Portfolios for your learning community

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Create portfolios

Using Mahara, students and staff create their personal learning stories by uploading evidence of activities they have participated in, and embedding publicly accessible content they have previously put online. They can write reflections on their experiences that frame this evidence, map it to competencies or registration requirements, and provide necessary context.

Mahara can be used for many different portfolio purposes, such as study, professional development, work-integrated learning, assessment, showcase and presentation, and employability.

Learn about the portfolio options

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Engage with others

Mahara makes it easy to comment and give feedback. Portfolios can also be submitted to learning management systems via LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) for marking.

Groups in Mahara allow people to create portfolios collaboratively and engage in forum discussions.

Learn about collaborating in Mahara

Listen to portfolio stories

In our podcast 'Create. Share. Engage.' portfolio practitioners, researchers, learning designers, and portfolio authors share their journey. Learn how they navigate the many different facets of portfolios in general, and Mahara specifically.

Listen on the podcast website or in your favourite app

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Scott Gage - Member

Information Technologist from the University of South Australia, working as the main support staff for our instance of Mahara.

Joined: 2 March 2009 at 0:19

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Joined: 8 July 2014 at 12:19

seaghan moriarty - Member

Joined: 18 January 2011 at 13:37

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I support our Mahara users at the University of California, San Francisco.

Joined: 17 May 2011 at 11:48

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Joined: 29 April 2022 at 18:42

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