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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 - adding View details


  1. 1. You should already be on the page to begin stage two of View creation. You will see that the title is Create View Step two: Details. Start by giving a title to your View. You may have to search for your View later, so remember to make your title relevant to the content.

  2. 2. Next, give your View a description and add some tags. These tags work in the same way as the tags you added to your files in Chapter 3, Add Files and Blogs to Your Portfolio. Remember they make it easier for you to search for your View later on, so it is worthwhile taking the time to fill them in.

  3. 3. Finally, choose a display name. You can decide whether or not to show your First name, Last name, Full name, or Display name. This name appears at the top of your View. Punam decides to choose just her First name:

  4. 4. Click on Next to finish the second step of View creation.

What just happened?

You have just added some important details to your View, including the title, description,...