Less learner-driven aspects of Mahara
Mahara is, quite rightly, set up as a learner-driven community site. It is important for us to see a Mahara site as a space where learners with their own personalized learning materials can choose whether to allow access to them, or not. The learner can also choose whether or not to interact with other site users with reference to the materials they create.
However, this does not mean that there is no useful role for an administrator or tutor in such an environment. Here are some of the things that a tutor might want to do in an ePortfolio system:
Monitor their learners' work and get ready to feedback on it
Decide who's in and who's out of particular areas of the site (such as institutions or groups)
Scaffold learners' work by creating templates, which they can work from and go on to extend creatively
Have work submitted to them for formal assessment
Allow others, such as teaching assistants, inspectors, or verifiers, to access pages that have been submitted...
