the site structures. And I would be happy to answer any questions.

Currently being used: Drupal 5.7 on all production sites.
Some of our URLs:
www.mcpsweb.org
pvh.mcpsweb.org
www.mcpsweb.net (this is the technolgy department page, which has an entire private backend hosting our IT knowledgebase) neglected on the public side)
trt.mcpsweb.net
www.mcpsweb.net/moodle (our moodle site)

Currently under development: Drupal 6.2 being used on all development sites
mcpsweb.org (Identifcation server)
eschool.mcpsweb.org
This is going to be the launchpad for our online curriculum, and a good example of integration with google Apps. I have a presentation up on our workflow, and how it should all fall together. Feel free to take a look.

Current Obstacles:
Google Apps Module ported to 6.2
continued development of Open_id provider module (I've actually got this working and it is wonderful)

I do this development in my spare time, my full time job is actually the network manager, so as you can imagine I stay rather busy. I am hoping to develop somewhat of an SVN repository for a virtual appliance that will offer these configurations to anyone that would like them. Again, this is in the early early alpha stages, and I'm currently working on concept and documentation.

Any questions, comments, help is welcomed.

Also feel free to check out my podcast www.linuxbasement.com (we will be covering drupal 6 development in the upcoming season 3, and I post my tuturials there.)

Chad Wollenberg
chad@linuxbasement.com

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Google Apps integration

Posted by ChandeepKhosa on May 12, 2008 at 10:06pm
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Hi Chad,

I was talking about the possibility of integrating Google Apps with Drupal earlier today and explored what may be a good way of having a single sign in. The concept of maybe using an Open ID occured to me too. Is there any possibility that Google Apps may start to allow an Open ID to login, or use a Google Apps login on Drupal/Moodle services?

Thanks,

Chandeep

www.imagineCreativity.co.uk - Web Design, Development & Hosting | Photography | IT Support

Drupal and Google apps

Posted by bonobo on May 12, 2008 at 11:08pm
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There is some pre-existing work that could streamline SSO: http://drupal.org/project/googleauth

FunnyMonkey
Tools for Teachers

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Hi Chandeep, I'm actually

Posted by cwolly on May 12, 2008 at 11:32pm
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Hi Chandeep,
I'm actually attempting to do a combination of both OpenID and Google SSO authentication. I am currently working (and failing) at porting the Googleauth module referenced above, and I've got the openID provider module working for Drupal 6, http://drupal.org/project/openid_provider . Both Drupal and Moodle support OpenID, however, Google has no plans on supporting OpenID with their Apps products in the near future. I was told by google that they are "moving in a different direction."

Hope that helps,
Chad

Schools Site

Posted by schools on July 22, 2008 at 4:57am
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Hi,

I'm new to this and not sure if this is the right place to post, but have just developed a new site for my School at http://serv01.siteground170.com/~harrowsc/?q=node (still in development but almost there).

I have had developed a module based on volunteer time slots that allows schools to set up parents evenings signups. Parents can login, select the teacher they wish to see and choose the time the wish to book. You can see it in action at http://serv01.siteground170.com/~harrowsc/?q=node/183 (no need to register)

If anyone would like the module then please let me know and I can send it to you. As I am not the developer I don't want to post the module as a project as I cannot maintain it, but if anyone wants control of it then they are more than welcome.

Nice site!

Posted by bonobo on July 22, 2008 at 6:16am
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Very nice looking site!

I'm loving the use of the diaporama module on http://serv01.siteground170.com/~harrowsc/?q=node/197

RE the timeslot signup code, Please, send it along -- we'd be glad to take a look at it, and possibly maintain it. There has been a lot of interest in this functionality.

One of the things I noticed on http://serv01.siteground170.com/~harrowsc/?q=node/183 is that the sessions all run back to back -- Is there way to set up a break between sessions, so that session 1, for example, runs from 10:00 to 10:15; session 2 runs from 10:20 to 10:35; session 3 runs from 10:40 to 10:55, etc?

Also, when your site launches, please add it to the group resources page at http://groups.drupal.org/node/11258 , and, time permitting, a case study would be a great addition.

Cheers,

Bill

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Tools for Teachers

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What did you use for the

Posted by ebrittwebb on July 22, 2008 at 11:48am
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What did you use for the drop-down menus?

Erik Britt-Webb
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Simple Menu

Posted by schools on July 22, 2008 at 12:06pm
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The drop down is simple_menu with a few changes to the css. Simple_menu implements the superfish menu system and you can get css examples of how to implement it at the superfish site - most of them better looking than the default menu that simple_menu gives you.

Richard

Control the width of simple-menu

Posted by gmasky on July 26, 2008 at 7:47pm
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Hi Richard,

How do you control the width of simple menus. I am using the foliage theme that has the body 960px wide. It looks OK on a 1024x 768 screen. However on a wide screen simple menus spreads across the screen and is not restricted to 960px. I hv no problem moving the menu to where I want it. Here is what it looks
http://stanislites.org

Thanx

Width settings

Posted by schools on July 27, 2008 at 2:11am
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In the theme css, you should see something like;

position:relative;
background:none;
color:#fff;
font:11px Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
width:900px;

Richard

#1Width settings

Posted by gmasky on July 27, 2008 at 5:38am
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Thanks Richard,

Here is what my simplemenu original theme css looks like

simplemenu {

position:absolute;
top:144px;
background:#ddd;
color:#333;
border-bottom:1px solid #999;
font:11px Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
width:900px;
z-index:9999;
    text-align:left;

Looks OK on a 1024x768 screen but on a wide screen the simplemenu sticks to the left of the screen. Any idea how I can resolve this?

Thanx

Also interested in the timeslots code

Posted by David.Hamilton on July 22, 2008 at 2:28pm
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Hi,

Congrats on your site - it looks great! I'd also be interested in taking a look at the timeslots module you've developed if you're willing to share. On my tasklist this fall is office hour scheduling for faculty /student meetings, and I'm looking into a number of approaches - the more the better.

Download

Posted by schools on July 22, 2008 at 2:46pm
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No problem - the zip is available here - www.schools.ac/school_timeslots.zip

I'm sorry there is no documentation and I can only vouch for it working on 5.7, but you are more than welcome to give it a try!

Richard

It's been a while since this

Posted by amariotti on September 30, 2008 at 4:19pm
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It's been a while since this was discussed. Is this something that someone has been working on or maintaining? I installed it on my 5.10 site I am getting SQL syntax errors. Just wanted to see if this was something someone started to work on or not.

Andrew (amariotti)

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slideshow header

Posted by epingel on July 22, 2008 at 7:40pm
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What module did you use for the slide show in your header? I am using diaporama, but can't get the same results as you.

Flash header

Posted by schools on July 23, 2008 at 12:08am
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The flash header was written from scratch in flash and hard coded into the template.

Richard

Back to Back Sessions

Posted by schools on July 22, 2008 at 10:55am
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There is no provision for a break between timeslots - reason being our school doesn't give breaks between and this was written specifically for us. I'm sure with a bit of extra coding it could be added though.

Thanks for the kind comments regarding the site - I used a professional graphic designer and a coder to help me integrate everything. The whole process took two (hard working) weeks, which was a record for me and shows the ease of use of Drupal as this was also the first time I had ever used Drupal for any site.

Regarding the code - I have sent you a message with my email address.

Cheers,

Richard

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