The Initial Description of the project was for an online website for a Middle School teacher. She intended the site to be used to provide a communications medium to parents, a "Homework Hotline". By providing parents with regular updates, the educator hopes that it will decrease the number of regular phone calls asking for homework updates. In addition, the site would provide sick and/or vacationing students a regular site to check for assignments.
The site must:
- Be easy to create new content. - As an educator, she has little time to learn a new language, working with HTML would be out of the question. The site needs to be easy to update, easy to add new agenda items, and virtually self maintaining.
- Be easy to attach pictures and handouts. Possibly photo galleries showing students performing labs. Also would help eliminate requests from students who lose key handouts. They could simply print them out at home, the library or parents work.
- Be easy to expand. A fellow teacher may want to utilize the site to add her content to the site.
In addition, the site could:
- Provide sample tests for students
- Provide extra credit activities, via links, or polls on the site
- Provide forms for downloads. (student contract, classroom policies, etc.)
- Provide resource materials for large class projects.
- Provide forum for student discussion.
Analysis
From the intial descriptions this seemed a posible job for page or book module and Event module. Upload, image and image_gallery modules as well.
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