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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 - logging in


  1. 1. Once your account has been registered, you log in to the site whenever you visit by using the Login block on the home page. Type your Username and Password in and click Login.

  2. 2. If this is the first time you are logging in, it is likely that you will be asked to change your password. If this is the case, enter your New Password twice and click Change password.

  1. 3. That's all there is to it! You have just logged into Mahara for the first time.

What just happened?

You have just learned how to log into Mahara for the first time.

Logging in is easy, if you can remember your login details. If you have forgotten your details, then don't worry; Mahara provides a useful way of retrieving your username and password, all you need is your e-mail address (let's hope you don't forget that!).

To retrieve your details, just click on the Lost Username/Password link at the bottom of the Login box. You will then see this page:

Enter you e-mail address and click Send request. You will...