Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide

Create and host educational and professional e-portfolios and personalized learning communitiesKey FeaturesCreate, customize, and maintain an impressive personal digital portfolio with a simple point-and-click interfaceSet customized access to share your text files, images, and videos with your family, friends, and othersCreate online learning communities and social networks through groups, blogs, and forumsA step-by-step approach that takes you through examples with ample screenshots and clear explanationsBook DescriptionMahara 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.What you will learnYou will learn to:Create folders in Mahara - just like on your own computer - with an easy file search facilityUpload multiple files - journals, reports, presentations, videos, and sound clips - easily and set permissions for your group to view, edit, and delete themCreate a blog in Mahara and get connected to the rest of the worldMake an impressive profile using Mahara profile fields and tailor your own profile viewCreate a new web page entirely from scratch and customize it to allow much more flexibility and control over who sees what and whenSet an environment to receive public or private feedback on your pictures, videos, and articlesConnect with other Mahara users and get social: discuss topics of common interest in forums and share views with each otherCustomize and administer your Mahara site to our own preferences using a number of configuration settings for easy administrationWho this book is forPick this book up if you want to get started with Mahara.This book is for you if:You are a student/learner wanting to maintain online documentation of your projects and share it with a particular teacher/trainer for feedbackYou are a teacher wanting to set up an e-portfolio for your students in order to encourage and advance personalized and reflective learningYou are a professional wanting to share your journals and project documents with your team by sharing your existing knowledge and creating new knowledge in communities of professional practiceNo previous experience of Mahara is required.]]>