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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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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

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 — creating a text box for your profile page


Let's add a text box to your profile page:

  1. 1. In the Pages section of the Portfolio area, click on the button to the right of your Profile page to begin editing it:

  2. 2. You will now see your profile page in edit view. It will look something like this:

  3. 3. You will notice that you are being encouraged to select different blocks from within a set of six tabs at the top of the screen and drag them down onto your page. Later you will be looking at these blocks and learning how to position them on your page. Right now though, you will be focusing on how to work with the text box. Click into the General tab. You should see this:

  4. 4. Click on the text box icon and drag it somewhere onto the space below in the page, to position it amongst the other blocks already present on your page layout. You will see the other blocks moving as you are dragging to make space for the text box. You will also see a dotted gray line showing you where the new...

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