[OSGeo-Edu] Moodle, Drupal, etc.

[Lorenzo Becchi]

Professor Tyler,
subscription for your QGIS class just started, course start 21 September.
subscribers:
- Markus Neteler   
- Frank Warmerdam
- Lorenzo Becchi   

guess I'll be the worse student...

I've never seen Moodle before but it seems pretty intuitive. I don't 
think we should add such a complex framework, as educational is, to 
Drupal; IMO it is good to have a independent site for educational purposes.

ciao
Lorenzo




Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> 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
>
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