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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 — add a Twitter Tweet button to a Mahara page


Let's start by looking at how to add a Twitter Tweet button:

  1. 1. Visit http://foliofor.me once more or log in to your own Mahara instance and start creating a new page.

  2. 2. In Edit Content view, click on the General tab. You will see an icon called Twitter Tweet:

  3. 3. Drag the block onto your page. There are a few options that you can choose. For layout style, decide where to display the tweet count. This refers to the box, next to the Tweet button, that shows how many people have shared it. Choose either vertical, horizontal, or no count.

  4. 4. Next, choose the Tweet text that is displayed along with the link when the content is shared on Twitter. This should be something relevant to the content on the page. For example, Amazon Biodiversity, if the page is about bio-diversity in the Amazon rainforest.

  5. 5. Click on Save. Here is what the Twitter button looks like on the page:

  6. 6. That's all there is to it. Viewers of the page can now send...

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