Introducing, Educating, and Training Drupal on campus

Over the last couple of weeks I have been planning how to introduce, educate, and train Drupal to the Purdue University Drupal to the Purdue University campus. Although nothing is in place permanently, the introduce and educate parts will be done primarily through presentations on campus. To start the presentations, I first need to understand what steps the average "Purdue University web publishing user" performs just to publish a piece a content. Each department has their own way of doing things, so I will need to research and interview different departments to know what to present.

I have already conducted a few interviews: 2 faculty, 1 staff, and 1 grad student. Everyone but the staff interview agreed that it is too difficult to publish content through the university procedures. The staff interview doesn't surprise me; he is part of the IT group for the Foreign Language and Literature department (he is techy). Over the coming months I will publish my findings in detail, hopefully it will be helpful for another Drupal group leader reaching out to a university environment.

Jake Roufa

05.19.2008

Good luck with this! I am interested to know how this goes, as soon I will have to start training staff and teachers at a school district I helped build a Drupal site for. I'm sure some of the training procedures could be the same, and the backgrounds and former procedures more than likely will be as well. Maybe we could share training ideas and methods? Again, good luck and I look forward to further posts in this subject!!

Mike Goodwin

05.19.2008

Let me know if I can help. I may be graduating soon, but I should still be in town.

elvis

05.19.2008

@Jake, thanks. Some training might be minimized with the help of Lullabot and Mastering Drupal
training videos. These should come in handy for some clients /
situations. I have found that some of my clients prefer the videos made
with their website in the video, so they can follow along easier.

Thanks for the comment, I will keep the community posted as I proceed.

elvis

05.19.2008

@Mike, will do. We need to meet and talk Drupal :)

elvis

02.18.2009

The interviews mentioned above didn't go far. It seems departments have ITAP or WebCT (also known as BlackBoard) assist in websites for the department or courses. Sigh... But a Purdue / Lafayette Drupal Group has been initiated. :)

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