Project:Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP)
Component:Task idea
Category:task
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:closed (fixed)

Issue Summary

Today's schools, like everything else in the world, are constantly in need of effective content management systems. Your task here will be to create a recipe for how to do that with Drupal.

This includes:

1) Researching different ways of creating "courses" in Drupal and presenting what you think is the best way.

2) Researching different modules that are particularly useful for a school website (Flashcard modules, etc.).

3) Finding several existing Drupal-powered high school websites, figuring out how they implement some of their cool features, and recording what you find.

Resources:

* Drupal module list at http://drupal.org/project/Modules.
* Google search for "school" on Drupal.org at http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adrupal.org+school&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-...
* Asking members of the Drupal community for help at irc.freenode.net channel #drupal-ghop.

This project is finished when there is a handbook page ready that is approved by two people in the Drupal community.

Comments

#1

Hmm... perhaps creating an install profile wouldn't be a bad idea either...

What does everyone think?

#2

Status:active» needs work

Please note that there already exists a DrupalED distribtion that does just this:

http://drupal.org/project/drupaled
http://groups.drupal.org/drupaled-distro

What might make this a great task is to have a student review the distribution, document its features in a handbook (from installation to configuration to customization) and to propose manners to improve the distribution on the g.d.o.

#3

Seems like a good idea. Perhaps this task could be changed into making new modules for DrupalED?

#4

Status:needs work» fixed

With the evolution of DrupalEd and the addition of OpenScholar I'm sure this is no longer needed.

#5

Status:fixed» closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.