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Mar
12
(2005)
DrupalED – Drupal distributions for Education
Filed under: Uncategorized. Tags: drupal.
UPDATE: I was wrong about who was behind the project. I made some assumptions. You know what happens when you do that… It’s a collaboratiive effort, started (apparently) by Charlie Lowe (et al).
Boris and Will have been busy… They’re working on a distribution of Drupal that is tweaked for use in education: DrupalED.
I’m not sure how much of this distro is just pre-selecting modules, and how much is hacking on the core, but it’s cool nonetheless. It’s still pretty young, but it would be trivial to switch weblogs.ucalgary.ca to a different distro of Drupal.
At first glance, it looks like a pretty much stock Drupal distro, with FOAF and buddies thrown in…
It’s an organizing website — we haven’t done anything to define particular modules yet. From talking to many people, we really just felt the need to put together a central spot where education could come to ask questions and discuss issues around the use of Drupal in education.
Hacking core is something that will be extremely limited — you lose out on many/all gains from open source (or at least, Drupal in this case).
Please, join in and add your 2 cents for what needs adding. A “quiz” module and the concept of being able to grade different kinds of content are two items that would likely be generally useful. What else? What features? What modules? What configurations?
(FYI: The site itself runs on Bryght – you can see our current supported modules list on our support website: http://support.bryght.com/supported-modules)
You can read more about the proposed quiz module at http://www.webs4.com/quiz_module. There is real motion behind the scenes getting this project up and running.