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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

Institution views and files


You can set up Mahara Views and Files that pertain to your particular institution.

Views

Click on the Views tab and then click the Create View button. You will notice that you have the tabs to drag and add blocks for External Feeds, Files, images and video, and the General options. But you do not see the options to add blocks from your Profile, your Resume, nor for your Blogs.

This is simply because these latter tabs represent more personalized content. The institution views are intended to carry person-neutral content, representing more generic content that can be made available to institution members. Should one of these views be made copyable, of course, any user can then go on to add more personalized views to the view they create from this institutional view, which has been provided as a starting point, should they wish to.

Otherwise, the setting up of an Institutional View follows much the same process as that of setting up a view for yourself as a user. One...