Presentation at the SUNY CIT 2010 conference in Plattsburgh

1. Electronic Portfolios in Moodle
and Mahara
Keith Landa
Puchase College SUNY
keith.landa@purchase.edu

2. Agenda
E-portfolio overview
Purchase College Moodle and Mahara
Example portfolios
Moodle and Mahara hosting options
Assignments in Moodle for portfolios
Working with Mahara
Workshop goal: provide you
experience working with Moodle
and Mahara for course portfolios,
with accounts you can explore
beyond the workshop

3. What are we talking about?
Tools for students to
showcase their work
Tools to support
student learning
Collect, Select, Reflect
Tools for institutional
List of products and services that can be used to data collection
support portfolio activity

4. Why e-portfolios?
Focus on student- Advances in digital
centered active communication and
learning creation technologies
Accountability and Student employment
assessment issues issues

5. Integration
Focus on teaching & learning - Other systems
- Robust set of activities & resources - Web 2.0 world
- Add-on modules from the community
- Moodle development pathway
Community
http://moodle.org Why Moodle @
Purchase?
Costs
Flexible open architecture - No licensing costs
- Similar support costs
Risk management
- Risks of open source
- Commercial products have different risks

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

8. 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.

9. Grading view of the assignment
Quick grading view - access to student files and reflections,
feedback and grade assignment, tie to Moodle gradebook

10. Student wiki portfolios in Moodle
Moodle Wiki activity allows student 'wikis' - individual web
space where each student can create pages within course

11. Some options for free hosting
Sign up: https://www.keytoschool.com/member/signup.
php

12. Mahara at Purchase, extending Moodle
Slower adoption so far, need to develop an eportfolio culture
Moodle as core, integrate other tools into it

13. Mahara overview
Collect, select, reflect and share (access control)
Resume building Social networking

14. Mahara profiles
All information private until it's shared in a specific view
Students own their information

15. Mahara resume tools
Contact info, employment/education history, certifications,
awards, publications, memberships - all granular information

16. Building and sharing a portfolio
Assembling artifacts
File uploads
Blog reflections
External materials (web video, RSS feeds, etc)
Creating a view
Determining the layout
Assembling and arranging portfolio components
Determining access controls
Share with individual user (e.g., instructor)
Make public, generate unique URL
Share with group (e.g., course group)
Submit to a course group (freezes portfolio view)
Creating templates

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

18. Blogs - support for reflection
Can add whole blogs, recent posts or individual posts to
portfolio views

19. Creating views: layout
Categories of building blocks for your portfolio views
Drag and drop into columns
Controls over number and widths of columns

20. Creating views: basic description

21. Creating views: access control
Individuals, groups, course groups, public, url-based access
Timed access control

22. Mahara accounts (a couple of sites I've found so far....)
http://www.foliospaces.com/
50 MB quota for files
No course submission
http://myportfolio.ac.nz/
For consortium of NZ universities
Sign up with "Demo" institution
1 GB quota for files