A student said that to a tutor today and it was music to my ears. Mahara is an online portfolio tool for those of you not in the know, users can upload files and store them there and access them from anywhere that there is an internet connection. A bit like Dropbox or Google Drive or Sky Drive or iCloud or Amazon S3 etc, except it’s dedicated to your Goldsmiths identity and to be honest, it can do a lot more things besides store files.
The student was in the unfortunate position that her flash drive had got corrupted and it was the only place she had her entire portfolio, except very nearly all of it was still in Mahara. Catastrophe averted, student happy, tutor happy and academic developer delighted.
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