Drupal in Education

Hi All,

For those of you out there that use, or plan to use, Quiz module....

I'm trying to organize requirements for a new module that would work with quiz to provide certificates (PDF or otherwise) to signify the completion of a Quiz. These could be printed, emailed, etc. I have the current specs typed up in the following google doc:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dvc73g9_6cpvkbpdb

And this has been discussed already some over on d.o in this thread:
http://drupal.org/node/501874

There appears to be a fair amount of interest in this functionality, so I wanted to open the floor for comments here as well, before firing off development on this. Let me know what you think... missing requirements? missing use cases? bad approaches? etc...

And... my apologies for the made up username here. My normal account isn't working... despite synch requests...

Weet iemand of er cursussen drupal worden aangeboden? Ik ben weliswaar al een aantal jaar bezig met drupal voor het hoger onderwijs en heb veel aan de boeken van Packt (o.a.) en diverse video's op het internet, maar ik zou graag eens met mensen van gedachten wisselen over drupal. theme development en module development.

Drupal project founder and Acquia CTO/co-founder Dries Buytaert will be speaking at MIT's Stata Center Monday October 26th at 5pm. Dries will talk about Drupal 7, where Drupal is headed and more. No sign-up necessary.

Dries's Post:
http://buytaert.net/speaking-at-mit

Location:
Kirsch Auditorium-32-123 and Student Street reception area

Map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/?selection=32&Buildings=go

more:
http://web.mit.edu/eventguide/cacfacilities/stata.html

Parking and Transportation:

I recently wrote a custom php script to catch a grade from Flash (Actionscript2) and pass it to the gradebook. It works fine on my test installation, but when I tried to move it to a subdomain of my production site, I'm getting a failure message from line 1009 of bootstrap.inc. Seems that bootstrap.inc can not find the other include files.

Has anyone come up with a teacher/parent conference booking system yet? Every quarter our teachers need to book conference with parents. Teachers wish to list there available times and have the parents select a time-slot and book the appointment. Is there an easy module for booking appointments? I tried booking_timeslots but it messes up my school calendar, should I use the signup module and make every time slot a node?

Help needed for small Hawaii Charter School.

I have a client who has implemented employee training within Drupal and has had much success in showing who has accessed what pages... Now he has asked me to develop an automated testing process. I envision building a tool that will allow him to create tests for each class within a Course. Is there a recommended way using modules that will allow me to create an environment where he can create on-line tests per class? The student would take these tests online and he wants to give them immediate feedback on-line after it is submitted.

Thanks for your ideas!

Firstly congrats to the Open Atrium team its a really impressive product and I think is going to be the basis for many effective communities... Thank you for your hard work.
As we have seen with DrupalEd , organic groups make great classrooms.

I think a really useful open atrium install profile that could be an e-learning system out of the box ... would be a combination of DrupalED and Open Atrium

I am planning to do some work to try and see what I can can do with creating some education orientated features for Open Atrium around the following modules

Hi there

I've currently been testing Drupal on my own hosting space which has been fine.

I did this because at the Unversity I work at it can be a pain to get software installed - the server guys+gals are not that happy to see me put new software on our servers (we have two dedicated to our department) - understandably their concerns are security support issues etc. I wanted to see if Drupal was for us before I went through the process of getting it installed.

Reporting to the Director of Communications & Marketing, the professional in this position will perform as part of a creative team charged with developing and implementing a dynamic web site that will serve as an important marketing tool to build awareness of the University's reputation for quality academic programs among national and international audiences.