20 September 2010, 14:30

I have created a Staff Institution and a Student Institution.

My thinking was I could create views in one institution but the other institution would not see it.

What ultimately is the purpose of Institutions?

Is the only way I can do this through groups?

Thanks,

chris

20 September 2010, 16:02

Hi Chris,
The purpose of institutions is for multi-tenanted Maharas - see www.myportfolio.school.nz as an example. The object is to have pan-institutional learning communities. Groups is the best way to create private groups.

cheers
Richard

14 October 2010, 20:22

Hello: I guess there is no way to create a multi-institution site where users in each institution don't have access to each other? (eg by using Search or by seeing who is in the site when they Share a view--either a group view or site view or their own view).  Why do this? From an administration point of view it would be much simpler than installing several instances of Mahara, one for each school. I need to manage several schools (institutions) but some schools may not want their students comingling with students from other schools. (I know, it's not the philosophy behind Mahara but unfortunately, it's the reality that many schools do not want students to interact with those outside their institution for a variety of reasons.)

Any ideas? Thanks.

17 October 2010, 20:11

Hi Miller,

If you search mahara.org for 'walled garden', you'll find that the feature you're asking for has been developed already by luns.net.uk (part of Lancaster University I think).  We haven't integrated this work into the core Mahara codebase yet, but it is available publicly.

26 October 2010, 4:40

Hi Miller

As Richard says, we (Lancaster University Network Services Limited) wrote a walled garden feature for Mahara 1.2. We're hoping that it will be included in 1.4.

The git branch is available on gitorious.org at http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/merge_requests/6

Andrew

15 December 2010, 6:43

Hi Richard/Andrew

Does the LUNS walled garden code work on Mahara version 1.3? Also any news yet on the likelihood of this being built into 1.4?

Many thanks

Peter

15 December 2010, 15:26

Hi Peter,

It's still on the 1.4 wishlist:

http://wiki.mahara.org/index.php?title=Roadmap/1.4/1.4_Wishlist

and we are hoping to get it done for 1.4. We'll do our best, but we can't promise it will be in there.

Cheers,

Francois

22 December 2010, 19:15

Hi Peter,

We're still hoping to get this into 1.4, but if you have a particular requirement/time pressure, we  (LUNS) can integrate this properly into 1.3.

The core team are hoping to get this into 1.4 but if there is dedicated funding to this task it will inevitably help the speed of implementation. 

cheers,

Dan