Mahara has several group types:

  • Audit

  • Course

  • Outcomes

  • Standard

Some group types are restricted to be set up by people with specific roles as they are for formal assessment, evaluation, or other purposes.

6.3. Audit group

Audit groups allow an institution to perform a blind review of portfolios. Mahara does not display the name of the portfolio author to people who have the ‘Tutor’ role.

Warning

Mahara can only prevent the display of the name on a portfolio where the name would normally be displayed. Instead of the name, a random number or string is displayed. However, if a portfolio author includes certificates, images, or multimedia content where their name or likeness is displayed, an auditor will see those as they are the evidence that was uploaded. Mahara does not alter evidence or any text that a portfolio author has written to prevent the display of their name or likeness.

6.3.1. Characteristics of the audit group

There are three roles in an audit group:

  • Member: No change to normal group permissions

  • Tutor: Tutors cannot see real names. They do not have links to profile pages of portfolio authors whose portfolios have been shared with the group.

  • Group administrator: Group administrators cannot see names on portfolos either. However, the name is linked for them so they can go to the profile page where the name is displayed.

Portfolio author names are masqued with a random identifier. This random identifier is provided in a CSV file to be uploaded via a CLI script.

Portfolio titles are replaced entirely with ‘Portfolio by [random identifier] to be audited’ so that auditors can more easily find portfolios they want to get back to rather than just seeing the same portfolio title everywhere. This prevents that the portfolio title shows personally identifiable information.

Note

If a

Create a CLI script (command line script) that ingests from a CSV file:

username

random identifier associated with a username (can be alphanumeric and contain special characters; up to 30 characters total)

‘date from’ and ‘date to’ to indicate the time frame within which the portfolio was created

shortname of the group so we know for which group to make the portfolio available.

If a portfolio should be shared with more than one group, it would appear in two lines in the CSV file.