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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

Chapter 3. Add Files and Blogs to Your Portfolio

In the last chapter, you got started with Mahara, learning how to register and log in, as well as looking at some of the basics. You also learned how to set up your own Profile. Now we're going to start putting information into our Portfolio and seeing how to add some of this to the Profile Page you made in the last chapter.

In this chapter we shall:

  • Learn how to upload files to our Portfolio

  • Organize our files using folders and tags

  • Start blogging

  • Show off our blogs and files on our Profile Page

  • Rearrange the layout of our Profile Page

Putting your files online

Before we go into the details of how we put our files into Mahara, let's think over why we want to do this.

Mahara replaces the USB stick

You can log on to Mahara from anywhere if you have access to the Internet, using an Internet Browser. This is great, because it means that you are able to upload and review your files, folders, blogs, and views whenever you need to! Some have described Mahara...