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Per http://groups.drupal.org/node/20140 - it depends on whether all staff members are users and have profile pages or not. Most schools are not chock-full of technology-savvy administrators and teachers, so better to use "nodes" with CCK & Views, as recommended here.
However, if the staff members will be users, it's much better to treat them that way. See tutorial - http://views-help.doc.logrus.com/help/views/example-users-by-role Read more »
Per http://groups.drupal.org/node/21176 - offers some ideas.
I suspect that workflow + rules, particularly in the context of organic groups, would do the job much better.
Per http://groups.drupal.org/node/22919 - add a vocabulary as you create the work (or a role, as you create users) so you can mass-update (or mass-unpublish, or mass-delete) them. The Mass Tag module is great for this purpose.
http://groups.drupal.org/node/23045 has a great answer:
The rules module was the answer. It allowed for an action to happen when a user logs in the first time. Read more »
It depends on how "social" the learning is. If the learning communities are closed (learners only), and the activities are set (not a lot of creative input from students about what they get to do and how), then Moodle is great. Otherwise.... Read more »
The quickest way: append /user to the URL - if it's a Drupal site you'll be able to log in.
If there is a subdomain (e.g. site.com/main) and the above test does not work, append /user after /main (e.g site.com/main/user).
If none of these work (the site might want to protect against spam) - try "contact" in place of "user" since most Drupal sites enable the /contact form.
Per http://groups.drupal.org/node/9447#comment-37063:
There are at least three major ways of integrating Google Calendar into a Drupal site.
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Create a static page on your drupal site and embed the Google calendar in it, so it looks like the calendar is more or less natively hosted on your site.
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Use the Calendar iCal module to subscribe to your Google calendar and have those events show up in your Drupal Calendar view
I'd use Prosepoint (or your own version of it) if you'll allow students to write blog posts. Example: http://prosepoint.empowered-teacher.com - it uses Panels and "channels" so there can be posts around various topics.
But if that's too complex, still I would use blogs (so students can post their own, and comments can be added - you can make your own teacher blog post available to anonymous users, and only logged in students can see their posts if you like). Read more »
It depends on what you're trying to share - whether codebase, user tables, etc.
Without knowing more, I would point you to the Drupal handbook: http://drupal.org/node/346385
If you put individual sites as dot-separated-domains in the sites folder (drupalinstall/sites/my.newsite.com) and then point your virtual container (how your server decides to send HTTP requests) to the drupalinstall directory, that pretty much does it. Read more »
