This is a group to organize and discuss the development of Drupal learning experience for helping people master Drupal.
See an inventory of all education related groups: http://groups.drupal.org/node/172069
Please post here:
- Discussion about Drupal training programs and training opportunities
- Links or information about courseware & learning materials for training (tag as "materials")
- Post Training events - News about upcoming and past training events or if you offer Drupal training services (tag as "training" or "training, events" or "training, services")
- Discussions related to an open curriculum (tag as "open curriculum")
- Review the current Open Curriculum proposal:
Open Curriculum: Definitions – Scenarios – Roadmap – Skill sets – Open certification – References - Roles
Join the discussions here on g.d.o, on IRC at #drupal-skillmap, or on Twitter with the tag #drupalskillmap!
If you're interested in setting up local learning sessions - please visit the Drupal Dojo too.
Tips, Tricks, Best Practices, Success Stories, Horror Stories
This page's target is to store all of the info that can't really be described in a sylibus but is crucial for every training shop to know.
What works and what doesn't, The types of projects or practicing material used, tips for addressing complex issues and how to build it up in the correct order...
I'll start this as an alphabetical list and as this broadns we can link out to seperate pages.
Course Time Frame:
We (in linnovate) started with 12 hour courses over two days 8hrs + 4hrs, Once we understood it was not enough we extended it to 16hrs over two days.
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Some ideas for the group
This group is wonderful and now that I've started to do some training myself I'd like to propose a few quick changes to the group pages.
1) The WIKI pages for course syllabuses are awesome, Can we branch these out to a new Page via the new panels functionality on G.D.O?
2) My classes as of late have focused on creating a site and a module over a period of time. Either in the section above or in a new section I'd like to upload a few "training" modules that are essentially the answers to a set of exercises that should be performed within a class.
thoughts, opinions?
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Imagecache + Imagefield Screencast
The blog post on Drupaltherapy
Hosted on Blip
This screencast demonstrates the recipe for Imagecache and Imagefield (for CCK) to build a system for posting images on your Drupal website. This is a robust and flexible system for handling images and has a bright future with more helper modules born every day.
This micro-lesson depends on prior understanding of the CCK module and the Views module. This example uses Drupal 5 since the Image* modules for Drupal 6 are not available (yet).
Read moreDrupal theme development
Storing some relevant resources as we outline the sylibous for this.
A nice start from raincity
Drupal Fundamentals Class - Santa Barbara California
This two day course is designed for new and intermediate users of Drupal. Overview and best practices for installation and configuration of Drupal core, contributed modules, and themes. Includes user permissions and roles, site configuration, site information and maintenance, input formats, and post settings. Content types, taxonomy, panels, media, and views will be discussed in detail.
Two Break Out Sessions: "Practice Installations and Problem Solving" and "Design and Implement a Theme"
Drupal modules development
This training is intended for developers who have already a solid knowledge of Drupal, from a user's perspective. Prior knowledge of HTML, javascript or CSS are a plus.
The goal of this training
Learn how to expand Drupal to your needs, and how to use the community power for that purpose.
Duration
At least 2 days
Logic
In order to expand Drupal, one has to know how it already works, and what are his options, when choosing how to expand.
The class begins with an introduction to the structure of Drupal and how it is very similar to an operating system. Drupal system of loadable/pluggable modules allows it be to infinitely extensible. Drupal's core set of module is explored first and compared against contributed modules especially highlighting the importance of "core".
Before any development begins there is an overview of the folder and file structure of a module so that all the key pieces of modules are known as well as having a visualization of what is going to be created.
The Tools and Rules is located in the beginning of the syllabus but it can be moved to a later section in the course. It is important to cover this in class.
After the structure of Drupal has been explained, an outline of a Drupal module, and, possibly, coding standards/secure-code the class dives straight into development. Development begins slowly by exploring the hook system, steps up to creating custom DB tables, and finally moves into the Forms API (FAPI).
The syllabus
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Basic Drupal Training in Minneapolis
Advantage Labs is presenting a class in Minneapolis: Drupal Basic Training: Build a Drupal Website. This class is ideal for seasoned web professionals just getting into Drupal and community managers with existing or upcoming sites.
Over the course of 4 weekly sessions and 4 additional labtimes, you will know how to create a content-managed Drupal site complete with functionality that will draw users in, keep them informed, and keep them coming back!
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Drupal training syllabus
Open source has proven to produce high quality in various fields. Loyal to the principals of open source, I am sharing Linnovate's Drupal training curriculum, in order to share it with other Drupal shops who consider train people to Drupal, and of course - get some feedback, and improve the program.
The idea is not to create a unified training syllabus, but rather propose a structure of such a course. Drupal training centers may then modify the training program, to fit their needs.
