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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

Assessing the quality of your View


So by now, you should have had plenty of practice setting up Views. We would like to encourage you to think about the quality of your View. The quality of your View is very important. If your View is to be available for others to see, then you want them to be enthused to read/watch/listen to what you have to say. If the View is just for personal reflection, you still want to be able to return to the View at a later date and still understand it, especially if you are going to use it in some kind of revision program.

We have devised a list of guidelines for you to assess your Views against. This list is grouped into two key sections that we believe are important in View quality: Aesthetics (layout, graphics, and so on) and Content (what you are adding, how relevant it is, and so on).

You may not agree with all of the guidelines, but hopefully it will help in providing a good basis from which you can assess the quality of your View. This checklist will be...