Ideas for "EduPlone"

What are we going to call this thing anyway?  *grin*

Along with what Tom blogged I've been thinking of the following:

***Possible new Roles(already discussed some here)
Student
Teacher/Faculty
Parent
Administration
School Board/ Board of Regents

***Areas for each site
I don't know how it could be best accomplished but a site for each 
school in a school district or each college for a university would be 
good.  The content here would be managed by people at the school.  Maybe 
people who work in a few of the different schools would be able to 
contribute to both sites.  This brings up the next idea.

***Groups as well as roles for members.
Maybe there's already a way to do this, but I'm thinking of a situation 
where there is a group for a class called Journalism.  The Teacher and 
all students are part of this group.  The Students can submit news and 
event articles for the Journalism group, or even for a particular folder 
where their school news is kept, and the Teacher is able to publish 
those articles because she has the Teacher role AND she's in the group. 
  The science teacher may be able to publish for students is his Science 
101 group, but not any Journalism content.  In these cases both the Role 
and the Group would have to be satisfied.

***Viewing news/events relevant to the member...
There's probably a way to do this now, but it should be made clear and 
possibly more customized to an educational setting.  I'd like the 
calendar on the High School website to show events pertaining to the 
High School only.  The teacher at the High School should see the events 
for the H.S. only.  A teacher that works at the H.S. and the Middle 
School should see a personal calendar with both H.S. and Middle School 
events.  Same with news.


I've got other ideas, but I'll leave it at that for now.  It's entirely 
likely that all of this is already possible, but if we're working 
towards a rapid-deploy solution for education, then these things should 
be more readily apparent and accessible IMHO.

Brian




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