Mahara as an assignment

If you have got your Mahoodle up and running you can set a Mahara page as an assignment submission.  I intend to use this so I can set a group of learners a bunch of pages with text boxes in, which they can fill in and then have assessed.

I followed the instructions in this wiki but, as with everything Moodle related, it's not completely clear.

There are two Moodle plugins you need to install.  First download the local folder. Unzip this and you'll get a file called moodle21. Unzip this as well and you'll have a file called pax_global_header and a folder called mahara-contrib-local-mahara.  You need to upload the contents of the folder to your moodle in the /local/mahara directory (you might need to create the /mahara folder).

Next you need to download the assignment type plugin. Unzip this and you'll get another moodle21 file which  you also need to unzip.  Again you'll get a file and a folder.  Upload the contents of the folder to your moodle in the mod/assignment/type/mahara directory (again you might need to create the /mahara folder).


Login to your moodle as an admin and visit the notifications page.  Click refresh to complete the installation.


Still as an admin go to site administration > networking > peers > all hosts then click on the services tab.  You should see a new paragraph headed Extra Mahara MNet Module.  You need to click the subscribe box.  From what I understand, ticking the publish box makes no difference so I clicked it too.


If you go into any course you should now be able to set an assignment with an option to submit a Mahara page.