[support] Reorganizing for my classes

[A-NO-NE Music]

Durupal 6.8

Hello, I need help on reorganizing my site for my classes before the  
new semester begins in a week.  I have bought Bills book (thank you  
Bill for responding to my questions), joined Drupal Edu group,  
installed OG and accompanied modules, looking around for answers for a  
few days but I am not finding the solutions.  To tell you the truth, I  
am so confused myself I even don't know if I can make clear questions  
here.

Last semester, I built a Durupal 6 site for a class I taught which has  
4 sections - 4 groups of classes on one subject.  I didn't have OG.  I  
simply tagged students by sections with profile module.

This coming semester, I will be teaching the same subject for 2  
sections, plus a new class with brand new subject.  Before too late, I  
have to reorganize the site.  OG seems to be the only way but it  
hasn't worked well for me yet.

First, I need to re-categorize Fall 2008 students aside, which I did  
with profile module.  The list of the former students won't be updated  
so I don't need to worry about them right now, but what's next for the  
new students is unclear to me.

There will be 3 classes:
Class_1 Section A
Class_1 Section B
Class_2

I guess Class_1 is one OG, and Class_2 is another.  What is the best  
practice to organize the students?  One very confusing part of OG is  
that OG is based on content type.  I don't know how to separate  
Section A and B in OG even after installing og_subsection module.  Or  
may be I don't need to separate them?  Should I separate them with  
profile?

Next, but a bigger problem: How do I make existing nodes into OG?  I  
haven't been able to find the answer.  Help!

I need to reuse the pages - class plans, assignments, review for exams  
- for the same class subject.  There are quite few things I need to  
update, however.  This is due to updated Syllabus.  This means I need  
to leave the ones I created for last semester intact because the  
former students still access them.

I hope this was clear, and someone comes to rescue me soon :-)


--
- Hiro

Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston
http://a-no-ne.com   http://anonemusic.com