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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 - adding users to your institution


  1. 1. Log into your Mahara as an Institutional Administrator. (If you do not have these permissions, ask your Site Administrator to give them to you. They may need to set up a new site institution for you to work with.) Once you have these permissions, you will see that you have a new tab called User Administration.

  1. 2. Click the User Administration tab. You have now entered the User Administration area of your Mahara site:

  2. 3. Here, you are able to control the users and settings for your own institution. You can return to the main Mahara site whenever you want to by clicking the tab Return to Site. Though don't do that right now, we have work to do in here, first.

    • You will see that the Manage Users tab is selected. Let's explore the sub-menu options that you can see on this page. By default you will be on the User Search page. This is page will be extremely useful for us later. But, before we do anything else, we are going to start by adding some...