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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 - viewing and investigating your profile page


  1. 1. View your profile page by clicking on the View Profile Page tab.

  2. 2. You will find this under the Profile button on the main menu. If you entered information into the About Me page, you will notice this is showing in your profile.

  3. 3. Scroll down the page and look at the different sections. You probably won't see many more sections filled in as you're only just starting. Can you see the sections for My Views. This is probably empty at the moment but as you start adding Views, they will appear here.

  4. 4. Janet Norman from PI - Inc's profile page looks like this so far:

  1. 5. Have a look at your Wall. Try typing a message directly into the box in the Wall section and click on the Post button. If you are just playing around with it at the moment, it might be best to check the little box Make your post private, so no one else can see it.

  2. 6. Go and have a look at Derrin's Mahara.org profile page at http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=106 This...