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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

Dealing with admin notifications


As an Institution Administrator you will have the responsibility to respond to user activities within the site. Under the Admin Notifications tab, you will see that you will be advised about, and have the chance to respond to, the following circumstances:

  • Contact Us: A user has made contact with you via the Contact Us facility. (This facility is always easily accessed by looking at the footer of your Mahara page—even when logged out.)

  • Objectionable Content: At the bottom of user submitted views, reading users will find the option to Report Objectionable Content to the Mahara Administrators. You will receive notifications on this page when this happens. You will then need to go ahead and investigate the incident reported. While inappropriate behavior can't be completely thwarted on a Mahara site, in just the same way as you cannot stop this sort of thing from happening in a real-world environment, you can at least use this facility to responsively investig...