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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

What is a course group?


We covered standard Mahara groups extensively in Chapter 5 of this book. There is, though, another type of group within Mahara, which can only be set up by Mahara Administrators (either Site Administrators or Institution Administrators) and/or by Mahara Staff Members. These groups allow for more formalized assessment processes and are known in Mahara as Course Groups.

There are two types of Staff Members within Mahara—Site Staff Members and Institutional Staff Members. We have seen so far in this chapter how we can set up an Institutional Staff Member, but there is absolutely no difference between the Institutional and Site Staff Member types.

The Mahara site itself (before any institutions are set up) is probably best thought of as an institution in its own right. In fact, the Mahara system refers to the Site Level institution as "No Institution". This "No Institution" is (counter-intuitively) a Mahara institution itself. No Institution is the name given to...