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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

Putting your files online


Before we go into the details of how we put our files into Mahara, let's think over why we want to do this.

Mahara replaces the USB stick

You can log on to Mahara from anywhere if you have access to the Internet, using an Internet Browser. This is great, because it means that you are able to upload and review your files, folders, blogs, and views whenever you need to! Some have described Mahara as an online USB stick, although we have already seen that it is much more than this when we started creating our Profile Page.

Mahara is a central resource space which allows you to share the stuff you put into it. No longer do you need to store all your important files in one place. Soon enough you are going to be presenting your work to others while you are sunning yourself on the beach!

Mahara prides itself on its quick file upload facility, which is the feature we are going to look at first. Let's upload your files into your own private space...