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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 - multiple file upload


  1. 1. Start by putting all the files you want to upload to Mahara into one folder.

  2. 2. Then compress or zip the folder. The resulting zipped folder will end in .zip, .tar, or .tar.gz. How you zip a folder will depend on which operating system you are using but there is plenty of online help to show you how to do this.

  3. 3. Upload your newly created zipped folder to a relevant place in your Mahara Portfolios as you would with any other file. You should now see it in your files area.

  4. 4. You will see that an Unzip button has appeared. Click on it to begin unzipping the folder:

  1. 5. The next page will show you the details of your zipped folder, including where the new files will appear in your Portfolio and which files are included in the zipped folder. Click Unzip again:

  1. 6. The final page shows the unzipping in progress. When it's finished, you will see how many files/folders have been created. Click Continue to finish:

  2. 7. You will now see that the new folder(s) and...