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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 - editing your View access


  1. 1. You should now be on a page called something like Edit Access for View "The Tudors". Obviously your View will be called something different. Read the information at the top of the page to familiarize yourself with what access means and what we will be doing in this stage.

  2. 2. One of the first options you will notice at the top of this page is the Allow copying checkbox. This allows others to copy your View. Leave this option unchecked for now.

  3. 3. The middle section is about allowing access. To the left of the page are all the people or groups of people you can allow access to and to the right are those people who can access your View. Currently you will see that there are no people on the right-hand side:

  1. 4. To add a group of users, click on the Add button next to that set of users:

  1. 5. You will now see that the user group you selected has moved to the right-hand side under the Added label. Punam has decided that she doesn't want to allow access...