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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 - changing your View layout


  1. 1. To add/remove columns from your View, click on the link below the blocks area called Change my View layout.

  1. 2. You will now see a screen inviting you to change the Number of Columns in your View. You can select between 1 and 5 columns. Punam changes her View to have 4 columns and clicks on Next:

  1. 3. The final page asks you whether you would like to change your View to have Larger center columns or Equal widths. Punam decides she would like to stick to equally sized columns and clicks Change my View layout to finish:

  1. 4. Punam's View looks like this with one extra column:

  2. 5. Now that you have returned to the View layout screen, click on Next at the bottom to move on to the next stage.

What just happened?

You have just changed the layout of your View by adding an extra column and finished the layout step of View creation. We will see how you can return to this page later in order to re-edit your View.

How many columns you add to your View depends...