Mahara

I came across Mahara e-Portfolio software, found at http://mahara.org/, shortly after it was released about five years ago. At the time, the software seemed to have some potential for online learning, but it wasn’t yet suited to the needs of my students. In the last years, however, the software has come along considerably and my teaching focus has turned towards the trend of competency-based training. Both of these trends have made Mahara a possible choice for my online teaching endeavours. I have installed this open source software on one of my servers and have trialled it for some student projects. Mahara also apparently fully integrates with my Learning Management System (LMS) of choice, Moodle (http://moodle.org), so it looks like I will be developing some student and client projects in this software.

If you are in competency-based training and you want server-based open source software where students can upload, discuss and have their work accessed online, then you must check out Mahara open source e-portfolio software for yourself.