Help area created by Moodle team at Forth Valley College using Mahara pages and collections.

1. Mahara help area for users
at Forth Valley College
Friday 5th July 2013
Mahara UK, Birmingham
Jasmin Hodge

2. Today's Session
•Rebranding of FVC’s Mahara
•Introduce ePortfolio to learners at induction stage
•Provide independent Learning Pathways
•Use your idea to create a template
•The Impact!

3. Group Activity
Using the details provided, log onto:
http://moodle.forthvalley.ac.uk/mahara

4. The Impact!
• Mahara embedded within learning and teaching across all
subject areas;
• Mahara used as a tool to promote and enhance business
across all services.
“ePortfolios are learners own stories of
what they know”

5. Working with Templates
The process for setting up a template is:
1.Create a ‘page’ in your Portfolio menu>pages area that you
would like to act as the template, then once your page is
finished;
1.Allow copying by clicking into Portfolio menu>share and
clicking on the edit access icon (KEY) for sharing options.
You will tick the box to allow
sharing as shown.

6. Don’t leave me behind!
Something that we have spent our precious time on is
worthwhile, but only if there is a purpose for doing it…...
Mahara ePortfolio’s are sustainable, they can be joined to the hip
of learners throughout their whole journey. Leaving College and
taking their ePortfolio to Uni, or to potential employees for a post
in their career they have chosen and as they continue to learn,
their ePortfolio can securely keep the ‘digital diary’.
Joint Activity
Using the information within FVC’s help area, export your
Template to take home.

7. Thank you.
Jasmin Hodge
Organisational Learning Co-ordinator
http://about.me/jasminhodge
“Knowing about things……Knowing yourself”
With thanks to Dawn Corley for quotes