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Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide Create your own ePortfolio and communities of interest within an educational and professional organization with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517768
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mahara ePortfolios Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. What can Mahara do for you? FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Mahara 3. Create and Collect Content 4. Organize and Showcase your Portfolio 5. Share and Network in Groups 6. Course Groups and Other Roles in Mahara 7. Mahara Extensions Mahara Implementation Pre-Planner Installing Mahara Pop quiz — Answers

Time for action — zip, upload, and unzip


The following steps will help you to upload and unzip a compressed file:

  1. 1. Start by putting all the files, which you want to upload to Mahara, into one folder on your local machine.

  2. 2. Then compress or zip the folder. The resulting zipped folder will end with .zip, .tar, or .tar.gz. How you zip a folder will depend on which operating system you are using, but there is plenty of online help to show you how to do this.

  3. 3. Upload your newly created zipped folder to a relevant place in your Mahara portolio, as you would with any other file. You should now see it in your files area.

  4. 4. You will see that an unzip button has appeared. Click on it to begin unzipping the folder:

  5. 5. The next page will show you the details of your zipped folder, including where the new files will appear in your portfolio and which files are included in the zipped folder. Click on Unzip again:

  6. 6. The final page shows the unzipping in progress. When it's finished you will see how...

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