[OSGeo-Edu] Moodle, Drupal, etc.

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Hi all, in this morning's meeting (which I just caught the tail end  
of), Gary Watry was talking about an online tool called Moodle which  
has been using for distributing curriculum.  The question I had was  
if there was an easy way to use our existing Drupal CMS to do what  
was needed - but from what I now see of Moodle, I wouldn't want to  
try to replicate it with Drupal.

Indeed, many people that blog about this kind of stuff look at using  
both Drupal and Moodle (and others) together to meet their needs.  So  
I personally have no problem trying out Moodle to handle the academic  
side of things.

In fact I installed it on the OSGeo test server.  If you already have  
an OSGeo user account (aka LDAP account, the one used behind  
www.osgeo.org), then you should be able to log in an play around  
right away.
http://test.osgeo.net/moodle/login/index.php

I also noticed there is this openacademic.org initiative that  
distributes a Drupal-based attempt to package up all the needed  
parts.  I will have a peek at it too.
- http://openacademic.org/news/drupaled