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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 - submitting a view to a course group for assessment


For this Time for action, you will need to be logged in as a standard user who has been added to your course group. Add a standard member to your group if none already exist. As Group Administrator, Peter Tooley of Training 4 Work has added one learner who he knows will be taking his NVQ Level 2 course called Ravinda Pavel. We will be using Ravinda as an example here.

  1. 1. Log in to your Mahara as a standard course member belonging to the course group you created earlier.

  2. 2. Using everything you learned in Chapters 2 and 4, create a view that you think would be of a good quality to submit to your group for assessment. Save your view when you are happy with it. Ravinda has created this view to submit for assessment:

  1. 3. Find the view that you created in step 2 in the My Views section of My Portfolio.

  2. 4. Where it says Submit this View to select the appropriate course group from the drop-down list. It is likely that you only have...