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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06 June 2011, 7:13

My colleague Teo and I are students on placement in DELTA at the Robert Gordon University and have been providing support to staff and students in using Mahara for the past 7 months. We felt it would be useful to provide some feedback from our experience.

The feedback is based on the 1.4 beta version as well as our personal experience with users and the suggestions that we have received from students for improving consistency of navigation and layout across the whole application.

It is worth noting that we have used Mahara both as students, but also delivered training to other students as part of our placement. We have produced extensive training material to support users and plan to add to that in the future. We have enjoyed using Mahara would like to input into future developments through the community site.

Daniel Stuart and Teo Benea