Posted by kolafson on November 19, 2012 at 3:01pm
Our Drupal team has recently been tasked with building a Student Portal for the campus. It will need to pull data from enterprise systems such as PeopleSoft (student data) and Desire2Learn (LMS), as well as other Drupal sites (news and events). I was wondering if anyone in this group has built, or is currently building, a student portal in Drupal? If so, I'd love to hear about your experience.
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CSU-MB is best of breed for what you're looking for
Lucky for you there is a homerun example already in production, with community-minded people behind it:
http://it.csumb.edu/drupal-csumb
Make friends with kevee and Greg Pool and you're golden.
Re: CSU-MB is best of breed...
Thanks, Zach!
Our lead developer, Kevin Miller, gave a presentation last DrupalCon Denver on using Open Atrium as a student portal here at Cal State Monterey Bay.
http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/open-atrium-dot-edu-open-a...
"Open Atrium is an excellent install profile for small teams and project management – but with a few tweaks, it can be retrained as a powerful and beautiful intranet for universities and other large organizations. Cal State Monterey Bay has successfully put all 6000 daily users and tens of thousands of applicants in a single Open Atrium site, and used a combination of features overrides, custom spaces, and Open Atrium's own APIs to make it our own."
Let us know if you need some help or direction.
/Greg Pool
Wow, great!
Thank you for the information, I'll review the presentation before asking any specific questions.