Mahara does the same for students in a classroom. As technology has advanced and teachers have adopted their own website for a classroom, students in the room should also have a say in what happens in the online classroom. Students should be able to share, and reflect on, achievements they and their classmates have made. They shouldn't need to wait for the teacher to do this.
Teachers should allow students to encourage one another online. When one student achieves something great it should be easy for others to recognize this and share it with others. Mahara gives students the platform for students to recognize one another.
If a teacher, or classroom, has a Moodle page, then Mahara can be accessed with the same login information and the pages can be linked. This way the teacher has the main classroom site and students have their own individual page that links to it.
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