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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

Exporting your portfolio


A new feature introduced in Mahara 1.2 is the ability to export your Portfolio. This is a great feature because it means that your portfolio isn't trapped inside the Mahara website in which it resides; you can set it free whenever you want to! This is great news for your life-long learning. Work that you have done in one school, college, university, company, or other training provider can be transferred and developed upon as you move from institution to institution.

In Mahara, you currently have the ability to export your portfolio into the following two formats:

  • Standalone HTML website: This option creates a self-contained website with your portfolio data. This means you can view your portfolio in a standard web browser such as Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer. This is great because it also means that you can easily show off your portfolio to others via your own website on the Internet rather than the Mahara owned by your educational institution.

  • LEAP2A: This...