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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 - copying a View


  1. 1. Return to the My Views section of your portfolio. Click on the button called Copy a View:

  1. 2. You will now see a page showing all the Views that you are able to copy in the Mahara site. You can use this page to search for Views by both name and owner. Search for and find the View you would like to copy.

  2. 3. Punam has found the View she would like to copy. It is called The Vikings and was created by Stewart. She wants to copy it to use the videos included, but wants to add some more textboxes to make it relevant to her older learners. To copy the View, she clicks on Copy View:

  1. 4. You will then be taken to the screen that allows you to re-edit the View, should you wish to, and see a message indicating how many blocks and artefacts (files, blogs, and so on) were copied. On the details page you will see that your View now has a prefix "copy of" in its name—decide whether you would like to keep this.

  2. 5. None of the access rights have been copied, so decide who...