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.

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.

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Plugins for Mahara 1.4

Geoff Rowland

Posts: 108

21 May 2011, 10:57

I have just tested and, if necessary, updated some recently released plugins with the Mahara 1.4 release candidate. The following notes may be of use to others testing/developing for 1.4

Freemind Flash plugin - No change required for 1.4

Jmol NIH and Chem 2D NIH plugins - each needed a minor tweak to allow for new menus in 1.4. Checks for the Mahara release to be backwards compatible with 1.3 (and 1.2)

For the lib.php of eachplugin, get_catgories() was updated to:

    public static function get_categories() {
        //Check Mahara release and change menu for Mahara 1.4
        require_once(get_config('libroot') . 'version.php');
        $release = $config->release;
        if ($release < 1.4) {
            return array('feeds');
        }
        return array('external');
    }

The CPD plugin needed a few more changes to fit with the new menus. So, I have set up separate branches on Github. 1.3_STABLE for 1.3 (and 1.2) and master for 1.4