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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 - finding a user and suspending them


  1. 1. Start by searching for the user that you would like to suspend. Click on the Manage Users main menu tab, then on User Search.

  2. 2. On this page, you will see all the users in your institution listed. You can search alphabetically, or by typing a query in the search box. Find the user you are looking for and click on their name.

  3. 3. This will link you to their Account Settings page. As we discussed earlier, this page is split into three sections. To suspend a user, look in the middle section entitled Suspend/Delete User. To suspend your user, type a reason in the box and click Suspend User.

That's all there is to it. You have just suspended the user. Now, visit the Suspended Users page of the admin area by clicking on Manage Users on the main menu, then click on Suspended Users. This page displays all the users that have been suspended. You have the option on this page to Unsuspend Users or to go on to delete them from the Mahara system...