Why Federate Mahara

– Establish a shared Mahara instance• Researchers, alliances etc.

– Basis of framework for postgraduate access• Postgraduates could migrate their portfolios before

being issued with an account at a new campus

– As part of campus Single-Sign-On• Re-use IdP session

– ePortfolio for life• email for life, why not Mahara for life (alumni account)

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