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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

Chapter 3. Create and Collect Content

In the last chapter, you got started with Mahara, learning how to register and log in, as well as looking at some of the basics. You also learned how to set up your own profile. Now you are going to start putting information into your portfolio and seeing how to add some of this to your dashboard page.

In this chapter you will:

  • Learn how to upload files to your portfolio

  • Organize your files using folders and tags

  • Start writing in your Journal!

  • Make a plan and set some tasks

  • Learn how to manage your notes

  • Show off content on your dashboard page

Putting your files online

Before we go into the detail of how you can put your files into Mahara, let's think over why you would want to do this.

Mahara replaces the USB stick

You can log on to Mahara from anywhere, if you have access to the Internet, using an Internet browser. This is great, because it means that you are able to upload and review your files, folders, journals, and pages whenever you need to! Some have described...

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