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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 - adding a Tutor to your course group


  1. 1. Log into your Mahara as the same Staff Member as in the previous Time for action. The course group you created should still be there.

  2. 2. Search for a user in your site that you would like to make a Tutor in your course group. Click on the user to access their profile.

  3. 3. Then, from their profile page, add them to your course group by selecting the appropriate course from the Add to drop-down box. Then click on Add.

  1. 4. Navigate to your course group using either the Groups | My Groups menu options, or more quickly by clicking on the group in the groups list to the right of your home screen (Again, revisit Chapter 5 if you are having trouble locating your group).

  2. 5. Click on the Members tab of your group. In there you should see the user whom you have added in step 3. Peter Tooley of Training 4 Work has identified Susan O'Leary as a Tutor of his NVQ Level 2 group.

  1. 6. Currently, you should see that your user is set as a Member of the group...