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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 - finding and joining a group


Let see how we can find the group for Janet and explore the ways in which we can search for a group we want to join:

  1. 1. Under the Groups tab, click on the Find Groups option.

  2. 2. The drop-down options display all the groups available under different categories. The default category is Groups I'm not in which is self-explanatory. To change categories, you can use the drop-down selector then click on the search icon (in this case a magnifying glass):

  1. 3. Have a go at changing the search category and see what effect it has on the groups that are displayed below. If there aren't many groups in your site at this point then it is likely that some of the categories won't contain any groups. The other categories to choose from are Groups I'm In and All groups. When you have chosen your filter, click on the search button. For Janet, the Groups I'm not in drop-down reveals the group she is looking for:

  1. 4. When your site starts getting really crowded with...