Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
CPD is an essential element of many learning programs. It is the practice of keeping tabs on your skills and how they have improved over the course of time.
As you've seen, Mahara is already great for CPD — you can write journals logging your progress and display them in pages. You can also plan your actions using plans.
Sometimes, however, when monitoring CPD, it's necessary to have the ability to log more specific information related to the activity undertaken, for example the location of a CPD activity and the time spent on it. Some courses, for example, require you to demonstrate a specific number of hours of CPD before you can complete them.
Fortunately, the CPD Mahara artefact allows you to do just that. Built in a similar way to plans, it allows users to log their own CPD activities, and group these into lists for easy management. You may, for example, have a group of CPD activities for each course undertaken or for each personal area of interest...
