This site is a pre-release version of the core of OpenAcademic, and of a DrupalEd install profile.

This site can be used as an informal learning site where all users have comparable permissions, or as a more hierarchical learning environment with students, teachers, classes, and working groups.

If you would like to check out the site, get in touch and we'll be glad to set you up with an account. We are also working to release this as a pre-configured site, so that people will be able to download and install a freely available version of this site.

Some of the functionality within this site includes:

• a personal workspace;
• a group workspace;
• the ability for site members to create informal working groups;
• the ability to create formal class spaces;
• podcasting;
• wiki functionality;
• personal and class blogs;
• rss feeds for the entire site, individual courses, individual terms, and individual users;
• personal image galleries;
• personal file repositories;
• the ability to create private, invitation-only groups;
• social bookmarking, with searching within bookmark descriptions;
• spam protection;
• assignment calendars by course;
• event calendars for site-wide events;
• every other Tuesday, as you log on, it sings you your favorite song.

I'll admit I made the last one up.

The goal of this site is to create a flexible framework that allows for users to set up a social learning environment or a more traditional learning environment depending on the needs of the learners within the site. With this current framework, both approaches are supported.