kyvyt.fi, a large-scale finnish e-portfolio service built on mahara

Kyvyt.fi, a large-scale Finnish e-Portfolio service built on

Mahara

Eric Rousselle, CEODiscendum Inc.

Few words about DiscendumFew words about Discendum

• Finnish company established in Oulu, Finland

• We develop and host eLearning services for educational institutions

• Optima LMS platform

• Open Badge Factory

• Kyvyt.fi ePortfolio is built on Mahara

• Discendum is a Mahara partner since 2010

09.04.23Discendum Oy


Current Kyvyt.fi versionCurrent Kyvyt.fi version


New version on Mahara 1.9, in AugustNew version on Mahara 1.9, in August

Kyvyt.fi in a nutshellKyvyt.fi in a nutshell

• National ePortfolio service developed and hosted by Discendum

• Main user organizations are Finnish high schools, vocational and higher education institutions

• Kyvyt.fi was launched in August of 2010

• Today Kyvyt.fi is used by 31 800 users and 200 organizations

• Kyvyt.fi is used mostly for reflective learning, student councelling and assessment (Learning portfolios)


Main ideas of the Kyvyt.fi conceptMain ideas of the Kyvyt.fi concept

• All educational institutions and companies using Kyvyt.fi operate in the same service

• Organizations pay for their institutions

• Free for end users. They can keep their porfolios after graduation and use them for free

• Users own the contents they have created

Why Mahara?Why Mahara?

• Combination of ”traditional” portfolio building with PLE

and social networking

• Open source software, can be adapted to our clients’ needs

• SSO access from Moodle and possibly other LMS’

• Supports Leap2a standard

• Active international user and developer community


Kyvyt.fi is a success story, but many Kyvyt.fi is a success story, but many improvements have been done, and improvements have been done, and

more is coming!more is coming!



Write access for group pagesWrite access for group pages


Group chatGroup chat


Multilingual résuméMultilingual résumé


Integration of cloud servicesIntegration of cloud services


Annotation toolAnnotation tool


Watchlist with foldersWatchlist with folders

The new user interfaceThe new user interface



New interface for pages, groups, New interface for pages, groups, collectionscollections


Direct publication of a blogDirect publication of a blog


The new watchlistThe new watchlist

Kyvyt.fi / Mahara and Open BagdesKyvyt.fi / Mahara and Open Bagdes


•Developed by the Mozilla Foundation

•”A digital badge is an online representation of a skill you’ve earned”

•New online standard to recognize and verify learning (Open Badges Infrastructure)

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About Open BadgesAbout Open Badges


Open Badge Displayer pluginOpen Badge Displayer plugin

Open Badge FactoryOpen Badge Factory


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What is Open Badge Factory? What is Open Badge Factory?

• An Open Badge management system provided as a cloud service

• Core ideas:• Trusted badges / verified issuers

• Strong management features (roles and reports)

• Distributed issuance of badges (Open API / Plugins for Mahara, Moodle etc …)

• Advanced features such as:• Badge requests

• Milestone badges

Discendum Oy


OBF Mahara plugin OBF Mahara plugin


Issuing badges in Mahara groups Issuing badges in Mahara groups


A centralized report system for all your A centralized report system for all your badges in OBFbadges in OBF


eKampus, the Helsinki Mahara-based eKampus, the Helsinki Mahara-based learning environmentlearning environment

The Helsinki eKampus projectThe Helsinki eKampus project

• Between LMS and PLE (LMS goes PLE)

• Improvement of usability (direct publication of blogs, study journals…)

• Better management of processes with roles such as teacher and student (teachers’ groups) and pages’ status information

• New tools such as study journals and assignments, grade board, workflow features

More information More information

•Open Badges:• http://openbadges.org

•Open Badge Factory• https://openbadgefactory.com

• https://openbadgefactory.com/about/getstarted

•Our plugins:• https://github.com/discendum/obf-mahara

• https://github.com/discendum/obf-moodle

Discendum Oy

ContactContact

Eric RousselleEric [email protected]@discendum.com

TwitterTwitter@eric_rousselle@eric_rousselle


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