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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 - feedback on a View's content


  1. 1. Start by finding the View that you would like to give feedback on and open it.

  2. 2. At the bottom of the page you will see a section with four options listed. Click on Place feedback:

  1. 3. You will see a box open below. Enter the Message that you would like to send to the person who owns the View.

  2. 4. By default, the Make public option is unchecked. Make your first feedback public.

  3. 5. When you are happy, click on Place feedback. Stewart from Schools Online has found Punam's View and decided he would like to give it some public feedback:

  1. 6. You will now see the feedback displayed at the bottom of the View:

What just happened?

You just gave feedback on somebody else's View content. It is important to think carefully about what you are going to write to the person, especially if your feedback is for a learner and has a critical tone. You don't want people to be offended by your comments; be constructive—you want them to feel reassured. You should certainly...