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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

Chapter 6. Site Settings and Exporting Your Portfolio

You've now learned how to do lots of really useful things as a user in Mahara. In the next few chapters you will be looking at some more advanced features as you learn how to tweak Mahara to make it work better for you. Sensible new Mahara users will ideally sort out their site settings as soon as they join the site, a bit like reading the new TV manual before switching it on, but we thought that the first thing you would want to do is have a play. This chapter covers two major topics—site settings and export. In the former, we will be looking at how you can refine your Mahara portfolio to be more specifically tailored to your own needs, while in the latter, we will show you how you can export your portfolio so that it can be viewed as an HTML website and can be moved between Mahara and other ePortfolio systems.

In this chapter we shall:

  • Set up your preferences

  • Access your notifications

  • Set up your activity preferences

  • Export your portfolio...