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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

Group forums


The Cambridge Online Dictionary (http://dictionary.cambridge.org) defines a forum as a situation or meeting in which people can talk about a problem or matter. Traditionally, a forum used to be a physical place where people could join together and share ideas (think of the Romans). Nowadays, thanks to internet technology, people don't even need to be on the same continent to discuss things in this way!

Forums are one of the most important features we will use for socializing. Group members are able to talk about a topic in forums and can comment on each other's ideas or suggestions.

Mahara groups give you the ability to add forums at will, allowing your group members to discuss any issues they would like to. Each forum can have lots of users in it—all of them making posts. Posts are simply text comments, and they can be used to ask questions or to respond to elements of a discussion. Each group can have more than one forum, each with a different topic.

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