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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 547891 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/547891

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 547891
   Invite people from outside network.

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Status in Mahara ePortfolio: Confirmed

Bug description:
If you read Attwell and others who are advocating eportfolio use, you will find that an eportfolio should belong to the students and that they should have access to this throughout their lifetime.  Being able to create specific views for different purposes is critical to the success of this approach.  Mahara is on the right track in this regard, however, there needs to more flexibility in terms of how those views can be shared.

My preference would be for instances of Mahara to be hosted by independent companies/institutions that provide low cost accounts for anyone who wishes to have an eportfolio.  In this case the school/university/business could subsidise this cost for the period of time the student/employee is with the organisation, so there is an opportunity for the individual to keep and add to their work when they leave.

To this end, I would like to see the capability of inviting audiences, by email, to see a view of your portfolio by registering as free guest in the Mahara instance.  This way the need to provide public views and secret URLs would be removed and a public view would then only be used for a wider audience when the portfolio owner required this to happen.
By bringing people to Mahara in a guest capacity you expose more people to Mahara and and keep the intimacy that is often required for specific purposes--not everyone wants a particular view to be publicly available to those not in the community.

Keep up the excellent work,

Scot.






This bug was imported from eduforge.org, see:
https://eduforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3116&group_id=176&atid=742