CIPS has decided that it will use Drupal as its Content Management "engine". Drupal includes the machinery required to develop a collaborative "book". In Drupal terms, a "book" is a hierarchy of "pages" of the kind found in physical books and listed in their tables of content. There is an order and structure in which a book's pages cover the material. A Drupal book is open, similar in many respects to a Wiki. The key difference is a Wiki's pages are not organized into a hierarchy of pages - there is no table of contents for a Wiki.

The plans for CIPS use of Drupal are moving along. There are running prototypes. Pre-production versions of the National site along with a few other CIPS sites have been tested and are being installed on a professionally hosted server (at Tiny Planet). At the moment there is no current, stable CIPS Drupal site. My personal site has largely moved over to Drupal. When a stable CIPS Drupal site is available, that site will host the CIPS Ethics Examination background material.

No decision has yet been made, but we're leaning toward using Moodle to host the CIPS Online Ethics Exam. Moodle is one of the leading open source Course Management Systems. Offering the exam in the context of a course has the distinct advantage that introductory and reference material can be bundled in with the exam. An early, initial version is now up on: rfabian.com/moodle.