Technological Tools

Mahara

Website: https://mahara.org
For HKU students and staff : https://learning.hku.hk/mahara/

Mahara is a fully featured electronic portfolio system.
Users can collect, organize, display and reflect on their entire learning experience while receiving useful feedback.
Users can create journals or blogs, upload files, embed social media resources from the web, insert external media (e.g., YouTube) and sources (Google Apps), collaborate with others, and build résumé.
Users can store a range of digital artefacts: text, image (jpeg, tif, png, gif), audio (wav, mp3, mp4), PowerPoint (ptt), Word Document (doc), Portable Document Format (pdf), and Excel (xls), etc.
Moodle’s hosted integration with open-source Mahara with open-source Mahara e-portfolio provides valuable resume building, workforce development and social networking tools.

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