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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

Editing user account settings


By now you have begun to add some users to your institution, but you may want to go back and change some of the details that you entered when you first created them. You can do this using the User Account Settings section. Each user in your institution has their own Account Settings.

These Account Settings are subdivided into three sections—each with configurable options for your user:

  • Site Account Settings

  • Suspend/Delete User

  • Institution Settings

The Site Account Settings allow you to create a new password for your user. This comes in handy later when your users forget their old one. It is also useful to notice that you can set an account expiry date and that you can reconfigure the user's File quota limit.

You can also suspend a user using the option to Suspend/Delete User. Suspending the user has the effect of stopping them from logging into and using the Mahara system. There are many reasons as to why you might do this, ranging from response to inappropriate...