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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

Masquerading as another user


It is worth drawing your attention to the fact here that, as an Institutional Administrator, you can also choose to "Masquerade" as one of the Mahara users in your institution. As we have just pointed out it feels, in principle, wrong and unfair to use such a privilege to edit another person's ePortfolio work. However, there can sometimes be good reasons for us to choose to masquerade.

Perhaps we would want to set new learners up with the skeleton file structure and copy views they would need. You could masquerade in order to set learners up in this way during a formalized stage within an organization's user setup process. Alternatively, maybe you have had a complaint about a user and need to investigate what is happening in their learning space?

Whatever your ethical and decent reason for doing so may be, if you want to masquerade as another Mahara user, you should go first to the users' Site Account Settings page. Next, look under the user's avatar located to...