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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

Deciding who can access your View


One of the beauties of Mahara is just how much flexibility it gives you over controlling access to your information. You can specify who gets to see what and when.

There are four "global" settings, and then you can also specify the users individually:

  1. 1. Public: Choosing this option will allow your View to be seen by everyone whether logged in or not, very much like a public facing website. Sometimes your administrator might leave this option switched off.

  2. 2. Logged in Users: This will allow your View to be seen by everyone who is a member of the Mahara site and logged in.

  3. 3. Friends: This will allow access to everyone you have as a friend. You will learn about friends in the next chapter. This is a useful option if you would like to share a View that is only relevant to people who know you within the Mahara site.

  4. 4. Secret Url: Use this if you would like to give some people who aren't already members of the Mahara site access to your View. The URL is simply...