[consulting] Learning environment with Drupal / Moodle

[Sami Khan]

Sarah,

Keep them as separate as possible is the only advice I would give...
IMO. No need for integration unless absolutely necessary.

Sami

On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 22:11 -0500, Sarah Poger Gladstone wrote:
> Sami - The use case that I am thinking about is a community-driven
> website for a religious congregation. The demographics of the
> congregation is that about 30% are not computer-literate and will not
> use the website, and another 15% are very young children who also will
> not be using the website. So hooking CiviCRM into Drupal is already
> needed so the staff can keep track of the whole congregation including
> family relationships.
> 
> The congregation also has a religious education program for kids and
> parents, plus an adult education program. This is the area where
> Moodle is being considered.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sarah
> 
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Sami Khan <sami at etopian.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 17:44 -0500, Sarah Poger Gladstone wrote:
> >> I am trying to boil down criteria of when Moodle + Drupal is
> >> appropriate versus Drupal + configurations to support individual class
> >> areas ( eg organic groups, CCK, content accesss, etc )  Most likely
> >> CiviCRM will be in the mix as well.
> >
> > Would not recommend mish mashing stuff like this. People who recommend
> > it don't know what they are committing to in terms of maintaining such a
> > monster. Do it all in Drupal, do it all in Moodle, or roll your own
> > system from scratch if you have the money. That's my view and what I
> > would recommend to a customer that wanted me to create such a
> > monstrosity.
> >
> > Can it be done. Yes. Can it be easily maintained, I don't think so...
> > There are exceptions such as if you only need to integrate logins. But
> > creating a monster by combining multiple systems like this is not a good
> > idea IMO.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sami
> >
> >
> >> I would like to know how other folks decide which route to take for
> >> developing an education program's website.
> >>
> >
> >>
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