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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 - choosing your activity preferences


  1. 1. Access your activity preferences by clicking Activity preferences on the Settings submenu.

  2. 2. On this page, you will see all the activity types we looked at earlier. Currently, you will see that each one has the notification type set to Email.

  1. 3. Change your System message setting from Email to Activity log using the drop-down box:

  1. 4. Click Save at the bottom of the page to make the change.

What just happened?

You have just personalized your activity preferences. Now let's think a bit more about those preference settings.

Let's have a look at a few different situations to help you understand these settings more clearly.

Punam from Pennytown Primary wants a fair bit of "hands-on" control over what her students are doing and wants a strong interface between her Mahara site and her e-mail account. Using the three notification types, she sets up her activity preferences like this:

Punam is not particularly interested in messages coming through...