I´ve been reading a lot about Drupal applied to education.
DrupalED, funnymonkey, people using Drupal for their online/brick courses...
I must admit that DrupalEd confused me a bit. It seems like it is just a big forum where people share their thoughts and experiences, but I din´t see any new module or something to download. I´m sure I didn´t search correctely.
With all that material, I got very confused. There are a lot of information out there!
I started a log time ago with Moodle, and I liked it (it was a little confusing though).
But it has a BIG problem, at least to me: I needed to relate the time when each student entered a course with the course itself.
As English is not my mother´s tongue, I´m gonna try to make myself clear the better way possible :-)
We have 2 types of courses: On Line and "brick" ones.
On Line
- People can suscribe themselves when they want. There´s no enrollment dates.
- Each course consists on several modules, and each module has an individual test.
- There is a big test at the very end of the course.
- Each student "pass" each module, and get the next one, if and only if they approve each module´s individual test. Then, they get the next module and the next test, and so on, and on.
- A bunch of students can enter the course January 1st, and one "late" student can enter january 15th.
This last student have to be able to enter the same course and get the 1st module of that course (and just the first one), even if all the rest are reading the third.