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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

Finding Groups


We have covered everything there is to know about the features of a Mahara group, let's start thinking about joining other groups. Now, it's all good and well having groups in your Mahara, but what happens when it starts to get overloaded with not just tens, but potentially hundreds of them? How will I find not only my own groups but groups that I don't own? The answer to this is Mahara's Find Groups option.

Back to Janet to find out how she would like to use the Find Groups feature:

----- Janet Norman form PI-Inc thinks -----

I've heard that my colleague Fernando has created an interest group about allergy research. I'm really interested to see what's going on in this area because I hear there have been some recent breakthroughs. But, I don't know how to join the group to have a look at their forums. I need to know how to find and join the group I'm looking for.