Place non-author content, e.g. merit badges, on a page
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mahara |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
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.
| Changed in mahara: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| tags: | added: badges certification |
| tags: | removed: certification |
| Jean FRUITET (jean-fruitet) wrote | #1 |
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.