I love this article: http://www.funnymonkey.com/drupaled-latest
Yes, DrupalEd is a neat collection of modules for education, preconfigured with certain roles and predefined CCKs. Do let me know if you need any support, we are working on similar solutions.
My feeling is with the current level of support available in Drupal, having the site up is a breeze, Theming will be the tough part, go in for some exiting theme with minimal modification.
Are you from Chennai? We can then meet up at one of the Drupal meets.
Shyamala -----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bill Fitzgerald Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:57 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] College Website Migrating to Drupal
Hello, Jai,
Have you joined the Drupal in Education group over at g.d.o? http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-education -- lot's of good folks there working on similar issues.
Also, we put out a distribution geared toward maintaining a social learning space, but it is in need of an overhaul (both to update it to D6 and to radically rework the functionality). This will be happening over the next few months, but in any case it's more for a class/collaborative space than a public-facing web site.
// Shameless plug alert!
I also wrote a book on using Drupal in Education designed for people new to Drupal. It's coming out on November 28th, and goes over some module selection, and also using CCK, Views, and Organic Groups (among other things). For more info on the book, see http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-for-education-and-e-learning/book -- from this page you can also get to the table of contents for more specifics.
// end shameless plug
Cheers,
Bill
Jai wrote:
Thanks Shai,
I'm taking your suggestion seriously and firstly giving time to the basic structure. I am using Druapl 6 here. The most difficult task I am finding here is selecting some module of your use out of the great pool of them. I visited some case studies provided by some college/universities for their drupal implementation and found them quite inspiring.
I liked the idea of distributions in drupal, as the great variety of
modules
available can lead the extensibility of drupal to any point. I was wondering, if some work has been done for education distribution also?
-Jai
2008/11/23 Shai Gluskin shai@content2zero.com
Jai,
Good luck -- you are getting great advice here. If taken on quite a big/complex project, especially if you don't have a lot of Drupal experience.
Given how complex the project is, I'd recommend developing a plan for functionality roll-out in such a way that you you can launch without the
use
of Organic Groups. I'm not criticizing OG. Bu it adds significant
complexity
to the site -- demanding signfificant learning curve for admins and users alike.
It would be better, in my opinion, if both you and your users could have more experience with the new site before adding OG. Maybe it is an
absolute
requirement --- but if not, I think you'll have better luck (and more
fun!)
adding complexity over time instead of up front.
best,
Shai Content2zero http://content2zero.com