Chapter 6. Course Groups and Other Roles in Mahara

So far, you have been looking at how you can use all the standard features of Mahara to put together your own eye-catching portfolio and work together with other Mahara users in groups. In this chapter, you are going to look at roles beyond that of a standard user.

In the first part of the chapter, you will look at institutions in Mahara and some of the things that an institution administrator can do.

In the second part, you will be exploring special course group roles, controlled groups, and the ability to submit pages to controlled and request groups for assessment.

In this chapter you will:

• Explore the options available to an institution administrator for managing members, including how to set up staff members in your institution

• Choose some settings for your institution

• As a staff member, find out how to set up a controlled group to which users can submit work for assessment

• Discover how to turn your group into a course group, using course...