Mahara is the first portfolio system to start tying in with Moodle. as of 1.8 Moodle has included a Networking function to allow external systems to connect and share information with it. The logical use of this was to allow users to access multiple Moodle installs. But Mahara is the first external application to make use of this to allow for users to jump between two different web applications.
The integration is still in it’s early days as the new Portfolio API is not yet complete. Once completed, the new API will allow for:
But for now the integration does allow for SSO (Single Sign On) and also brings user data across from Moodle.