Student Feedback

Here are quotes from students at BU who have used Mahara to create an ePortfolio:

"The Student Development Award has allowed me to enhance and showcase my skills into a successful format that will greatly benefit my chances of future employment within my sector. The tool Mahara is very useful and completely interchangeable meaning a lot of my ideas can be broadcasted in one place. As it is interactive, potential employers can interact with the page and gain further understanding of me as an individual. The Reflective Writing has helped me to pinpoint my strengths and weaknesses in order help improve them and also make my strengths even stronger! The areas of weaknesses can be identified in order to improve them and also pair them with my strengths in order to help me develop as a more well-rounded individual. The Student Development Award has helped me grow in confidence in everything that I do and is worthwhile in completing for anybody who wants to get involved and take guidance of their own future!"
Level I, School of Tourism

"I am so pleased that I participated in and gained the student development award. It helped me realise the advantages of my extracurricular activities (ECA’s), whilst doing them. The reflective statements I wrote encouraged me to reflect on and realise the learning and development I was achieving on top of my degree. It motivated me to partake in more activities in different areas of the university. It was a great way to meet new people that shared similar interests. Through making my e-portfolio I have learnt many useful IT skills and now have an e-portfolio, which I am very proud of and can easily, be shown to potential future employers. I would recommend the Student Development Award to all students at Bournemouth University!"
Level H, Business School

"I've really enjoyed taking part in BUSDA. It's been great to practice my reflective writing skills and present evidence from all my extra-curricular and volunteering achievements in one portfolio to show to future employers. I was really pleased to be presented with an award which acknowledges all my achievements outside of my degree. I would thoroughly recommend other students to participate in the award and get involved with extra-curricular activities outside of university study."
Level H, Media School

"The Student Development Award was a fantastic opportunity to showcase all the volunteering opportunities I did throughout the year. Mahara was a fantastic website to use to create my online e-portfolio, and will be something I use in the future when contacting employers. The workshops really allowed everyone on the award to realise their own potential, and the fantastic work they put into volunteering to be utilised and presented to make volunteering rewarding in so many ways. "
Level H, School of Design, Engineering and Computing

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