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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 - creating a forum


Now, let's go ahead and see how we set up the legal forum for Janet:

  1. 1. From the group homepage, click on the Forums tab.

  2. 2. You will probably see that there are currently no forums in your group. Let's quickly change that by clicking on the New Forum button.

  3. 3. The add forum page is now open. Give your forum a relevant Title.

  4. 4. Then fill in the Description giving a simple explanation of what the forum will be used for.

  5. 5. You will also see a little button that says Settings; click it. There is an option to automatically subscribe users; if this is set to Yes then all group members will start receiving e-mail updates about this forum. Janet wants her users to decide for themselves if they would like to subscribe so we leave it set to No.

  6. 6. There is also an option to add Moderators for the forum. Moderators are non-admin members who you have confidence in to edit and delete other peoples' topics or posts. Janet has decided that she would like to have one Moderator...