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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

Best practice example multi-page view


You have seen that each View you create in Mahara is essentially a single web page. On each of these web pages, you can show off a section of your ePortfolio or discuss a subject or topic. Imagine if you could link lots of these web pages together to make a website. You would then be able to create a more comprehensive story using each page to discuss a different topic.

In this section, we are going to show you a very simple way that you can use in order to link your Views together. We will be making our own menu bar as well as discussing the kind of things you might want to put into the different pages of your site.

For our case study, we will be using a multi-page view created by Derrin Kent, which you can see at http://mahara.tdm.info/view/view.php?id=4. Derrin had created a number of Views in his portfolio on topics that interested him, including WBL 2.0 (Work Based Learning), ePortfolios, ZPD (Zone of Proximal Development), Peak Oil, and Web 2.0...