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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 - replying to a topic post


So let's find how to reply to the posts:

  1. 1. Find and open the topic you want to reply to. You can do this by clicking a "recent forum posts" link in your group About page. More commonly though you would click the Forum tab in the group.

  2. 2. Then click on the link to the forum that contains the topic you want to reply to. Janet clicks into her ethical and legal issues forum:

  1. 3. You will now see the topics listed in the forum. Click into the topic that you want to add a response to. Janet clicks into her ethics and placebo effect topic:

  1. 4. For each topic post, you will see that there are options to the bottom-right to Reply, Edit, or Delete. You will only see all three options if you are a forum administrator or moderator. A standard group user will just have the ability to reply. Click on Reply to make your response to the post:

  1. 5. You will then see an editor that you can use to enter your response. Optionally you can also click to add a new title but...