short mahara walkthrough

Enovation Solutions Ltd

The Friary, Bow Street, Dublin 7

www.enovation.ie

Gavin Henrick, Solutions Consultant

Presented at imoot 2010www.imoot.org #imoot2010

Mahara Background

Began mid 2006 as collaborative project between 4 Universities in NZ.

Since July 2007, Flexible Learning & Catalyst guide its future development

Designed to be learner centred, a personal learning environment

Modular Design Can be for one institution or many.

E-Portfolio...

“In New Zealand, we regard the LMS as being just one component of the VLE which is broader in scope. Moodle is very widely used in NZ and Mahara is designed to work alongside Moodle.”

- Richard Wyles, Mahara Project Leader

E-Portfolio...

“The approach we have taken with Mahara is for it to be entirely user-driven, a type of personal learning environment.”

- Richard Wyles, Mahara Project Leader

Mahara Features

Mahara has 3 strands or pillars of useProfile Management

• CV, BackgroundEvidence management

• Project and Assignment workSocial Networking

• Collaboration, Discussion, Group Work

PROFILE

RESUME

GOALS

SKILLS

FILES

BLOGS

VIEWS

EDIT VIEWS

VIEWS PERMISSIONS

VIEWS SUBMIT

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Social Networking Features

GroupsDifferent Types

• Membership• Open• Request• Controlled

InvitePublic Viewable?

FriendsControls

• Nobody• Authorisation• Automatic

Request with Message

GROUPS

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FRIENDS

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Mahara Roadmap

Mahara 1.3 onwardsImprovements to

• Blogs• Groups• Usability• Views• Resume

Enovation Solutions Ltd

The Friary, Bow Street, Dublin 7

www.enovation.ie

Thank You!Questions?

Contacts

Gavin Henrickgavin.henrick@enovation.ie

Skype: gavin.henrick

Enovation Solutionswww.enovation.ie