Mahara's user interface—finding your way around

One of the beauties of Mahara is that the menu options are laid out very simply. After clicking through the menu options a few times, you will find that you instinctively know where the option you are looking for is located.

A word on Mahara themes

Before we look in more detail at navigation, it is important to realize that Mahara can be themed. This means you are able to change the visual layout of Mahara—the header section can be configured to have a different logo, layout can be altered, and font size/color can be adjusted (among other things). Theming doesn't affect Mahara content, but only the way it looks.

The demonstration site theme we are using in this book is an adaptation of "Default", which is the theme you begin with. The only difference is that we have made the theme orange and black whereas the default is green. Don't worry if your Mahara has a slightly different coloring or layout, all the "content" should be the same. Now, we...