Mahara, WordPress or GoogleApps? What’s the best choice for a School ePortfolio?

My School is planning for the next course to perform an experiment based on the use of ePortfolios. In the Spanish Educational System exists in grade 7th a subject called ‘Proyecto interdisciplinar‘ literally translated into English as ‘Interdisciplinary Project’ and commonly known as PI. The School plan for this one-hour-a-week subject is to introduce students in the …

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Embedding presentations from Google Drive into Mahara ePortfolio

I’ve recently discovered that Mahara ePortfolio v 1.6.3 didn’t display by default Google Drive Presentations embedded in pages. I had tested the Mahara external content plugin for Google Apps, and it worked flawlessly when I embedded Google Maps and Docs. The exception came out when we tried to do the same ritual for embedding Google …

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Upgrading from Mahara 1.5.2 to 1.6.3

Today we upgrade our Mahara e-portfolio from v1..5.2 to 1.6.3. We have also changed the theme to ‘Primary School Theme‘ because some students told us it was more attractive and cool to them. Our students at Colegio Apostol Santiago are logging to Mahara from Moodle through Mnet. Currently we are running three Moodle instances: one …

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