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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 - opening up and navigating around your group


Let's navigate around the group we want:

  1. 1. In the My Groups section, open up the group you would like to navigate around by clicking on its name. In the following example, we click on the Clinical Trials group we created for Janet:

  1. 2. You will now see all the options available for your group in a menu bar. The tabs are About, Members, Forums, Views, and Files. Try clicking on each of these to get used to navigating around your group.

  2. 3. Return to the default group page by clicking the About tab.

  3. 4. The About page gives an overview of the group. Including a description of what the group is about, who administers and moderates it (we will see who these people are later), when it was created, how many members' files and folders there are, and the latest forum posts. You can also edit or delete the group from the About page. You can use the Mahara Text Editor that you used in Chapter 2 to add images, video clips, hyperlinks, or decorative...