A question that some of my students ask me very often is, why should they start creating an ePortfolio? Grade 9th students are introduced in my School to collect evidences of their achievements and competencies and grab them in a personal account in the School ePortfolio. After filling up the usual profile fields they are …
Tomorrow night will be the due date for my students to submit a Lab Report created in Mahara. I told them that I was not going to accept reports modified after the due date but I hadn’t realized that Mahara pages don’t show last update information so I had to hack the code to get …
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Today I upgraded our Mahara site from version 1.7.2 to 1.8.1 (current version). What it was expected to be an easy procedure turned out to a trouble due to a database (MySQL) collation issue. Below are the details: After doing all backups as it’s required I downloaded and unzip the new version to perform the …
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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 …