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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Security issue relating to session fixation in PHP 5.3, <15.04.7, <15.10.3

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Aaron Wells

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03 May 2016, 13:22

Changes to Mahara's session management in 15.04.0, when Mahara is running on PHP version 5.3, were can sometimes cause two users on separate computers to be served the same session ID. This results in one user being "logged in" as the other user, with all that user's permissions and access. This situation can occur when a user takes an action that forces another user to be logged out of Mahara, such as an admin changing another user's account settings.

Category: Sessions
Severity: High
Versions affected: <15.04.7, <15.10.3, running PHP 5.3
Reported by: Aaron Wells
Bug reports: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1570744

CVE reference: 2017-1000152

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Kristina Hoeppner - 07 November 2017, 13:03

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