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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

Editing user account settings


By now you have begun to add some users to your institution, but you may want to go back and change some of the details that you entered when you first created them. You can do this using the User Account Settings section. Each user in your institution has their own Account Settings.

These Account Settings are subdivided into three sections—each with configurable options for your user:

  • Site Account Settings

  • Suspend/Delete User

  • Institution Settings

The Site Account Settings allow you to create a new password for your user. This comes in handy later when your users forget their old one. It is also useful to notice that you can set an account expiry date and that you can reconfigure the user's File quota limit.

You can also suspend a user using the option to Suspend/Delete User. Suspending the user has the effect of stopping them from logging into and using the Mahara system. There are many reasons as to why you might do this, ranging from response to inappropriate...

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