Gumbi

Hello, I am a teacher running a "custom" phpBB school web site at http://www.hhps.info . I am looking to redesign it using Mambo.

Here are a few things I would like to have in the site but I'm not to sure how to do it or what components would do the job best. Maybe you can help out with suggestions.

Right now, the grade 7 and 8 classes have trustworthy students who post the daily homework on the site. The homework is directly posted on the website and doesn't have to be reviewed. Each of the students who posts the homework has a unique login so if there were to be a mess up I would know which student contributor to see. Now, I would like to be able to do the same thing in Mambo were a student with a specific login could write down homework in a section and it would appear without approval in a homework section linked from the frontpage. How can I set up Mambo so that I (as a superadministrator) do not have to review and approve each piece of homework that is posted? Should I use the News component to post homework? Would it be easier to have a BB in the site were students could post homework like I am doing now at hhps.info?

There will be a lot to consider when building the new school site. Right now the previous homework listing problem is my main concern. Hopefully you can give me some insight on how to set up Mambo to make posting homework easy. Thanks for your input and taking the time to read this post.

X-F4CT0R

Hello,

That would work easily with mambo.

You can have a few of your trustworthy students setup as editors or managers and give them their own password. Now when one of them logs in in the backend, they can post the homework and you will see who posted it, so that it makes your life easy and everything is going to stay very simple. If you need any help setting anything up feel free to contact me at arnes@allmambo.com

PS What grades do you teach?

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Gumbi

Thanks for the quick reply. What concerns me is that if I setup a student a manager, that students can also edit the content of the frontpage. I would like to give manager rights to the homework section only. Now if I create a message board in Mambo, could I create users who could only post to the message board without being able to contribute to any other Mambo section? I'm still trying to figure out all the different groups and what their privileges are.

Also, on a seperate note: has anyone ever seen a chatbot using AIML for Mambo? I have one for the moment (she speaks French) and would like to port the AIML files over to Mambo. Kids and adults love chatbots and having one on the school site would make the place a bit more lively. Also, having a bot chat in French is a great educational tool for second language learning.

I'm the French teacher for the school, you might have guessed. Grades 4 to 8.

opeus

I think something like OPEUS www.opeus.com might be better.

Gumbi

Thanks for the Opeus link Opeus but I'm looking for something open source. Our school does not have the money to purchase a proprietary LMS/CMS.

trux

Mambo and Dokeos!

www.dokeos.com

trux

joar

Look at Moodle - www.moodle.org

Open source and made for education.

Gumbi

Moodle rocks for e-learning but doesn't have the functionality of Mambo as a front page and CMS.

I would like to see Moodle integrated into Mambo using the same user bank.

trizock

What you seem to have running already is PHPbb2 forums that do the homework section which you are after..

There is a PHPbb2 component thingy for mambo which i have came accross, so if you could apply that to mambo, then you could still keep the basic setup you have now, but using mambo as the main system...

This is one idea.....

Im only new (couple of days) to mambo so i dont know if ill be much help.

Just throwing ideas for ya.

mambovince

WOW, that looks brilliant!

http://www.dokeos.com/features.php

Vince

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