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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

Groups


Groups in Mahara are a way of bringing users together into places where they can collaborate and share ideas. Groups may be created for different numbers of users. Commonly, you might create a group based around a common interest area or hobby. For example, if you are interested in playing guitar, you might create a group called "Guitar Playing Techniques". Groups may also be based around a course in which all learners of the course are members of the group.

You can give your group a name and description, and decide who can enter the group. Here is what you can do in a Mahara Group:

  1. 1. Configure discussion forums: This is where all the group members can discuss issues related to key topics in the group.

  2. 2. Create group views: Here, users can view group views and, can also collaborate to create new group views.

  3. 3. Share group files: You can allow members of the group to upload their own files to share with other group members.

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