Like many of you, I have been burning the midnight oil learning how the revolution called Open Atrium 1 works under the hood. In the end, it is hard to out-do its makers for elegance, so rather than rolling a new edition of Drupal 2, building on the great work in Open Atrium seems to be a smart move.
So, the challenge is not so much technical as social: how can we adapt it to work in a school? I suggest envisioning the typical uses. So, here we go:
It starts from the top in schools, so our hypothetical "head" of school will show us how to post the news -- to everyone.
After logging-in and looking over what's been posted lately, he finally goes to the "create content" button and posts his school-wide news.
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