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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 - adding a discussion topic


So let's make our first forum topic:

  1. 1. Start by re-opening the forum you created earlier. To do this, we click on the Forum tab of the clinical trials group. You will see all the forums that exist in this group. Click on the name of the forum you would like to add a topic to. For our example, we click on the Clinical Trials forum.

  2. 2. You will then see a screen listing all the options for managing your forum that we discussed earlier. Simply click on New Topic to start making the topic.

  3. 3. Use the next screen to add a Subject and Body. The subject should be descriptive of exactly what you will be talking about in this topic. The body information should contain some more information about what it is you want to discuss, perhaps giving examples or posing questions to other users. You may want to set up an 'outcomes-oriented' discussion framework in your description to stimulate conversation. The screen will look like the following:

  1. 4. There are two...