29 September 2009, 0:45

Hi,

We want to start using Mahoodle at our school.

1. Can anyone tell me if it is ready to use for e-portfolios

2. Can you update 1.1.6 to the new 1.2 when it is released later 

3.  If a student has a photoin their profile in Moodle will it also work in Mahara (this was problem i seen with the previous version)

4 Is there any timeline for the release of 1.2

Thank you for the support.

Mahara 

29 September 2009, 18:11

Hiya,

1. That depends on your definition of "ready to use" . And also, for what purpose you want the portfolio to be for. Mahara is designed to be a reflective, student-centred portfolio, where the students are in control of their information - and as such, many schools, universities and other institutions are using it this way . The Moodle side of Mahoodle takes care of all the formal learning, while the Mahara side gives the students a space that is theirs, a place to reflect and something that can they can control.
2. Yes, absolutely. We fully support upgrades from one stable version to another. We make a point of making sure it will work, in fact.
3. I think I remember the bug report, it might have been fixed recently. If it doesn't work, let us know - maybe there is another bug in that case.
4. I'm hoping, in the next few weeks. I have to finish off View import for the LEAP2A import/export support. I'm getting there slowly but surely 

 

30 September 2009, 3:14

Hi,
Thanks for getting back to me,
I installed Mahara and linked it to Moodle.
But I am still getting failed login to mahara, once I attach a photo to my moodle profile.

Before I add a photo it will allow me to loin to Mahara, but after that it shuts me out.

Please have a look at this bug as it is an essential part of the integration.

Thanks again for the support

Patrick J Phillips
DP ITGS / MYP Technology
 
International School HCMC
An Phu, District 2, HCMC
Viet Nam
Tel: (848) 38989100
Fax: (848) 38874022
 
[email protected]
http://www.ishcmc.com

30 September 2009, 3:59

Hi Patrick,

i know about many institutions that have done an mahoodle combo. This shows that the integration is ok. I don´t know why there are problems in your special case.

Nigel and the other core developers do an excellent job and will fix any bugs ;-)

Heinz 

 

30 September 2009, 19:08

Hi - what versions of Moodle and Mahara do you have? I presume you have Mahara 1.1.6, but what about the Moodle?

Aha, I found the bug report:  https://eduforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3317&group_id=176&atid=739

Are you on windows hosting? 

30 September 2009, 21:17

Hi,

Yes we run it on windows server.

Mahara 1.1.6

Moodle 1.9.5

It would be excellent if we can find a solution.

thanks for looking into this

Patrick

30 September 2009, 22:51

All that needs to happen is the code that naively tries to write the profile icon to /tmp/ should write it to wherever we know we can write files.. it can't be that hard for us to fix. Hopefully we can do it before 1.2 

03 November 2009, 3:19

Hi Nigel

I am back onto trying to get Mahoodle working in our school,

please can you tell me if the problem mentioned in this chat has been resolve.

I really would like to show off the mahara to my school soon.

Thanks

(it can't be that hard for us to fix. Hopefully we can do it before 1.2 )

04 November 2009, 1:41

almost - I've committed a fix to Moodle 1.9Stable that allows the integration to work on a windows server, but I haven't quite made the change to Mahara yet. I keep getting distracted with other jobs!  - I'll try to post here when I've finally got the change sorted in Mahara.

*edit* - oops, I saw you were trying to run the mahoodle on a windows server and assumed you were having issues with the initial config - but I've just looked at the link Nigel posted to the tracker issue and notice it's something different! - looks like nigel has fixed that already - have you tried with the latest version of Mahara?

04 November 2009, 17:25

Yes, this issue has been resolved in Mahara 1.1.7 (and on master, so in 1.2 also).