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[Kristina Hoeppner <547330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Proper accounts for people in institutional contexts is difficult as
experience has shown as IT often doesn't want to maintain those.
However, there needs to be a way to authenticate "guests" to ensure that
only authorized people give feedback on portfolios.

A secret URL is not a great way for that as anybody can pick a name.

These could be "on-the-fly" accounts that have a short life span, don't
allow for the creation of portfolios or participation in groups, but
only for the purpose of giving feedback. Alternatively, other options
can be explored that don't require accounts.

** Summary changed:

- View invitations to non-members.
+ Guest access to portfolios

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Title:
  Guest access to portfolios

Status in Mahara:
  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

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