Using Mahara as a staff portfolio and profile system

Elaine Garcia

Plymouth College of Art

13th June 2013

• Information relating to our staff:

CVPracticeTeachingResearch

What we wanted....

Autonomous themselves

No need for the repetition(Internal / External)

Allowed for the differing outputs in art and design

Profiles for students (XCRI-CAP)

User friendly and easy to use

Allowed collaboration

Extendable outside the institution

A public and a private view

What we wanted....

Why Use Mahara?

– Existing use (CREST GuildHE)

– User-friendly and sustainable system

– Good presidency in Art and Design

– Interoperability

– Open Source

– Bespoke system

– Groups and social networking aspects

– Allows reuse of information multiple times

– Easy to update

– Designed to be part of College systems

Profile PageCVResearch, Practice and ScholarshipGalleries

Customisable PagesLinkedIn profileGroups

What is in our portfolio?

What we changed

• The Research Pages– Professional qualifications, accreditations and

awards– Awards, recognition and press coverage– Books and publications– Professional memberships and associations– Research Outputs– Exhibitions, Commissions & Professional Practice

Achievements

– Allow for images and hyperlinks to project details

Standard Pages we ask everyone to useCustomisable pages A public profile linked to the XCRI-CAP feedPopulate our websiteRolling out to all staff across the institution

How it works

Successes

– Flexible system which allows customisation– Response from academic staff and

engagement (photographs)– Response from Sector– Integration of systems with what we have

created (LinkedIn, Social Media)– Creation of tags to show skills and tag clouds

Challenges

– Different demands of stakeholders•HR, Marketing, Research, SMT• Institutional buy in (not from academic staff)

– Working with external contractors to complete work

– Making an abstract concept feel real.

– Getting a branded site that feels right for us