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Feedback quote from workshop

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David Mullett "The guys were great. Really knowledgeable and open to ideas. I really appreciated them taking the time to share their work with us." - Feedback from JISC RSC Eastern Workshop we presented.

Stuck in a techie vice

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Rae Allen -  http://flic.kr/p/3hDGbd I'm currently stuck, stuck in the middle of pushing an eportfolio system into the institution as a service and holding back because the infrastructure isn't there. Currently our portfolio system, Mahara isn't hooked up to the rest of our institutions authentication system. Students who use the system have to use a completely different password than what they use for email, intranet, vle etc.. This is, for me, a major barrier for convincing students to use Mahara. Don't get me wrong, I want students to use the system, but what I don't want is for students to 'attempt' to use the system, fail, walk away never touching it again.  Mahara does support its own password recovery tools but when does anyone ever ready the information presented after a failed login attempt? There's an opinion floating around that everyone walking through the doors are IT wiz's and unfortunately this vision is far from the tru