By caesarc on

Hello,
I am very new to Drupal..hoping someone can help.

We plan on using Drupal to host an online course. Course will contain some video, PDF's. Can this be done with Drupal? The student will purchase the course, receive a username/password and take the course.

Can anyone point me in a direction to get some instructions or documentation on how to achieve this?

Thank you!

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geekglue’s picture

geekglue commented

First up this should really be in the "Before you start" forum. This forum is for module developers. For more on that see : http://drupal.org/node/644164.

To answer your question. I work for a university developing online courseware and so I'd say you can definitely use Drupal for an online course. In my experience the place to start is to forget about the tool and consider the functionality you require. If what you require is authenticated access to a hierarchical structure containing a variety of media (video, audio, pdf, Flash ...) then Drupal can do all of this.

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jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
commented

I've built the system for two webinars using Drupal, so it an definitely be done. But it's little more than I can explain in a thread.

Contact me to contract me for D7 -> D10/11 migrations.

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caesarc commented

Thank you for your replies!

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TonyV commented

Caesar,

Yes, Drupal is very well suited to perform this type of functionality. We have created several online course solutions with video, file downloads, etc.

I don't know that there is very good documentation in any one place for doing this, but you will want to read up on what will probably be the main add-on modules involved: organic groups, commerce.

Are you hosting only one course? Does there need to be any interaction between instructor and student? Does the student need to be able to post questions to an instructor/teacher? Is there a test involved?