Integrating Mahara

According to its web site (www.mahara.org), Mahara is an open source e-portfolio, weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities. Mahara is designed to provide users with the tools to demonstrate their life-long learning, skills, and development over time to selected audiences. It has recently become very popular in vocational and academic settings.

Mahoodle

Moodle and Mahara (nicknamed Mahoodle) can be easily integrated via the Moodle Network functions. A very good set up guide can be downloaded from docs.moodle.org/en/Mahoodle. We will only cover the basic networking-related settings required to establish a link between the two systems. More details can be found in the Mahara documentation or the dedicated Packt title, Mahara 1.4 Cookbook (www.packtpub.com/mahara-1-4-cookbook-for-training-education/book).

It is assumed that Moodle networking (authentication, role permissions, and so on) has been configured...