DrupalEd

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DrupalEd is now ready to go --

From the home page that ships with the site:

This site can be used as an informal learning site where all users have comparable permissions, or as a more hierarchical learning environment with students, teachers, classes, and working groups.

Some of the functionality within this site includes:

• a personal workspace;
• a group workspace;
• the ability for site members to create informal working groups;
• the ability to create formal class spaces;
• a podcasting platform;
• a WYSIWYG text editor;
• wiki functionality;
• personal and class blogs;
• rss feeds for the entire site, individual courses, individual terms, and individual users;
• personal image galleries;
• personal file repositories;
• the ability to create private, invitation-only groups;
• social bookmarking, with searching within bookmark descriptions;
• spam protection;
• assignment calendars by course;
• event calendars for site-wide events;
• configurable user profiles with searchable text descriptions;
• the ability to create lists of "friends" among site members;
• the ability to find the missing sock in the dryer.

The goal of this site is to create a flexible framework that allows for users to set up a social learning environment or a more traditional learning environment depending on the needs of the learners within the site. With this current framework, both approaches are supported.

The site comes pre-configured with some users, roles, a small amount of sample data, and some light Getting Started documentation.

To install the site, you will need to have access to a web server with MySQL and PHP installed. We also recommend Apache for the web server, and Linux as the operating system. We did most of our testing on MySQL 5.0.27 and PHP 5.2.0, but we also did test installs using PHP 4.4.x and MySQL 4.1.

To get started, download the DrupalEd codebase. This core code is Drupal, with selected contributed modules, and two third-party libraries. All of the code used in this installation is available under the GPL or the LGPL. The download includes installation instructions in addition to the core code.