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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 your View once you have created it


The View that you created will now have appeared in the My Views area of your portfolio. There are three links that appear, which allow you to edit each of the three steps in View creation. They are to:

  1. 1. Edit View details (1): This relates to step 2 of View creation that we did earlier, where you can change the name or description of your View as well as assigning tags and designing what format your name is displayed in.

  2. 2. Edit this View (2): Takes you to the important step 1, which allows you to add blocks and rearrange them on your View.

  3. 3. Edit View access (3): Relates to step 3—who is allowed to see your View and when.

  4. 4. You can also Delete this View (4).

Punam's View along with its description is as follows:

Have a go hero - edit your View

Now that you know how to go back and change things, try to:

  • Change the title

  • Add a new block

  • Change access rights

You can use the block descriptions in the next section to make a choice about which new block...