Report over group participation
The participation report available in groups allows you to see how users interact with each other in terms of giving feedback on each other's pages.
Open Badges
Mahara has two plugins available for Open Badges:
- Open Badge Displayer
This plugin allows you to display your Open Badges from the Mozilla Backpack (and now also the Open Badge Passport) in your portfolios. - Open Badge Factory
This plugin makes it possible to issue badges from the Open Badge Factory within Mahara groups.
Create a template
Anybody can create templates by simply setting up pages / collections that others are allowed to copy. When you create a template, take into consideration:
- For whom do you create the template?
If you create a template for a small group of people, you could create it in your account. Otherwise, setting up a template on the institution level or in a dedicated template account might be a better idea. - What components should the template contain?
How prescriptive do you want to be? Shall your learners have the freedom to change the template? - Shall users receive the template when they log in for the first time?
If so, you can set it up as institution template as you can make it available to all new institution users.
Annotate a page
Page annotations are a feature within the wider "SmartEvidence" functionality that we are working on for Mahara. It allows to create an artefact which can then be migrated to SmartEvidence functionality in the future.
Copy a portfolio
You can copy a portfolio very easily by simply clicking the "Copy" button on the page when you see it. If you are viewing a collection, you can decide whether to copy the collection or just the page.
Change block background
Sometimes it is handy to quickly change the background of a block in order to highlight it for:
- instructions
- notices
While the background shouldn't be used too much ;-) it is an easy way to make a block of text stand out more.
Example of a block with background
[some text]
</div>
[some text]
</div>
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