What are Views in Mahara?

In Chapter 2, Getting Started with Mahara, we introduced the concept of being able to create "web pages" in Mahara, which we call Views. You also got a glimpse of how easy it is to use the drag-and-drop facility of View in order to add blocks to a View when tailoring your Profile Page.

Views are great! They are one of the stand-out features of Mahara and we think you are really going to enjoy learning to use them. Views, like blogs, are an excellent tool for reflection. The difference between the two is that a blog is very text orientated with a user reflecting on a topic in writing (with usually an odd image or video to supplement the text), but Views allow you to express your ideas in more of a "web page" type format using lots of different blocks. Also, Views are flexible; you can very easily add and remove whichever blocks you want.

You can include a variety of items in your View such as text, images, profile information, and even blogs. When you have done that...