What is an institution?
An Institution is a sub-division of a Mahara site, which can have its own administrators. The three main advantages of using Institutions are:
Rather than having a number of separate Mahara installations, a consortium of different institutions can share a common user base on a single Mahara site. This allows users to network with others across institutional boundaries.
A Mahara Site Administrator can devolve much of the responsibility for user management to Institutional Administrators.
Each institution can be given its own theme.
For example, a group of schools working together in a local area may wish to share a single Mahara installation. This may be because students naturally migrate from one school to another but want to retain continuity in their lifelong learning. It may be because a teacher of a particular subject teaches learners from a variety of schools. Finally, it could be that the schools have seen the advantage of encouraging common interest groups across...
