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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

Deciding who can access your View


One of the beauties of Mahara is just how much flexibility it gives you over controlling access to your information. You can specify who gets to see what and when.

There are four "global" settings, and then you can also specify the users individually:

  1. 1. Public: Choosing this option will allow your View to be seen by everyone whether logged in or not, very much like a public facing website. Sometimes your administrator might leave this option switched off.

  2. 2. Logged in Users: This will allow your View to be seen by everyone who is a member of the Mahara site and logged in.

  3. 3. Friends: This will allow access to everyone you have as a friend. You will learn about friends in the next chapter. This is a useful option if you would like to share a View that is only relevant to people who know you within the Mahara site.

  4. 4. Secret Url: Use this if you would like to give some people who aren't already members of the Mahara site access to your View. The URL is simply...

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