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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

Putting it all together into an assessment process


So far in this chapter, we have seen how powerful Institutions and Course Groups can be in providing a bit more control for Administrators and Staff in a Mahara Site. We have also seen the basis of a simple Assessment Process based around learners submitting views to a course group. Now, let's combine all that we've seen to create an assessment process in Mahara.

First, we'll hear again from Neil from Training 4 Work:

----- Neil from Training 4 Work thinks -----

It is looking great now that Graham has his own institution. He was telling me how he's used this chapter to set up Peter Tooley as a Staff Member so that he can create a Controlled Group for his NVQ Level 2 course.

Now I know a little bit more, I have had some ideas about what we can do to make the assessment process work better in Mahara. While we want each of our learners to creatively express themselves as individuals when they are submitting their ePortfolios, it will...