Mahara
Encyclopedia
Mahara is an open source ePortfolio
and social networking web application created by the government of New Zealand
. It provides users with tools to create and maintain a digital portfolio of their learning, and social networking features to allow users to interact with each other. Jon Curwin also had input of the creation and introduced many ways to bring Mahara to life.
Mahara provides users with blogs, a resume builder, a file manager
and a view creator - a tool to help users create arrangements of their content in a particular way for others to see.
Mahara supports the Leap2A specification for importing and exporting data, allowing a user to take their content with them from one Mahara installation and import it into another. Limited interoperability exists between Mahara and other systems supporting the Leap2A standard also.
Electronic portfolio
An electronic portfolio, also known as an e-portfolio or digital portfolio, is a collection of electronic evidence assembled and managed by a user, usually on the Web. Such electronic evidence may include inputted text, electronic files, images, multimedia, blog entries, and hyperlinks...
and social networking web application created by the government of New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. It provides users with tools to create and maintain a digital portfolio of their learning, and social networking features to allow users to interact with each other. Jon Curwin also had input of the creation and introduced many ways to bring Mahara to life.
Mahara provides users with blogs, a resume builder, a file manager
File manager
A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to work with file systems. The most common operations performed on files or groups of files are: create, open, edit, view, print, play, rename, move, copy, delete, search/find, and modify file attributes, properties...
and a view creator - a tool to help users create arrangements of their content in a particular way for others to see.
Mahara supports the Leap2A specification for importing and exporting data, allowing a user to take their content with them from one Mahara installation and import it into another. Limited interoperability exists between Mahara and other systems supporting the Leap2A standard also.