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Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide

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Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Mahara is a user-centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. These views helps you display your artefacts – text files, spreadsheets, images, and videos – in a way you choose and to the people you want. You can also create online communities and social networks through groups, blogs, and forums.Being a novice, you will need a quick and easy implementation guide to set up your feature-rich digital portfolio.This book is your step-by-step guide to building an impressive professional e-portfolio using Mahara. It covers the key features of Mahara that will help you set up your customized digital portfolio and display the artefacts in your preferred way allowing contribution from selected users only.This book will introduce to the exciting features of Mahara framework and help you develop a feature-rich e-portfolio for yourself. You will see how easily you can create folders, upload multiple files like journals, project documents, pictures, and videos and share them with your friends. You will learn to set up views of these files, making these visible to your chosen friends only. And then, you will allow people to give their inputs.You will learn to create blogs and forums and get connected to the rest of the world. Customization and administration of your Mahara site will become easy after you have gone through this book. Imagine how good you will feel when you will see your knowledge, success, and ideas going live and available to your chosen audiences for their inputs.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mahara 1.2 ePortfolios
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Time for action - registering onto the demonstration site


  1. 1. Enter http://maharaforbeginners.tdm.info into your browser's address bar.

  2. 2. Click the Register link found at the bottom of the Login block:

  1. 3. Fill in the registration form; enter a Username and Password.

  2. 4. Hang on! Before clicking the button to register, you really should read the Terms and Conditions and privacy statement before you agree to them.

  3. 5. Then click the Register button at the bottom of the page. Hopefully, you will now get an on-screen message telling you that you have successfully registered! If not, don't worry, you will get a message on the screen letting you know what went wrong; correct the problem and try again.

  4. 6. Now that your details have been accepted, you will receive an e-mail from the Mahara site. In the e-mail, click the link provided to register.

  1. 7. A new window will open in your browser showing that you have logged into the Mahara site:

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