Mahara Training Planning

Course Description
This course is intended for academic staff who wish to use Mahara as a teaching tool with their classes. Mahara is an open-source ePortfolio system and is widely used in colleges and universities throughout the world. Mahara enables students to maintain reflective blogs on their learning, work experience or practice and to populate the associated web pages with samples of their work in a number of formats. Students can give peers or tutors access to their ePortfolios and allow comments if required.

This course is based on Mahara version 1.10.7 and will deal with the process of setting up a virtual exhibition in Mahara, both from the tutor's and the students' points of view.

Target Audience
Tutors wishing to use Mahara to create a virtual exhibition. A basic knowledge of Mahara would be beneficial but not mandatory.

Required Resources
Access to a Mahara site. There are a number of free Mahara sites available if tutors do not have access to an institutional site. These include www.portfoliocommunities.com, www.foliofor.me, demo.mahara.org amongst others.

Topics

 * creating a group
 * uploading files to Mahara
 * creating a page
 * entering profile details
 * entering resume details
 * displaying additional blocks on a page
 * creating a collection of pages
 * giving access to a page
 * secret URL
 * linking student pages to a group