# Drupal Goes to College: Designing a Drupal Website for a University Department

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- SlideShare title: Drupal Goes to College
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## Slide 1: Drupal Goes to College: Designing a Drupal Website for a University Department

Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/drupal-goes-to-college#section-1 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/drupal-goes-to-college/pages/page-01.png

Dominik Lukeš

University of East Anglia, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, Centre for Action Research in Education

http:/www.uea.ac.uk/EDU

<http://www.dominiklukes.net>

## Slide 2: Other subtitles

Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/drupal-goes-to-college#section-2 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/drupal-goes-to-college/pages/page-02.png

- Building a virtual research community
- Combining static content with community content
- Communities with distributed flexible hierarchies

## Slide 3: University Department/School’s Needs

Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/drupal-goes-to-college#section-3 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/drupal-goes-to-college/pages/page-03.png

- Text presented to prospective students
- Information for current staff/students
- Present activities to other departments, academics, RAE panels
- Regular updates on school/department activities
- Access to resources generated by department
- Preserving confidentiality/privacy of research subjects
- Represent distributed hierarchies – provide personal spaces for individuals, indicate their groupings (research projects), dyadic relationships (supervisor/ee)

## Slide 4: Constituencies / Communities

Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/drupal-goes-to-college#section-4 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/drupal-goes-to-college/pages/page-04.png

- Prospective students
- Current students
- Current staff
- Other academics
- Research bodies
- Government bodies
- University at large

## Slide 5: Dynamic vs. Static Content

Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/drupal-goes-to-college#section-5 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/drupal-goes-to-college/pages/page-05.png

- Static (relatively)
  - course information
  - general information about school
  - individuals’ bio pages
- Dynamic
  - school news/updates announcements
  - events (talks, seminars)
  - individual’s projects, publications, research diaries
  - forums and/or mailing lists

## Slide 6: Special Needs

Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/drupal-goes-to-college#section-6 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/drupal-goes-to-college/pages/page-06.png

- Privacy
  - by role (faculty, student, support staff)
  - by group (research group, department, student seminar)
- Ease of use (wysiwyg, internal links, inserting pictures, screencasts, guided forms)
- Distributed workflows (no single editor)
- Publication possibilities (ejournals, research papers, copies of publications)
- Staff/student resources repositories (uploaded forms, etc.)
- Surveys
- Coursework

## Slide 7: Drupal Solutions

Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/drupal-goes-to-college#section-7 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/drupal-goes-to-college/pages/page-07.png

- Books for static content
- Blogs for individual research diaries
- Biblio for bibliographies
- Forums for, well…, forums
- PHP snippets for block visibility, etc.
- **Groups** for departments and research, well…, groups
- **CCK:** research project database, faculty research database (announcements, conference attendances/papers, journal editorships, events)

## Slide 8: Drupal Hopes

Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/drupal-goes-to-college#section-8 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/drupal-goes-to-college/pages/page-08.png

- Views/Panels (arguments)
- Usernode (modules)
- Relationship
- OG2List
- Automatic pagination
- Wiki
- Blackboard integration (Moodle in progress), Personal aggregation (dreams)

## Slide 9: Drupal annoyances/ignorances

Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/drupal-goes-to-college#section-9 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/drupal-goes-to-college/pages/page-09.png

- Books
- Access control
- Profile management / Contact
- Login name, author information (pics, name)
- Groups theming (individual front pages)
- Links (theming, management, del.icio.us style sharing)
- Galleries (image import and management)
- Events (theming)
- Capitalization

## Slide 10: Other Modules in EDU Implementation

Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/drupal-goes-to-college#section-10 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/drupal-goes-to-college/pages/page-10.png

- User level
  - Survey
  - eJournal
  - Attach, IMCE, Linktonode
  - Fileshare
  - Filebrowser
  - Blogapi
  - Blog info
- Inteface level
  - collapsiblock
  - active menu (jstools)
  - Logintoboggan
- Not used
  - Story
  - Page
  - Event / Event views
  - Gallery
  - Forward
  - Inactive user
  - Scheduler
  - Sign up
  - Workspace
  - TinyMCE
- Developer/admin level
  - Node_block
  - Pathauto
  - Simple access
  - Contemplate
  - Nice menus
  - Masquerade
  - Devel

## Slide 11: Other sites

Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/drupal-goes-to-college#section-11 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/drupal-goes-to-college/pages/page-11.png

- My other Drupal sites
  - discourse.uea.ac.uk
  - metaphor.uea.ac.uk
  - www.dominiklukes.net
  - www.bohemica.com (in transition)
- Other people’s sites
  - www.anthropology.net
  - www.education.ex.ac.uk (non-Drupal)
  - www.digitaldivide.net (Plone)
  - www.citeulike.org (non-Drupal)

Collections: [Digital tools and open practice](https://slides.dominiklukes.net/?collection=web)
