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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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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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

Time for action - adding a discussion topic


So let's make our first forum topic:

  1. 1. Start by re-opening the forum you created earlier. To do this, we click on the Forum tab of the clinical trials group. You will see all the forums that exist in this group. Click on the name of the forum you would like to add a topic to. For our example, we click on the Clinical Trials forum.

  2. 2. You will then see a screen listing all the options for managing your forum that we discussed earlier. Simply click on New Topic to start making the topic.

  3. 3. Use the next screen to add a Subject and Body. The subject should be descriptive of exactly what you will be talking about in this topic. The body information should contain some more information about what it is you want to discuss, perhaps giving examples or posing questions to other users. You may want to set up an 'outcomes-oriented' discussion framework in your description to stimulate conversation. The screen will look like the following:

  1. 4. There are two...

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