The Mahara ePortfolio is a personal online space for students to store and share stuff. You can upload pretty much anything you've seen on the web - documents, photos, videos, and html pages. It includes your own blog and you can message your friends' spaces too!
Each student controls who sees his or her pages.
1 You can keep everything private, share what you want to share with only the groups you choose (like photos with friends or assignments with teachers), or allow the whole world to see your stuff. It's kind of a cross between Facebook and an electronic 3-ring binder...
You can use Mahara just to store your stuff or you can get creative - use it to show your resume if you're looking for a summer job. Upload your homework assignments and send your teachers links to your work. Use it for group projects where you need to share things with classmates. Applying to colleges? Use Mahara to show them examples of your best work!
It's pretty easy to use and there are several video's
here which will help get you started if you like. (Any student or teacher enrolled in any course on this site should be able to see the videos, as long as they are logged in.)
Best of all, your stuff will stay on Mahara as long as you want it there.
2 It won't automatically disappear when your class ends, so you can keep building your store of stuff throughout your career and have examples of your work you can use to show people - like guidance counselors, admissions officers, potential employers - just how good you are!
So click on the word "Mahara" where you see it in the block on the lower right corner of this page and start using Mahara today!
1Keep in mind that nothing you put on the Internet is completely safe from determined prying eyes. Also, the Mahara administrator can see your stuff, so try not to put anything in your space that might embarrass him...or you.
2If you don't use your space for six months or more, it may be considered to be abandoned and may be removed by the administrator. ALWAYS keep backups of anything you value! We cannot be responsible for lost stuff!
