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Assessing Mahara portfolios in Moodle: Changes to the Mahara assignment plugin

Aaron Wells
Aaron Wells

This document summarizes changes to the Mahara assignment plugin for Moodle. It discusses how the plugin allows teachers to assign student portfolios created in Mahara and assess them within Moodle. The updated plugin features a nicer interface, better support for drafts and exceptions, the ability to work with Mahara collections and unlock specific pages, and upcoming archiving capabilities. Instructors can use the plugin to assign portfolio work in Mahara and provide feedback and grades to students directly through Moodle.

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Assessing Mahara portfolios in Moodle: Changes to the Mahara assignment plugin Presented by Aaron Wells, Catalyst IT // 3rd Oct 2014 Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0
Aaron Wells (Me) @AaronTheMad on Twitter
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Assessing Mahara portfolios in Moodle: Changes to the Mahara assignment plugin
Mahara: What the &$%# is it?
Mahara: the facts An open-source ePortfolio for education mahara: to think, thinking, thought Originated in 2006 as a collaboration between Massey, AUT, Open Poly, and Victoria Uni, with funding from the New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission Today the project is mostly managed by Catalyst IT
What the &$%# is an e-Portfolio? Mahara is a fully featured web application to build your electronic portfolio. You can create journals, upload files, embed social media resources from the web and collaborate with other users in groups.
My definition ePortfolio: (noun) A multi-user content management system.
Assessing Mahara portfolios in Moodle: Changes to the Mahara assignment plugin
Mahara's features in outline Users create Pages, i.e. webpages Managing, and creating the content that goes in those webpages: images, files, blogs, etc. Pages can be organized into Collections, i.e. mini-websites Social network functionality to let users collaborate and share content (all content is Private until shared) User groups with forums and shared content Comments & group submissions for feedback & assessment
What the &$%# is it good for? https://flic.kr/p/4L5DkD
Mahara + Moodle = Mahoodle logo by I単aki Arenaza (@iarenaza)
The magic of open source!
The 3 plugins of Mahoodle
As a student...
As a teacher...
Mahara assessment w/o Moodle
A proliferation of plugins... Catalyst 1.9 (mod/assignment) https://gitorious.org/mahara-contrib/mdl19-mod-assignment-type-mahara Catalyst 2.0 (mod/assignment) https://gitorious.org/mahara-contrib/mod-assignment-type-mahara Lancaster University (mod/assign) https://github.com/lucisgit/assignsubmission_mahara Portland University (mod/assign) https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=assignsubmission_mahara Catalyst merged plugin (mod/assign) https://github.com/catalyst/moodle-assignsubmission-mahara/tree/moodle26-merged
Synthesis! Nicer interface! Better support for drafts & exceptions Collections Unlocking pages Leap2A archiving (coming soon)
Your gateway to the Mahara ePortfolio: The Mahara community website: https://mahara.org The Mahara wiki: https://wiki.mahara.org The Mahara Launchpad project: http://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara (but it's usually easier to just link there from mahara.org)
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Assessing Mahara portfolios in Moodle: Changes to the Mahara assignment plugin

  • 1. Assessing Mahara portfolios in Moodle: Changes to the Mahara assignment plugin Presented by Aaron Wells, Catalyst IT // 3rd Oct 2014 Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0
  • 2. Aaron Wells (Me) @AaronTheMad on Twitter
  • 5. Mahara: What the &$%# is it?
  • 6. Mahara: the facts An open-source ePortfolio for education mahara: to think, thinking, thought Originated in 2006 as a collaboration between Massey, AUT, Open Poly, and Victoria Uni, with funding from the New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission Today the project is mostly managed by Catalyst IT
  • 7. What the &$%# is an e-Portfolio? Mahara is a fully featured web application to build your electronic portfolio. You can create journals, upload files, embed social media resources from the web and collaborate with other users in groups.
  • 8. My definition ePortfolio: (noun) A multi-user content management system.
  • 10. Mahara's features in outline Users create Pages, i.e. webpages Managing, and creating the content that goes in those webpages: images, files, blogs, etc. Pages can be organized into Collections, i.e. mini-websites Social network functionality to let users collaborate and share content (all content is Private until shared) User groups with forums and shared content Comments & group submissions for feedback & assessment
  • 11. What the &$%# is it good for? https://flic.kr/p/4L5DkD
  • 12. Mahara + Moodle = Mahoodle logo by I単aki Arenaza (@iarenaza)
  • 13. The magic of open source!
  • 14. The 3 plugins of Mahoodle
  • 18. A proliferation of plugins... Catalyst 1.9 (mod/assignment) https://gitorious.org/mahara-contrib/mdl19-mod-assignment-type-mahara Catalyst 2.0 (mod/assignment) https://gitorious.org/mahara-contrib/mod-assignment-type-mahara Lancaster University (mod/assign) https://github.com/lucisgit/assignsubmission_mahara Portland University (mod/assign) https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=assignsubmission_mahara Catalyst merged plugin (mod/assign) https://github.com/catalyst/moodle-assignsubmission-mahara/tree/moodle26-merged
  • 19. Synthesis! Nicer interface! Better support for drafts & exceptions Collections Unlocking pages Leap2A archiving (coming soon)
  • 20. Your gateway to the Mahara ePortfolio: The Mahara community website: https://mahara.org The Mahara wiki: https://wiki.mahara.org The Mahara Launchpad project: http://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara (but it's usually easier to just link there from mahara.org)