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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

Making a View copyable


You saw that Mahara has a checkbox that you can select in order to allow your View to be copied by those who can View it. This function can be useful in a variety of settings. You might want your colleagues to be able to copy your View. Suppose you wanted to create several similar Views, on different topics, but wanted to keep a similar presentational theme for all of them. Rather than checking back constantly to see how you set up the first one, checking this box will allow you to copy the first View, (and as we will see later) rename it, and edit it. This is much quicker than setting up several Views from scratch.

----- Punam from Pennytown Primary thinks -----

I really like this copying facility. All the teachers in our school are really good at working together and collaborating on ideas. Stewart has expressed an interest in our Tudors project, but thinks it might be too young for his sixth grade. I'm going to permit copying so he can copy my View and edit...