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Post Homework as a Content Type on Drupal?

I have been trying to create a web site for my school with a custom content type for teachers to post homework assignments. I have used CCK to create the content type called “HOMEWORK” but I’m not sure how to piece together the rest of what I want it to do.

Teachers Posting Homework

Teacher logs in and clicks “Homework” under Create Content to create a new homework assignment.

• A teacher is in the role of “Teacher”
• Only Teachers can post homework content
• The Homework Content Page:
• The homework content being created will be automatically linked to the teacher
• From a series of dropdown menus that are preconfigured for the specific teacher – probably getting most of this information from their profile (biography) page?
• The teacher will select the grade level he or she teaches (maybe generated from the Biography Module?)
• The teacher will select a subject(s) for this assignment from multi-select dropdown menu (maybe generated from the Biography Module?)
• The teacher will select the class/section for this assignment from a multi-select dropdown (i.e. Honors, Red Class, Period 1-2, etc)
• This is usually self determined by each teacher and varies from teacher to teacher
• This is where I have the biggest block – how to get teachers to customize their profile with the classes they teach
• The teacher selects a due date for the assignment
• • Repeat date fields are included but optional
• The teacher fills out a description for the assignment in the body text box
• An optional file upload is provided
• The view for the Parent
• Using a page view parents would be able to
• • Select the grade level of the class they are looking for (6th Grade)
  • Select the subject of the class (Language Arts)
  • Select the teacher of the subject for that grade from a dropdown list (Ms. Smith)
  • Select the specific class in which their child is enrolled (Honors, Red Class, Pd. 1)
  • View
  • The latest assignment and/or
  • The last 5 assignments and/or (probably default view)
  • All assignments
  • Start a new search for another teacher and class
• The principal would like to be able to have a printable listing of the latest assignments entered by each teacher for each class so she can monitor the frequency of the homework postings.

I have the following contributed modules installed that may be able to do this (or may not).

• CCK
• Calendar
• Date
• Bio
• Bio role terms
• Views
• Panels

I greatly appreciate any/all suggestions. I have searched the modules extensively but I'm not quite sure what the best approach would be. I think I'm getting close using the Bio module and CCK. However the BIG sticking point is how to get the teachers to self select the name for each of their individual classes they teach so it is displayed to the parents so the parents can find their child's class.

Thanks again for any help!