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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

Summary


In this chapter we gave you a sneak look at administration by showing you a bit of what an Institutional Administrator can do. We also looked at Mahara from a tutor's/staff member's point of view, showing and illustrating what these roles are able to do differently to a standard Mahara member. This allowed us to see how Mahara can be used to develop an assessment process, with views being submitted to tutors for marking. We learned about managing our members as an Institutional Administrator, discovered what a Course Group is and learned how a Course Group differs from a Standard Group. We started to explore the roles and responsibilities of Tutors, worked through the process of submitting work for assessment and releasing it back to a student, and introduced some ideas for how you can use all of these features to develop an assessment process in Mahara.

While we saw that Mahara can be used to assess and give feedback on learners' work with our "tutors' hats on", we pointed out that...