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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 - filtering and removing friends


Let's find out how to do both:

  1. 1. Return to the Groups section of your site and click on the My Friends tab.

  2. 2. You will see a page that lists all your friends. Start by clicking on the drop-down box in the top-left corner shown below:

  1. 3. As you can see, there are three options for filtering your friends. You can choose to show all of your friends, both those who are confirmed and those who you have sent a request with the All Friends option. Alternatively, you might want to show just the friends that have definitely accepted your request and are now your friends with the Current Friends option. Finally, you can show all the friends who you are waiting to confirm your request by clicking Pending Friends. When you have decided which group you would like to see, click the Filter button.

  2. 4. You will now see all the friends that belong to that group. You will also see that for each friend there are two options. Click Send message to get in contact...