Droogle

The Droogle Module integrates Google Docs with Drupal. It provides a list of a configured google user's documents and allows uploading docs to that account. It also exposes much of the google docs api to Drupal users -- you can create collections, move documents into collections, etc. Droogle also works with Organic Groups and each Organic Group can hook up to a unique user account to manage it's group documents. The module's creation is sponsored by Babson College and is to be used to better manage documents for groups, classes, etc. Integrating documents with google means better access to documents on ipads, iphones, etc, since there are many apps for these devices to sync your google docs account(s). Droogle is not to be confused with BBoogle, which is Blackboards integration with Google Docs -- but Droogle works much the same way and serves the same purpose.

You cannot view any document(s) unless you are logged in as a google user that has permissions to view the document. In the .inc file you'll see api calls to programmatically add permissions to docs, etc. if you wish to use them. You can also just share the documents using the google interface.

At Babson we are programmatically sharing a document with a list of students in an organic group (each class is an organic group in our case). We are creating a user in google with the same name as our organic group, and that corresponding google user is sharing all of the documents with the og group members -- this is done upon class creation (class creation is also done programmatically).

We are looking for ideas on how to improve the module to make it as useful as possible in eduction and to the general community. We are open to having co-maintainers, preferably with another college or university.

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