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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 - requesting to join a group


Now let's have a look at the process in more detail:

  1. 1. Start by finding the group you would like to join. For this example, we will be using the Allergy Research group.

  2. 2. You will see that instead of a Join this group button, you have the Request to join this group option; click on it:

  1. 3. Next, you have a page that invites you to enter a description of why you want to join the group. Think carefully about what you will write in here. It is usually a good idea to give well-thought-out reasons for why you want to join as well as expressing enthusiasm for wanting to get involved. When you have given your reason, click Request:

  2. 4. That's all there is to it! You have requested to join the group. You will see when you return to the group listing, that it now says You have requested to join this group.

What just happened?

You have just requested to join a group. Now, you must wait for the group administrator to decide whether or not you should be accepted...