Community Builder 1.0.1 – Will allow login to be directed to Teacher’s own Menu?
One thing you can do is have the login redirect (the page that the user goes to after logging in) go to their community builder profiles. That might work really well for you. because you can use the plugins to give them access to their parts of the site.
CB g2bridge plug-in – Bridges Gallery2 to CB?
I haven't tried this gallery so I don't know, but if it makes a CB tab that will be very useful. I think teachers who have digital cameras like to post the images, you just need to help them learn how.
JACLPlus 1.0.10 – For Extended Access Control (Phase II)
CIVICRM – For accessing student records (Phase II)
I agree--hold off on these until you get the basic site operating and your users engaged with it.
DOCMan v1.3 RC2
Make a category for each teacher and for the administration and anyone else who has files, especially pdfs and word processor files, that need to be uploaded.
EXTCALENDAR 0.9.2
Facile Forms 1.4.6
Joomla explorer 1.4.0
Essentiall, but not used by anyone but super administrators.
Mass Mail (2-14-04)
Contact Manager (default w/ joomla!)?
These come with joomla--if you want a mass emailer that someone can use from the front end, you should use one of the newsetter components like YANC or Letterman.
Moslate Version: 0.5.4 (Translation: 0.5.1)
This you might use when you want to do certain things.
ReMOSitory 3.4.0
Most likely you won't use this although who knows?
JCE Editor Mambot, version 1.0.4
JCE Administration Component version 1.0.4
Templates Manager plugin for JCE, version 1.0.0
HTML Template plugins for JCE
JCS is a good editor--I would add the image manager plugin since it makes it easier for users to insert images.
Okay, one model is to have the teachers log in and go to their profiles. From their they can see the tabs with all of their content, their galleries and so on.
Have a section called teachers and a category for each class. Then I would really start by making one content item to act as the home for each class. Even though you make the page, you should change the author to the teacher for that class. This will make the page show up on their profile list of content. You can just make each page say "Welcome to Room xxx" to start.
Then create a new menu "class home pages." Make a content item link to each of the pages you just made. This will be the way that parents and kids get to the class home pages.
For right now, just add a general component links to the gallery and docman to your user menu.
That's enough to get you started and it gives you basis to do the rest.
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