Mahara

Using Mahara, students and staff create their personal learning stories by uploading evidence of activities they have participated in, and embedding publicly accessible content they have previously put online. They can write reflections on their experiences that frame this evidence, map it to competencies or registration requirements, and provide necessary context.

Mahara is two things: an ePortfolio and a social networking system combined. An ePortfolio is a system in which students can record ‘evidence of lifelong learning’ – such as essays, artwork or other such things they produce that can be stored digitally. Such things are known as artefacts in Mahara. Social networking systems give a way for people to interact with their friends and create their own online communities.