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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 - an example assessment process with Mahara


  1. 1. As a Staff Member, create a course group.

  2. 2. Add all your learners to the group that you just created.

  3. 3. In the "Views" section of your course group create a view and make it copyable by checking the Allow Copying box in the view settings.

  4. 4. Add to the template a basic description of what the learner should be loading into which sections. Here is very simple example of the kind of template you may create:

  1. 5. Save your View when you are happy with it. It should now be seen by all your learners in the course group.

  2. 6. Encourage your learners to copy the template view to their own portfolio area. Here they can make adjustments to it, adding their own information for assessment.

  3. 7. When they are happy with their work, the learners should submit their view back to the group for assessment.

  4. 8. You can assess a learner's work, choosing to add feedback to their work if you want them to review it and resubmit it to you.

  5. 9. Now, in the files...