We might want to publish the syllabus under GPL, and make it officially open source :-)
At Linnovate, we develop 3 training programs:
- Drupal administration - get to know all you need in order to install and administer a Drupal website, without writing code.
- Drupal Theming - From PSD to a Drupal Theme (draft)
- Drupal Development - Learn how to write modules and expand Drupal (Updated draft)
Drupal administration training syllabus
This training is intended for anyone who wishes to know how to run a Drupal website. It does not require any prior knowledge of Drupal, nor HTML or anything at all.
The goal of this training: come clueless, and leave with all you need in order to install and configure a Drupal website.
Duration: approx. ~16 Hours, best when divided to more than two days.
The syllabus
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What impact Acquia new Training and Certification project will have on Drupal community ?
Building Drupal Modules
This session will introduce Drupal users to the beauty that is creating custom modules. We will start out by doing an overview of what a module is, what it is composed of, and how modules interact with the Drupal core. The lesson quickly turns from lecture to hands-on when the basics are over and students code their modules and learn all about Drupal's hooks and API offerings.
This session will go over how to build and architecture a new custom Drupal module.
Who is this course for?
Read moreDrupaltherapy: Seattle WA, Feb 24
Sneaking upon you again is another Drupal therapy workshop, this time in Seattle, WA, on Feb 24, 2008. This all-day intensive training opportunity for new and novice Drupal admins and end users will provide quality Drupal foundations in a price bracket that non-profits and small businesses can afford. San Francisco and DC have been a great success, we're on our way to the Pacific Northwest next! Take a look at the website for more information.
Washington DC Drupal Therapy
Happy to announce our next Drupal Therapy workshop, this time in the Washington DC area on Nov 4, right off the Metro system in Fairfax, VA. This is an all-day intensive training opportunity for new and novice Drupal admins and end users, aimed at providing quality Drupal knowledge foundations in a price bracket that non-profits and small businesses can afford. Take a look at the website for more information.
Drupal Admin Bootcamp: Cambridge, MA
The good folks over at Cambridge Community Television in Cambridge, MA, will offer their now-famous Drupal Admin Bootcamp training again on October 14, 2007, 9AM to 6PM. This is a training for new Drupal users and admins, and experienced Drupal hacks, to get formal exposure and training in the installation, configuration, core and contributed functions, themes and a whole lot of technique - all in a single marathon day of training.
http://www.cctvcambridge.org/bootcamp
Read moreDrupaltherapy: San Francisco, July 21
We are pleased to annouce that the next Drupal therapy session will take place in San Francisco on July 21, 2007, from 10AM-6PM at the Bay Area Video Coalition. This training will be specialized for Drupal users and administrators who are new to the Drupal project or seeking formal learning experiences. You can read up on the curriculum and instructor to get a sense of the class content and style by checking the Drupaltherapy site. Register early!
Read moreDrupal Admin Bootcamp: Minneapolis, MN
CCTV has opened enrollment for a July 25, 2007, Drupal Admin Bootcamp to be held as a preconference workshop at the Alliance for Community Media International Conference. This class will be lead by Sean Effel of CCTV and Minneapolis area Advantage Labs, Inc. You will have to register for this course through the ACM conference website.
Read moreOpened new Training group
Hello there. I opened up another group for Training which I hope will be a better place to discuss training opportunities and connect students to training sessions and more. If this is redundant, then please share your thoughts. Thanks!
Sean Effel
http://www.drupaltherapy.com
End user training / open licensed curriculum
I've developed a Drupal User Guide training / documentation for site users who want to tweak things, but don’t need to code - i.e. "end users." While I could respond to the previous post, I wanted to highlight this independently. This document is licensed for anyone to modify, use (and get paid using) - and I've love to it to return to the source, so to speak, so I can hash out another version with a longer list of contributors and better content. :-)
Mor details, and downloadable files, here.
Read moreGuidelines and ideas for lessons, presentations, workshops, and projects
Last updated by gusaus on Wed, 2008-11-05 23:18
This working document is an attempt to identify and compile potential topics for lessons, sessions, tasks, projects and collaborative workshops. Anything that would be considered a contribution to Drupal and adheres to the projects mission statement and principles should be considered appropriate.
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What training material do you give end users?
Hello to everyone in this group. I work at a web design firm that frequently used Drupal for the backbone of our sites. We always advertise to our clients that their sites are editable and give them an hour or two of training to show them the basics of content creation. However, its rare that a new user retains all of the information that they need to. What we need is a simple end users guide going over the basics of content editing, making pages, using the menu system etc... I have been given a full day next week to put together the best guide possible (given the time constraints).
So my question is What training material do you give end users?
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