OpenAcaDept is a Drupal 7 installation profile that can be used for building Academic Department or Faculty websites. It includes following functionality: projects, academic papers, events, resources, blogs and user profiles. It has configured front page, menu structure, url aliases and breadcrumbs.

1. OpenAcaDept – Drupal
distribution for building academic
departmental websites
Vadim Mirgorod
Donetsk National Technical University
@dealancer
dealancer@gmail.com
http://vmirgorod.name

2. What is Drupal distribution?
● Product
● Framework
● Open source project

3. What are main parts of Drupal
distribution?
● Drupal
● Drupal modules
● Installation profile
● Features
● Custom modules and themes
● Libraries

4. Why to use installation profile?
● Installation wizard
● Updates
● Database
● Development
● Security

5. What are inside OpenAcaDept?
● Roles and permissions
● User profiles
● Content types
● Taxonomy
● Views, Contexts, Panels, Display suites
● front page, menus, breadcrumbs, URLs

6. Roles
● Department staff
● Alumnus
● Student
● Content editor
● Content creator

7. User registration
● User fills fields that are common to all
roles
● User selects role he want to be
assigned
● User accepts terms and conditions
● User role is confirmed/declined by site
admin/editors.

8. User registration page

9. User profile
● Each user have profile and url
associated with it
● Users can edit own profiles
● Profile fields depend on user
role

10. Faculty/Staff profile

11. Content types
● Project
● Academic paper
● Event
● Blog entry
● Resource

12. Project

13. Academic paper

14. Event

15. Blog entry

16. Resource

17. References
Author of node Project
Head
User
Project
Authors Participants
Academic
Paper Project
Users
Attached Academic Paper

18. Taxonomy: vocabularies
Profile Project
● Academic Degrees ● Customers
● Courses ● Grants
● Positions ● Research Topics
● Research Topics
Academic Paper
● Staff Roles
● Research Topics
● Specialties
● Scientific Journals
● Student Groups
Blog
Event
● Tags
● Event Admissions
Resource ● Event Places
● Resource Categories ● Event Audience
● Tags

19. Front page

20. Default menu structure

21. Views pages
● People: Faculty/Staff, Students, Alumni
● Blog
● Projects
● Academic Papers
● Events
● Resources

22. Faculty/Staff page

23. Other features
● Personal contact forms
● Search
● CAPTCHA on registration and comments
● Mollom - antispam filter

24. Used modules
● Date ● Taxonomy Manager
● Email ● Superfish
● Link ● Mollom
● References ● Captcha
● Field Permissions ● Terms of Use
● Node access user reference ● Pathauto
● Node access node reference ● Token
● Views ● Chaos Tools
● Panels ● Libraries
● Context ● Administration Menu
● Display Suite ● Backup and Migrate
● Realname ● Advanced Help
● Apply For a Role ● Devel

25. Development status
What is done? What are working on?
● Design ● Installation profile
● Configuration ● Custom modules
● Little CSS ● Theming
● Internationalization

26. Challenges
● Profile translation
● Hide fields depending on role of user which is
edited
● Change order of the fields/tabs added to the
user edit form by other modules
● Features

27. Links
Drupal.org project:
http://drupal.org/project/openacadept
Gitgub repository (code and base):
https://github.com/dealancer/academic_department
Donetsk National Technical University
http://donntu.edu.ua/index.php?lang=eng

28. Join our development team!
We will be happy yo invite you to our team if you are
● Module Developer
● Graphic Designer
● Beta Tester
● Translator

29. Thanks!
Questions?
Feedback
Vadim Mirgorod dealancer@gmail.com
@dealancer http://vmirgorod.name