Mahara tutorial for pupils
Have spent the morning creating a simple(ish) tutorial, showing the basics of Mahara. Have used wink, because it is easy to use. Still not 100% happy with result, but think it will suffice for now. Found out a few interesting things whilst making the tutorial. The main one being that you need to be careful in the type of group you create. The one I created for the iMedia course was open access. This meant that anyone who joined the group had the ability to edit and delete the views I had created….ouch. So have now changed it so that I have to add the users to the group. This gives me to great features:
1. The students can only ‘view’ the content
2. They can submit their own views to the group for assessment.
The second option is great, although I now have to work out how work will be assessed. Do I continue to use moodle or change to mahara? I think I am more likely to stick with moodle for assessing key components of their coursework and get them (students) to submit ‘views’ of completed pieces of coursework. This work would be the final piece of work, after it had been assessed in moodle. Students would also be able to showcase key pieces of work as well.
The tutorial