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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 - managing your institution's members, staff and admins


  1. 1. We saw in Chapter 6 that site members are able to request to join an institution using their Site Settings (provided that the institution allows users to register themselves in this way). As an Institutional Administrator, you can respond to these requests deciding whether or not you would like that user to join you. Start by clicking on Manage Institutions | Members. You will see a page similar to the following screenshot:

  1. 2. On this page, you can do three things with your members; respond to requests to join your institution, invite people to join your institution, or delete members. This is controlled by the drop-down box called Users to display.

  1. 3. As you can see, the current selection is People who have requested institution membership. You will see members displayed who have requested to join. To accept the new member, first click on their name, then click on the right-hand arrow to move them across to the...