E portfolios in Moodle and Mahara

Electronic Portfolios in Moodle and Mahara

Keith LandaPuchase College SUNY

keith.landa@purchase.edu

Agenda

E-portfolio overviewPurchase College Moodle and MaharaExample portfoliosMoodle and Mahara hosting optionsAssignments in Moodle for portfoliosWorking with Mahara

Workshop goal: provide you experience working with Moodle and Mahara for course portfolios, with accounts you can explore beyond the workshop

What are we talking about?

Tools for students to showcase their work

Tools to support student learning

Tools for institutional data collection

Collect, Select, Reflect

List of products and services that can be used to support portfolio activity

Why e-portfolios?

Focus on student-centered active

learning

Advances in digital communication and

creation technologies

Accountability and assessment issues

Student employment issues

Why Moodle @ Purchase?

Focus on teaching & learning- Robust set of activities & resources- Add-on modules from the community- Moodle development pathway

Costs- No licensing costs- Similar support costs

Risk management- Risks of open source- Commercial products have different risks

Integration- Other systems- Web 2.0 world

Flexible open architecture

Communityhttp://moodle.org

Portfolios through Moodle assignments

My demo Moodle site at KeyToSchool:http://arphia.edumoot.com/"Portfolios in Moodle" course

Advanced Uploading of Files

Students can add multiple files, including delete and replace as needed to collect/select material that best represents their work. The Notes allows reflection about the material.

Grading view of the assignment

Quick grading view - access to student files and reflections, feedback and grade assignment, tie to Moodle gradebook

Student wiki portfolios in Moodle

Moodle Wiki activity allows student 'wikis' - individual web space where each student can create pages within course

Some options for free hosting

Sign up: https://www.keytoschool.com/member/signup.php

Mahara at Purchase, extending Moodle

Slower adoption so far, need to develop an eportfolio cultureMoodle as core, integrate other tools into it

Mahara overviewCollect, select, reflect and share (access control)

Resume building Social networking

Mahara profiles

All information private until it's shared in a specific viewStudents own their information

Mahara resume tools

Contact info, employment/education history, certifications, awards, publications, memberships - all granular information

Building and sharing a portfolio

Assembling artifactsFile uploadsBlog reflectionsExternal materials (web video, RSS feeds, etc)

Creating a viewDetermining the layoutAssembling and arranging portfolio components

Determining access controlsShare with individual user (e.g., instructor)Make public, generate unique URLShare with group (e.g., course group)Submit to a course group (freezes portfolio view)Creating templates

Managing files

Can display files or folders in portfoliosFile and folder descriptions during upload/editing can be useful for when materials are incorporated into portfolio views

Blogs - support for reflection

Can add whole blogs, recent posts or individual posts to portfolio views

Creating views: layout

Categories of building blocks for your portfolio viewsDrag and drop into columnsControls over number and widths of columns

Creating views: basic description

Creating views: access control

Individuals, groups, course groups, public, url-based accessTimed access control

Mahara accounts (a couple of sites I've found so far....)

http://www.foliospaces.com/

50 MB quota for filesNo course submission

http://myportfolio.ac.nz/

For consortium of NZ universitiesSign up with "Demo" institution1 GB quota for files