Mahara+or+ePortfolios

=Mahara or e-Portfolio=

1.Background
Mahara is an open sourced e portfolio developed by New Zealand Tertiary institutions in conjuntion with the Ministry of Education. Mahara is a learner centred personal learning environment which is a "pluggable" modular e portfolio system. Mahara was developed along similar lines to moodle and can be added onto or plugged into moodle. The Ministry of Education has down loaded the Mahara programme and it is currently hosted on the Ministry of Education (Ministry) servers. CORE Education is currently contracted to manage the Ministry servers hosting Mahara. The Ministry is currently trialling a single sign on protocol for those schools using Moodle V 1.9 or higher.

2. Accessibility
2.1 To access and use the Mahara program on the Ministry servers written permission is required from the Manager - Innovations, e-learning section or his/her nominee. email: eddie.reisch@minedu.govt.nz

2.2 If you are utilising the Ministry moodle LMS server and wish to have Mahara added to or plugged into your LMS you require written authorisation from the Manager - Innovations or his/her nominee (see contact details above). The technical cost will be meet by the Ministry.

2.3 If you wish to have Mahara added to or plugged into your independently hosted Moodle LMS or other property LMS you require written authorisation from the Manager - Innovations or his/her nominee. The cost of adding Mahara to your LMS must be met by you.

2.4 Access to the Mahara service will be for 24 months, with a 12 month review. at the conclusion of the 24 months the cluster will be requested to migrate their Mahara data to a server of their choice.

3. Server Capacity
31 Each cluster will be allocated five (5) gigabytes.

3.2 If the data cap is exceeded the cluster will be invoiced for the increased hosting charges.