Just looking at OA again (last time was something like 4 years ago). Seems freaking amazing now. Thanks Mike Potter.
Curious who here has used Open Atrium for schools or school-related organizations (e.g. PGO). Seems perfect for that, where spaces hierarchy might be: school district > schools > departments > courses > teachers etc. Any examples? Any issues?
Sort of unrelated to is: are folks using OA successfully for issue tracking? Using the task sections or integrating another module? I am thinking whether to try to incorporate this module or not: https://www.drupal.org/project/support (which seems to have all the bells and whistles needed) and if so how best to set it up with OA.
Anyhow, anyone with thoughts, appreciated....
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Yes, Open Atrium is brilliant for schools
Hi Rick, I'm using Open Atrium for academic websites and agree that it can be the basis for very powerful development within schools, departments, etc. Phase 2 does a great job in maintaining and growing the distro, and the distro itself lends itself to really interesting development that would be hard to achieve starting from scratch. And pairing Open Atrium with Pantheon for EDU hosting just takes all this to another level. What it really needs however is a dedicated users group, as answering questions one by one can be overwhelming. What kind of sites are you interested in building with it?
Ed Carlevale
Drupal Developer, MIT Energy Club
Thanks Ed, Yes Pantheon is
Thanks Ed,
Yes Pantheon is probably what I would do. Perhaps a bit expensive with SSL, but better than worrying about keeping a Linode or DO droplet up to date.
I was thinking of starting a non-profit to provide free web space to schools or school-related organizations, like parent organizations, etc. Raise money for it from donations + maybe a crowdfunding effort.
I am not sure whether a straight-up website for schools is ideal, as there are tons of options for that out there, some which may include Moodle integration or whatever. So perhaps more of a separate collaboration and communication space. Not sure yet.
This started out of my frustration from my 6 years on the Amherst MA school committee with the lack of data collection on issues that parents, students and teachers are having. It's all anecdotal evidence which drives me nuts. So, I was mainly looking for an issue tracker, so that issues could be collected and dealt with in a way that would provide data about "is this a one-time issue, or are a lot of people having the same issue". So this module looked really good for that: https://www.drupal.org/project/support
But then somehow I decided to look at OA again and saw all the fantastic functionality it has that would be good for school-related orgs or schools. Not necessarily for issue tracking, as I am not sure if the Tasks functionality is good enough for that, not sure yet.
Anyhow, that's where I am at.
Thanks,
Rick
That sounds like a great site
That sounds like a great site and a great use case for Atrium. If you built that kind of site from scratch, the maintainability would just be a killer. And when you start working with Open Atrium, as a developer you'll see all the different ideas they they've brought to this development that I feel should become standard practice for Drupal. As for the Issue Tracker functionality, Open Atrium has a very vibrant APP ecosystem, and there's already a Wordbench and Task management feature in that ecosystem. So contributing back your own work with integrating the Support Ticketing System module would be a great way of contributing back.
Ed Carlevale
Drupal Developer, MIT Energy Club
check out course, quiz and h5p
You should also check out https://www.drupal.org/project/course
https://www.drupal.org/project/quiz
https://www.drupal.org/project/quiz_h5p
H5P is very cool: https://h5p.org/content-types-and-applications
You should check out the slides and presentation of 'course'.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pR2WOPI7Wm5PRne7TW2mKgQAwEiPs0M0...
http://dream.presentme.com/video2012/20120622DLCZuczek/
These provide a rich starting point for educational materials. Coupled with LDAP, which can hook into a school's current user base, it can integrate well with what is already being used.