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Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide Create and host educational and professional e-portfolios and personalized learning communities

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847199065
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mahara 1.2 ePortfolios
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. What Can Mahara Do for Me? 2. Getting Started with Mahara FREE CHAPTER 3. Add Files and Blogs to Your Portfolio 4. Views 5. Working in Groups and Interacting with Friends 6. Site Settings and Exporting Your Portfolio 7. Institution Administrators, Staff Members, and Group Tutors Mahara Implementation Pre-Planner Installing Mahara Pop quiz - Answers

Masquerading as another user


It is worth drawing your attention to the fact here that, as an Institutional Administrator, you can also choose to "Masquerade" as one of the Mahara users in your institution. As we have just pointed out it feels, in principle, wrong and unfair to use such a privilege to edit another person's ePortfolio work. However, there can sometimes be good reasons for us to choose to masquerade.

Perhaps we would want to set new learners up with the skeleton file structure and copy views they would need. You could masquerade in order to set learners up in this way during a formalized stage within an organization's user setup process. Alternatively, maybe you have had a complaint about a user and need to investigate what is happening in their learning space?

Whatever your ethical and decent reason for doing so may be, if you want to masquerade as another Mahara user, you should go first to the users' Site Account Settings page. Next, look under the user's avatar located to...

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