Mahara ePortfolios Beginner's Guide
Towards an ePortfolio-enabled future
Time for action — join mahara.org and explore
Time for action — looking at some real-life Maharas
Registering with a Mahara site
Time for action — registering to the Mahara for Beginners' demo site
Mahara's user interface — finding your way around
A workflow for building your portfolio
Time for action — editing your profile
Time for action — uploading your profile pictures
Time for action — editing your résumé, goals, and skills
Time for action — viewing and investigating your profile page
Adding a text box to your profile page
Time for action — creating a text box for your profile page
Time for action — editing a text box by adding a hyperlink
Time for action — adding an image to your text box
Time for action — viewing and investigating your dashboard page
Time for action — changing your settings
Time for action — open up your notifications inbox
Time for action — adding some folders and files to your portfolio
Time for action — zip, upload, and unzip
Time for action — creating your first Mahara journal
Make a plan and set some tasks
Time for action — make a plan and set some tasks
Time for action — exploring notes
Linking to files, folders, plans, and journals on your dashboard page
Time for action — linking to files, folders, plans, and journals on your dashboard pages
Organize and Showcase your Portfolio
Time for action — create a page and edit the content
Adding/removing columns from your page
Time for action — editing your page layout
Time for action — adding page details
Time for action — editing your page access
Time for action — create a secret URL
Editing your page once you have created it
Time for action — copying a page
Time for action — feeding back on a page's content
Collections — linking pages together
Time for action — create a collection
Assessing the quality of your page/collection
Time for action — exporting your portfolio
Time for action — creating a group
Time for action — opening up and navigating around your group
The groups shortcut side block
Joining an open membership group
Time for action — joining a group in Mahara for Beginners
Time for action — managing group members and changing roles
Time for action — creating a forum
Time for action — adding a discussion topic
Time for action — replying to a topic post
Time for action — finding and joining a group
Joining a request membership group
Time for action — requesting to join a group
Time for action — finding friends and adding them to your list
Time for action — filtering and removing friends
Course Groups and Other Roles in Mahara
Less learner-driven aspects of Mahara
Time for action — adding users to your institution
Bulk uploading users to your institution
Time for action — adding institution users by CSV
Time for action — finding and suspending a user
Switching user roles in your institution
Time for action — creating institution staff and institution administrators
Create a controlled membership group and allow course roles
Time for action — setting up a controlled membership group with course roles
Time for action — adding a tutor to your controlled group with course roles
Submitting work for assessment
Time for action — submitting a page to a course group for assessment
Time for action — releasing a page submitted for assessment
Putting it all together into an assessment process
Time for action — an example assessment process with Mahara
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Time for action — create a list of CPD activities
Time for action — determine multiple intelligences and display them
Time for action — determine your learning styles and display them
Time for action — embed some content using Embedly
Social sharing — Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn
Time for action — add a Twitter Tweet button to a Mahara page
Time for action — embed your LinkedIn profile in a page
Mahara Implementation Pre-Planner
Mahara Implementation Pre-Planner
Mahara Implementation Pre-Planner
Mahara Implementation Pre-Planner
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