Drupal in education

“Drupal Future: The Future Won’t Wait”

For: Everyone attending #DCM2015

Mike Lamb, Director Marketing Technology Strategy at Pfizer and Drupal Association Board Member kicks off  with a keynote on:

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

Open Homeroom:

OpenHomeroom.net

I imagine that the following story is not unique to me. In response to a bunch of wining from fellow teachers about how complicated Drupal is, I started making some tutorials to show what could be done easily for a single classroom with Drupal without any coding or even extra modules, other than the core ( http://flossed.org/homeroom_homework_site_with_drupal6 ).

Just figured I'd drop a line here. The first theme to be published on drupal.org as a result of the ELMS project has been released. This will effectively replace all of our default course themes that we roll out. I figured I'd share as it was developed specifically for the educational sector of the drupal community.

http://drupal.org/project/chamfer

Hi

I work at a university and we're starting to look for products to have a sitewide CMS (single site or multi site still being debated). I work in admissions and I was wondering if anyone around here has any experience in using Drupal to manage Online Applications, messaging and other pertinent activities related to the Admissions Application process. It'd be nice to hear views of users w.r.t. this approach and any pointers to universities currently using this setup.

Hi, this is just a question seeking for suggestions. For classroom teaching receiving students' submission on an essay assignment, grading the essay with comments, and then returning the comments back to students is something very time consuming. I am thinking to ask students to post their essays as a (book page, story, blog...?) to course Drupal site, and I will use Adding Comment to write feedback so that there will be no email, download, attach, etc tasks.