[Moodle] elearning portfolios in moodle

Thu Dec 4 21:04:12 EST 2008

This sounds brilliant...
and hosting it locally will also help with the cost effectiveness if I am not mistaken ;)

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From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Thu 4/12/2008 5:21 PM
To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Moodle] elearning portfolios in moodle

This is how easy it gets with Mahara and Moodle. 

When a student gets ready to upload an assignment, resource etc to Moodle then there is an option to also add the object to their Mahara ePortfolio. Their classes may come and go each year . but they get to keep and manage their ePortfolio throughout their life at the college with complete control over how they use, adapt and skin it.

It makes a lot of sense when you think about Moodle this way, rather than try to be all things to all people .. this is where you tie third party applications into it (supporting single sign-in etc.) Here is a cool 9 min video that will walk you this process and explain how Mahara works.
     http://au.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=2a3I5xj6k5s

All up, it just uses the same PHP and MySQL tools that Moodle uses and Kevork teaches in his cool text book. We are building our Mahara server next week and it will be fun. 

Regards Roland

2008/12/4 Ros Meadows <ros.meadows at gmail.com>

	Thanks Stephen, I have looked at mahara before (quite a while ago) but was not aware it could be used within moodle.
	I shall investigate and let you know how it goes.
	Cheers 
	Ros
	BentleighSC

	Stephen Digby wrote: 

		Suggest Mahara www.mahara.org <http://www.mahara.org/>  as it is open source development supported by the NZ government and able to be integrated into many LMS systems including moodle.

		They are all quite complicated.

		If you want something simpler, there is a moodle portfolio module that just lets students maintain editable text fields online (I use it to allow students to manage their goals and to extract some of their goals in bulk for insertion into our markbook reports

		Even simpler is to give students control of their own website within your network, allowing them a 'free form" eportfolio that is completely portable to a memory device when they leave school.

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		From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Ros Meadows
		Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2008 10:18 AM
		To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
		Subject: [Moodle] elearning portfolios in moodle

		Has anyone had any experience with  any of the elearning portfolio modules. 

		I searched "portfolio" and came up with 3 - Exabis, Simple and SPDC

		Has anyone used any of these, or does the blog work just as well?
		Any recommendations would be great

		Thanks
		RosM
		Bentleigh SC

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