Mahara E-Portfolios: Beginner’s Guide

What you will learn from this book

• Create folders of your self-produced materials in a private area within Mahara, just like on your own computer, with an easy file search facility
• Create a variety of journals and plans in Mahara – facilitating your own action research and experiential learning journey
• Make an impressive online profile and digital resume using Mahara profile fields and tailor your own profile view
• Create scores of new web pages or mini-websites (collections of pages) entirely from scratch and customize each of them to allow much more flexibility and control over who sees what and when
• Set an environment to receive public or private feedback on your pictures, videos, and articles
• Connect with other Mahara users and get social: discuss topics of common interest in forums and share views with each other in collectively-owned web pages
• Manage different groups of learners within Mahara, tutor them and lock-down their work from further editing if you need to
• Customize and administer your Mahara site to your own preferences using a number of configuration settings for easy administration