Mahara and Moodle: A match made for learners | Moodle Academy

Moodle, the beloved learning management system, allows for the integration with other tools to offer educators and learners even more flexibility in how they would like to learn. Portfolios are a wonderful addition to Moodle because they put learners into the centre of the attention and allow them the freedom to decide how they want to document their learning and what of that learning and the associated reflections they want to share.

In this session, we are joined by Kristina Hoeppner, the Mahara Project Lead at Catalyst IT.

During the session, Kristina:

Provides a brief introduction on different types of portfolios and their benefits to learners.
Explores portfolio examples.
Showcases the possibilities that integrating the portfolio platform Mahara with Moodle has for educators who wish to create authentic learning tasks, and for learners who want a space of their own to reflect on their practice.
Provides an outlook on the plans for Mahara for the coming years.

The following resources will help you either start your portfolio journey or review your existing implementation:

Mahara website: https://mahara.org

Mahara assignment submission plugin: https://github.com/catalyst/moodle-as...
(in the process of being checked for Moodle 4.5) and blog post: https://www.catalyst.net.nz/stories-a...

Examples:
Dublin City University mentorship: https://reflect.dcu.ie/view/view.php?...
DCU power of purpose: https://reflect.dcu.ie/view/view.php?...
University of the Arts London hope: https://massimiliano-parry.workflow.a...
UAL studio session: https://lou-lassailly.workflow.arts.a...
CMALT portfolio: www.foliospaces.org/view/view.php?t=fdb9EDGr6VRcPJtMa7Li
Mahara roadmap:    • Mahara roadmap: What are we discussing?  
Mahara 25.04 feature webinars: https://events.humanitix.com/new-feat...
Podcast 'Create. Share. Engage.' https://podcast.mahara.org
Subscribe to the newsletter: https://zcu.nz/L3Bb

Other free resources:
AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolios: https://aaeebl.org/digital-ethics-pri...
Field guide to ePortfolio: https://aaeebl.org/2021/11/06/field-g...
DCU best practice exemplars: https://read.bookcreator.com/czHiWg1m...
ePortfolio based assessment: https://read.bookcreator.com/czHiWg1m...
Learning portfolio: https://www.dcu.ie/sites/default/file...

Contact details:
Email: [email protected]
Mastodon: https://cloudisland.nz/@anitsirk
LinkedIn:   / khoeppner  
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/4nitsirk.bsk...