What is a course group?

We covered standard Mahara groups extensively in Chapter 5 of this book. There is, though, another type of group within Mahara, which can only be set up by Mahara Administrators (either Site Administrators or Institution Administrators) and/or by Mahara Staff Members. These groups allow for more formalized assessment processes and are known in Mahara as Course Groups.

There are two types of Staff Members within Mahara—Site Staff Members and Institutional Staff Members. We have seen so far in this chapter how we can set up an Institutional Staff Member, but there is absolutely no difference between the Institutional and Site Staff Member types.

The Mahara site itself (before any institutions are set up) is probably best thought of as an institution in its own right. In fact, the Mahara system refers to the Site Level institution as "No Institution". This "No Institution" is (counter-intuitively) a Mahara institution itself. No Institution is the name given to...