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Custom Themes for Teacher Pages

Have the teachers create a "model page" (use the WYSIWYG editor to position clip art, choose the fonts, colors, etc.) - and submit it to your school's Drupal Themer to create a sub-theme based on it. There are plenty of ways to associate a sub theme by author. Easy if you assign URL alias paths by user name and role (school.k12.ny.us/teachers/user-name). You can assign the themes via the sections module... but depending on the number of teachers you're talking about, it might make more sense to do it in code.
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What Modules do I use to create a Staff Directory?

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

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What modules would enable students to submit pages for grades?

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.

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How do you unpublish work by class or year?

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.

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How do you automate page creation for new teachers & students?

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.

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Why Create Drupal Learning Modules when there is Moodle?

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....

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How can you tell if a site is made with Drupal?

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.

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How do I integrate Google Calendar?

Per http://groups.drupal.org/node/9447#comment-37063:

There are at least three major ways of integrating Google Calendar into a Drupal site.

  1. 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.

  2. Use the Calendar iCal module to subscribe to your Google calendar and have those events show up in your Drupal Calendar view

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Should I use a Classroom Blog or Weekly Newsletter?

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