An opensource Eportfolio is here:
We installed it on a server and seems to be a good program. A major advantage, it's Free
I was just recently looking at The Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) platform. Which version did you have success installing? v1.0 or 1.5? Mandrake, Fedora, RedHat or OS X?
My biggest concern is that according to their docs they are gearing the OSPI towards being an Oracle installation (rather than a purely open source solution).
I have been thinking of ways to modify a MOODLE to duplicate or better yet improve on OSPI 1.5's interface for managing student uploads and resources... (I understand that the OSPI version 2 is still alpha-ish, but more feature rich than current demos, so I cannot compare to that).
Here's what I believe OSPI 1.5 does:
Provides a template with required fields for a student resume.
Provides a mechanism for upload of resources (images, word docs, etc...) to be displayed within the template.
Provides (v.2) mechanisms for assessment (advisor access and feedback).
Mechanism for selective guest user access of (multiple) finished portfolio "presentations."
Moodle is already more stable, and has parts that do most of these featured mechanisms towards a different end while using a basic and accessible lamp platform (as compared to tomcat, ant, Java, oracle, swing?, etc.).
I wonder if a Moodle codebase could be modified to allow every student to be assigned their own "eportfolio" course (with a new more restrictive course format with fixed labels) and access to only the blog or journal, and teacher-like control of label and resource modules within that course. The special resources in the eportfolio would need a feedback area that would be available to the student and the advisor, but hidden from those guests that were allowed in to view the portfolio via a "guest" key. If moodle could handle a couple of thousand such courses (minus quizzes, chats, forums, and all the other typical mods) then we are talking about potentially the best and most flexible eportfolio platform available. I guess the biggest change would be a mechanism restricting the size of each "eportfolio" course in Megabytes (at least until terabyte raids become commonplace 
).
What do you people think about this? Plausible?
Hello,
Here is one that I have been hoping to integrate into Moodle. It is simple and the code is pretty straightforward. I have adjusted and added grade levels where necessary. http://sourceforge.net/projects/klahowya2/
Just my contrib to further exploration 
Deon
nice, clean: candidate for the showcase-part of a student?
WP;
I got everything installed for this, but I too am stuck on the password issue for the admin. How did you fix this?
Marc
Never mind, another learning experience!!! I got it!!!
Marc
TABLE --> admin_users | |
Field | Value |
userid | 1 |
login | admin |
password | admin |
firstname | Systems |
lastname | Administrator |
The application that is currently being discussed is VERY user friendly. The learning curve is minimal and once the system is set up it is great!! I do not find Wiki, user friendly for my younger students.
So when Deon brought up "Klahowya", I thought I would take a look at it. The code is pretty straight forward and can be traced relatively easy (there aren't that many places the code could be).
There are some issues that have already been discussed or need to be addressed:
1) The issue of Admin user name/password needs to be addressed
2) The need to amend the styles.php so that we could link to a Moodle CSS
3) I have altered the code a little to make it easier for visitors to view portfolios.
4) There are glaring mistakes in the code when you try to upload or delete files. I fixed those last night.
I did all this to demonstrate ePortfolio possiblities at a second interview. Trying to get it all done by next Monday at 3 EDT!!!
This is what I have to this point: http://monroe.socialstudies4u.com/portfolio/
Marc
. However, there is an issue...The navigation doesn't work properly for the Admin. Can anyone help me with the menu on the main page? It will allow us to select the letter of the last name to provide the list of students, but there is an apparent conflict that does not allow the admin to login; students can, but admins can't. It has something to do with the following statement id="navlist"
Any ideas? I have attached the entire edited version of this code. The inc/alpha.php is the file in question.
Marc
Ok, I think I have a solution to the Admin login issue. The login for the admin is calling the same block as the list of letters. So I created a beta.php file that has been placed in the main INC folder. At the same time, I edited the admin/index.php to call the beta.php file instead of the alpha.php file and everything seems to work.
I have attached the updated zip file with the patch.
Marc
On the forum of the product, the author says that during seeding of the database the default admin was forgotten.. (soon solved?)
The Admin issue I was referring to was one that I created when I replaced the very long main page menu with a drop down menu.
While not a clean patch, it works none the less.
Marc
PS. I have contacted the original coders for Klahowya and they are excited about the possible implementation into a Moodle distribution.
Wishes:
Ger;
Not being a coding wizard (not even an apprentice), many of the ideas that you mentioned are currently beyond my ability, but I am willing to collaborate with someone to learn more.
To address your points:
I subscribe the importance of your point 2.
I have been adapting an open source product developed by Middlebury College in the U.S. It can actually be used as a course delivery or portfolio tool, depending on the end-user. You can play with the guest user account I have set up by loging in at: http://mysandbox.net/segue
username: guest
password: portfolio
The interface will be more understandable if you review the instructional guide that I have modified for my users: GUIDE (the links refer to my site)
I have the segue software on a shared server so I am unsure how it will handle multiple users accessing a single account 
. If it should get overwhelmed, here's a link to the Middlebury guest user system: http://seguecommunity.middlebury.edu/index.php (login in with demo/demo)
The site's home page is:
http://segue.middlebury.edu/index.php?&action=site&site=segue
More discussions and information can be found at the SourceForge site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/segue/
One thing that I have been very unhappy with many ePortfolio programs is that these tend to be overly determined.
I'm will be using WinHTTRack to copy the contents of the learners' individual ePortfolios to CDs, so that the learner can take their ePortfolio away with them when they leave the school district.
P.S. At the time of this posting, I'm using an older version of the software that is currently available.
Hi David
It seems to me you could give a student Moodle teacher permission and get the same results.
Nice view
What I do not like is that the product does not support the option to enlarge these very small fonts, just by choosing a bigger font. (frames in use?)
The same for Enrico's portfolio, very nice view but...
RE: What I do not like is that the product does not support the option to enlarge these very small fonts, just by choosing a bigger font.
Yes. There is an updated version of the software. I wonder if they've fixed this feature? 
Hello all,
I appreciate all your work and looking at the portfolio open source I had suggested. I thought it was clean and simple. I should have been looking at the forum more closely but when you are in charge of tech for 2 new schools opening in the Bronx I got a little sidetracked.
I plan on looking at all you have done today and the only thing I had concerns with was getting the public access to the student work turned off unless the student specified a password to say a college or a workplace to view. The rest of it is nice and easy. Maybe you looked and solved that already. Well back to work.
Thanks,
Deon
