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