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Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide Create and host educational and professional e-portfolios and personalized learning communities

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847199065
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mahara 1.2 ePortfolios
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. What Can Mahara Do for Me? 2. Getting Started with Mahara FREE CHAPTER 3. Add Files and Blogs to Your Portfolio 4. Views 5. Working in Groups and Interacting with Friends 6. Site Settings and Exporting Your Portfolio 7. Institution Administrators, Staff Members, and Group Tutors Mahara Implementation Pre-Planner Installing Mahara Pop quiz - Answers

Time for action - finding and joining a group


Let see how we can find the group for Janet and explore the ways in which we can search for a group we want to join:

  1. 1. Under the Groups tab, click on the Find Groups option.

  2. 2. The drop-down options display all the groups available under different categories. The default category is Groups I'm not in which is self-explanatory. To change categories, you can use the drop-down selector then click on the search icon (in this case a magnifying glass):

  1. 3. Have a go at changing the search category and see what effect it has on the groups that are displayed below. If there aren't many groups in your site at this point then it is likely that some of the categories won't contain any groups. The other categories to choose from are Groups I'm In and All groups. When you have chosen your filter, click on the search button. For Janet, the Groups I'm not in drop-down reveals the group she is looking for:

  1. 4. When your site starts getting really crowded with...

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