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Message #07367
[Bug 722497] Re: Place non-author content, e.g. merit badges, on a page
I think that Mahara Outcomes artefact from Moodle Assignment Mahara type
is something like that, does'nt it ?
Each time an outcome is evaluated in Moodle's assigment Mahara Type by a teacher, this outcome is exported to Mahara in the Content / Outcomes artifact.
Student can't edit it. Just view it.
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Title:
Place non-author content, e.g. merit badges, on a page
Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
Triaged
Bug description:
On MyPortfolio we had the enquiry about having merit badges displayed
on a student's page / profile. As these should not be tampered with by
the student, the enquiry / wishlist item is similar to bug 722495 as
it boils down to giving somebody else besides the page owner some
control over artefacts placed on a page.
My suggestion for a solution that is open for discussion:
Thank you for your suggestion with the Merit Badges. I think they
would be a good addition. However, the "not be able to tamper with"
part is tricky because Mahara / MyPortfolio puts the student in the
centre and s/he is the author of all her / his pages. A teacher or
administration cannot put anything on a page that a student can't
remove as he doesn't have the authority on the student's pages.
Thus, introducing such badges for profile pages is not a simple thing
to do. At the moment, the only way I can see this work, besides
Craig's suggestion with the electronic verification [of a PDF file à
la Moodle], would be to develop a database in which each institution
admin can store merit, sports etc. badges (would it be important to
categorise them?). He would then have an area on the student account
page where he can add the badges the student has earned over time. On
the edit page screen, the student would have a new blocktype, e.g.
under General, "Badges", which s/he can pull into the content area.
That would work not just for the profile page but for any personal
page on MyPortfolio so that he could also include the badges on a CV
page. If the bages are categorised, s/he can choose which badge
categories to display (if that is necessary). The badges are all
displayed as thumbnails or in a series to scroll through like in the
image gallery.
As the student cannot choose the badges individually, but displays
them from the central institution database, they are as tamper-safe as
can be because even when the student allows the copying of that page,
the badge block would display the badges of the student who copies the
page into her / his portfolio as the block would always display the
current student's badges.
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