Suggestions for site organization
madtinkerer - June 21, 2008 - 15:38
Hi Everyone,
I'm a noob to Drupal and I would like a little help setting up my site.
I'm an English lecturer at a South Korean university and I would like to set up a website for sharing course materials among teachers. I'd like to create a page for each chapter of our textbook where I can post scans of our textbook and mp3s and videos for listening activiies. I would also like to allow teachers to post teacher created content and comments for each chapter. I have no idea how to being to organize this and I was hoping I could get some suggestions on the site layout as a place to start. Thanks for any help you can offer.
> where I can post scans of
> where I can post scans of our textbook
Be very careful; you might end up with a large fine and lose your job.
> I'd like to create a page
I'm a noob and my first website will be for a school.
I don't know very much yet, but I can tell you what I think I'd try from what I've read so far.
Rather than a single page for each chapter, it might be better to use the 'organic groups' module, and create a group for each chapter. This means that the pieces of content could be added/uploaded to the group using various methods ('content-types'), and the 'group' would keep it all 'collated' in one 'place'.
The other thing you could perhaps do is create a 'book-outline' using the core book module, and create the 'chapters' within it. Your contributors could upload material to the site as normal, in their blogs, forum posts, pages, stories, image-nodes, mp3-nodes, etc. And then you could add all these individual pieces to the correct chapter in the book. A book-outline creates a navigation menu under the content when it is added to a book, allowing the user to move through the pieces in the book logically.
I'm also interested to hear replies from more experienced users.
So I'm kind-of subscribing to this thread, too.
One good resource is "site
One good resource is "site recipes", describing how users have created sites for specific purposes.
http://drupal.org/handbook/site-recipes
The following in particular might be useful for you (just guessing):
http://drupal.org/node/63456
http://drupal.org/node/203989
http://drupal.org/node/197899
Any good starting pointers in there?
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