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[Aaron Wells <1437291@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Domi,

Aaron from Catalyst IT (NZ) here. Kristina had me take a look at the
proposal document you had for this. As I understand it, your use-case is
basically:

1. Students create a group project in a Mahara group.

2. The project includes several pages & collections of the group, which
are linked together via the group's about page.

3. When it comes time for assessment, staff "lock" the group permanently
to keep a grading record

4. Students would like to be able to continue working on their group
project after the assessment deadline (using assessment feedback) and
they would also like to be able to share/publish the group project. They
can't do either of these things when they are locked out of the group.

Is that correct? Also, what method are you using to "lock" the group?
(Is it just, removing all the students from the group?)

It sounds like your proposed solution is to allow group members to
export the group's pages & collections to HTML. Then the students could
export that HTML copy of the group, submit it as a file attachment into
Moodle for assessment, and continue using the live group in Mahara. Is
that correct?

If so, I think that should be pretty much do-able. One stumbling block
is that Mahara's HTML export doesn't currently handle CSS properly (Bug
1317435) but that can be fixed. Some other considerations:

- Which users should have permission to export their group's content? (Would there be privacy concerns about just letting all users export it?)
- Would students also need to export the forum?

There are also a couple of other solutions you could consider, such as:
- The ability to copy a group *within* Mahara (so students would make a copy of the group, and the assessors would freeze and grade that copy instead of the original)
- Adding leap2a export/import for group pages & collections
- Adding leap2a export/import for the whole group (pages & collections, forum posts, member list, settings)
- Add support for groups to the Moodle Mahara assignment submission plugin

However, I think your HTML export proposal would probably be the easiest
out of all of these. Possibly the group copy solution would be about the
same.

Anyway, please let me know whether I've properly understood your use-
case, how you're currently locking groups, your thoughts on export
permissions & exporting the forum, and whether any of the alternatives
I've described are what you're really after. :)

Cheers,
Aaron

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Title:
  export groups

Status in Mahara:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Just as you can export personal pages it would be good to export
  groups pages, for both assessment and sharing purposes.

  Related to this Mahara forum post:
  https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=5199#post22458

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