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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

What's involved with a Mahara implementation?


Although real life is not always as neat and tidy as we would like it to be, a Mahara implementation will essentially pass through three broadly distinct stages:

  1. 1. Analysis and Specification

  2. 2. Design and Implementation

  3. 3. Evaluation and Continuation

To scaffold your Mahara implementation here, we have decided to take you through a sequence of opinions, questions, and suggestions. We have split those broader stages into some smaller phases as follows:

ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION

Phase 1: Decide if Mahara is right for you.

Phase 2: Understand your own specific needs and working conditions.

Phase 3: Choose between a Mahara-partner supported site or your own installation.

Phase 4: Scope out your implementation plan.

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION

Phase 5: Create a Buzz!

Phase 6: Get some quick wins in first!

Phase 7: Continuously involve the users in your design process.

Phase 8: Keep going despite adversity!

EVALUATION AND CONTINUATION

Phase 9: Review and Re-evaluate.

Phase 10: Change and Embed.