education

The university I work for (approx. 12,000 students) is currently evaluating web CMS's to replace an older, cutom-built CMS in use across campus. Use of this new CMS would be supported and available for anyone at the university but not mandatory. I am a developer in the School of Medicine where in the past year we have rolled out over 20 drupal sites and have become enthusiastic drupal evangelists in the process. As a member of the campus-wide committee that is evaluating various CMS's, I would like to make a good case for adopting drupal as our new university-wide CMS.

What is the best way to record the amount of time a student has spent on a page in Drupal? I looked at some timer mods, but have not found anything that really does what I want. Should I be trying to make a view that displays student activity? Is the logging accessible from views? Is there something super easy that I'm not seeing?

Ideally I'd like to be able to insert "time spent" into the existing Track view for each page. I'm guessing that isn't an easy thing to do, but just in case it's possible, I thought I'd mention it.

Thanks in advance,

Becky

Hello, all,

There are three education-related sessions currently proposed for DrupalCon Paris -- if these are sessions you would like to attend, head on over to the site and vote on them. The rating/voting period is currently set to close on July 12 (which seems short to me, given that the proposal deadline was the 8th, but that's a different story).

The sessions are:

Drupal For Education

I'm been working on sanduhrs code (http://groups.drupal.org/node/13452) for Drupal 6.

It's far from complete, but is a second step. CMI Datamodel is implemented and we have a conformant RTE. I'm missing the API/Session communication in order to get Claude's test script fully successful.

Anyone interested on this? I'm going to be working on this for the next weeks and we could get something faster if we join forces!

Regards,
www.sofi.com.br

I'd like to see Pittsburgh become known for having Drupal courses in higher education, and this excellent article may help convince educators of the value of Drupal: The Future of Drupal In Professional Open Source.

I've been talking to a few University / College types lately and been asking them one thing -- If a group existed that was dedicated towards Drupal for Universities, would you be interested? Thus far the few that we've pitched this idea to have been very receptive. I posted recently about this idea of a Drupal for Universities Consortium to try and get some feedback / discussion from the rest of the community.

Hello everyone,

I am the co-founder of the Mediabird Study Notes software, which is an extension to existing LMS.

Mediabird is a collaborative online notepad that allows small study groups to collaboratively work on shared notes at any time. It is not only possible to extend notes or edit them at the same time but in particular Mediabird allows users to annotate notes and ask questions about them. With that respect, Mediabird combines the ideas of a wiki and of a forum but is not as public as a wiki and relates questions to the notes rather than separating them as done in a forum.

I migrated our school curriculum map from a custom system I authored into Drupal. This allows us to ensure the longevity of this web site resource, take advantage of Drupal's strengths in structuring content storage and display, and provide teachers with a very usable editing interface. The curriculum map stores over a thousands nodes and can be added to an existing Drupal site. This article assumes familiarity with Drupal 6 views, content construction kit, blocks, and very basic custom function programming. This isn't a step-by-step tutorial (maybe one day).

I previously was working on an ecommerce site which had much potential for growth. 15 hours into getting the right modules, doing some work in taxonomy and focusing on the functionality of the site...the project got pulled from my docket. So now, I have no idea what kind of thing I can do to continue enriching my Drupal skills. Sadly, I learn best by doing.

Any chance that I might find someone here looking for someone willing to work for low pay or pro-bono, since it is the experience I seek most. If that is not what this group is for, than I apologize.

Skills I possess:

Just moved our school districts site over to our new drupal based site. There are a total of 8 school sites and our district site.

http://www.sdmaonline.com

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