Mahara

Mahara at Conferences

Mon, 01/11/2010 - 16:50

2009

ULCC: Mahara UK'09 - "Innovation with e-Portfolios" and Presentations page and Keynote videos

INTEL Symposium 2009: Workshop Mahara e-Portfolio by Heinz Krettek (eWIEsion, Germany)

First established in mid 2006, the Mahara project started as collaborative venture funded by New Zealand's Tertiary Education Commission's e-learning Collaborative Development Fund (eCDF), involving Massey University, Auckland University of Technology, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, and Victoria University of Wellington.

Background

Thu, 10/15/2009 - 08:32

Background to Mahara

Awards and Reviews

Wed, 10/14/2009 - 12:23

NZ Open Source award 2008

Winner NZ Open Source Awards category for 'open source use in education'

Learning impact silver award

Silver award recipient Learning Impact 208

Moodle portfolio options

Mahara Features

Tue, 10/13/2009 - 16:02

Introduction to eportfolios

Mahara is used to create eportfolios - to see what eportfolios can be used for see the following videos.

Video eportfolios at Solent University (2:33 mins)

eportfolios for starters (3:04 mins)

To try out mahara go to the Mahara demo site.

Case studies

Mon, 10/12/2009 - 09:56

Examples of uses of Mahara

For Teachers

This example shows assessment against standards, use of view template that can be copied by students, links to files organised into folders, links to supporting mulitimedia content.

Other features that teachers are using include

Developer Resources

Sat, 10/10/2009 - 16:32

Developer Area

1. Developer Documentation
2. Useful Resources

Here is a bunch of developer documentation for Maha

Developers - How to Contribute Code

Sat, 10/10/2009 - 16:26

Source http://wiki.mahara.org/Developer_Area/Contributing_Code

This document outlines the steps you will need to take should you want to contribute code to Mahara. These steps are not about making submitting code harder for the sake of it - they're all about making sure that it's both easy, and legal, for us to accept your changes.

Support

Fri, 10/09/2009 - 16:43

System Administators

This section is targeted at people who want to install, upgrade and generally manage a Mahara installation. While the person who does this might be the same person as the site administrator, information about the day to day use and administration of a Mahara install is in a separate user guide.

Mahara hosting, training and development services

Thu, 10/08/2009 - 16:30

There is a worldwide network of approved mahara partners that can help you implement a eportfolio solution and offer a wide range of related services.

Lead Developers - Catalyst IT

Thu, 10/08/2009 - 14:08

Catalyst IT provides core development, maintenance and quality assurance services to the Mahara project. Catalyst is one of the world’s largest open source specialist companies. We offer Mahara development, installation, integration and hosting with 24x7 support services. Catalyst is also an official Moodle Partner, developed the Eduforge platform and has a wide range of capabilities and experience in open source technologies.
For further information please contact Mike O'Connor