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The power of “Recent”
For several weeks now I have been using a functionality of my file browser that I had ignored religiously in the past. You see, Ubuntu, a Linux-based operating system, comes with Nautilus, which is the...
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High school students contribute to Mahara
This year, Catalyst organized the fifth annual Open Source Academy. It took place in our Wellington HQ from 5 to 16 January 2015. It was a full house again with 23 students. They came primarily from...
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Scary document morning
When it comes down to working with text documents collaboratively, I’m a happy user of the track changes and comment functionalities because they allow people working together on a document to easily...
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Growing Mahara community
For 2013, our chief Mahara designer Evonne created a series of Mahara merchandise with the Mahara logo in various incarnations. We have the plain Mahara logo, but also various Mahara characters...
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Engaging software requirements review
A few months ago Catalyst was asked by a potential client to go through the project requirements with them in a workshop. There were about 120 requirements with the majority being “must have”, a few...
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One-day of Moodling
Last week, the 10th New Zealand MoodleMoot took place at NorthTec in Whangarei. After a night of torrential rain, the community day, the one that I attended on 5 October 2016, brought bright sunshine...
View ArticleMahara Hui @ AUT recap
I’m playing catch-up and working my way backwards of my events. Yesterday, I wrote a bit about the NZ MoodleMoot on 5 October 2016. Just a day before that, AUT organized a local half-day Mahara Hui,...
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Getting the hang of hanging out (part 1)
Living in New Zealand, far, far away from the rest of the world (except maybe Australia), means that I’m doing a lot of online conference presentations, demonstrations, and meetings. I’ve become...
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A couple of days ago I experienced some some difficulties using YouTube Live Events. So today, I was all prepared: Had my phone with me for 2-factor auth so I could log into my account on a second...
View ArticleMahara 18.04: New privacy features
Last Friday, 6 April 2018, we, the Mahara core team at Catalyst, released Mahara 18.04. It was half a year of intense work especially getting the GDPR features in to help institutions in their...
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