We've covered a lot of fairly technical ground in this chapter. Managing repositories and portfolios requires some technical configuration, but the benefits of both systems can far outweigh the initial effort required. Once you have the systems set up, you usually don't have to worry about the configuration unless something in your system changes.
In this chapter:
We set up Alfresco and Google Docs to act as file repositories for Moodle
We practiced adding content to Alfresco and linking that to Moodle
We also looked at setting up Alfresco to help automate some of the content conversion services
We practiced setting up your Google Docs account and linking to content from Google Docs
On the portfolio side, we practiced setting up a basic Mahara instance, as well as linking the Portfolio system to Google Docs
We set up a Mahara view to share content from Moodle
We exported forum content to Google Docs for editing and sharing
There is a lot more to learn about Alfresco, Mahara and integrating...