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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 — adding an image to your text box


Let's see how you can add an image to a text box in Mahara:

  1. 1. Find an image on the Internet that you would like to add to your text box. Janet went straight away to a free images site that she knows — Stock xchng at http://www.sxc.hu. She entered the word e-portfolio into the search box and found some suitable images. She has chosen an image of a man jumping in the air with his portfolio in hand:

    Image by Asif Akbar (http://www.sxc.hu/photo/991217)

  2. 2. Copy the link of the image. You can usually do this by right-clicking on the image and clicking on Copy image location.

  3. 3. Reopen the text box on your profile page that you created earlier and click on the Insert/edit image button.

  4. 4. You will see a dialog box pop up. In the Image URL field, paste the location of the image that you copied in step 2.

  5. 5. Give your image a relevant Image description. This shows when you hover over the image with your mouse.

  6. 6. Select the Alignment, Dimensions, Border...

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