24 February 2010, 7:22

Hello,

I have been testing the exporting-importing pluggin. I thought that normal users could import their views or any elements of their portfolio. Jus in the same way that their is a "Export" tag in MyPortolio, there would be an "Import" tag in which the  learner can import the zip file.

Would Mahara 1,3 implement this?

Regards

Mari

07 March 2010, 8:05

Hi Mari Cruz,

I was 'surprised' by this too, because I remembered (from Nigel's video) that users could import their own portfolios. But it seems this was only available while the feature was being developed (to ease the testing process I suppose). Now only the admins (and maybe the institution admins too? I havent' checked) are able to import portfolios into the system.

I don't know if this is desirable or not, but from my little experience with other portfolio systems this seems to be inline with what others do.

Saludos,
Iñaki.

08 March 2010, 4:42

Hello all,

Effectively in version 1.2 only Admin can import an import e-porfolio XML files when a new user is created.

I understand the need to control eventually and avoid portfoliospamming in not letting the users do that by their own.

But in the sense of students' ownership of their learning, I also would appreciate having an option to permit or forbid users to import a previous view in their e-porfolio.

Maybe a request for version 1.3, we have to ask Richard about that.

-dajan

08 March 2010, 14:16

Hi all,

yes, now I remember that there was this option for the admin... so I exported a view as LEAP ,got a zip, created a new user , uploaded it... BUT... here is what the system keeps telling me: and it definitely IS a zip file!

Any idea?

Sigi

08 March 2010, 23:51

It's another recent bug I'm afraid:

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/514069

I think the main reason users are unable to import their own portfolios is just that we didn't have time to implement that feature -- we thought it was better to have the admin-only import released than to delay the 1.2 release even longer.  The import is quite a bit easier when creating a new user, because there is no possibility of conflicts between the existing user's artefacts and the ones in the import file.  But we might still add the feature in a future version of Mahara.