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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 - exporting your portfolio


  1. 1. Under the My Portfolio tab on the main menu, click on Export.

  2. 2. On this page, you will see the two options for exporting your portfolio. Let's start by making a standalone HTML website. Make sure the Standalone HTML Website option is selected (it should be by default).

  3. 3. Next, you have the choice of exporting your entire portfolio, or just one or more views. Let's export just one of Derrin's views to be displayed as an HTML web page. To do this, first click on the Just some of my Views link under What do you want to export?

  4. 4. You will see a section drop down that invites you to choose which views you would like to export. Derrin chooses his Free Software for Education view and checks the box next to it in order to select it.

  1. Remember, you can choose as many views as you would like to export.

  1. 5. To do the export, click on the Generate Export link at the bottom of the page. You will see a progress bar telling you the details of the export as it...