We've been looking at getting files into Moodle. Now let's get them out! It's time to consider another useful new feature: the Portfolio API
Moodle 2.0 enables you to have content captured and "pushed" to external repositories in other words, you can send work from Moodle to another site such as the Open Source e-portfolio site Mahara or to Google Docs. This is very useful for students as they can build up their own e-portfolio of work that has been first handed in to their teacher and graded on Moodle. If exported to Mahara for instance, they can add it to a View (a Mahara webpage) and share with other students or tutors for the purposes of peer review and feedback.
Let's go back to our student, Emma, and see how the process works: