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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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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 — linking to files, folders, plans, and journals on your dashboard pages


So let's see how you can add your stuff to your dashboard page:

  1. 1. Click on the Pages tab, which is under the main menu's Portfolio tab. Click on the link to open up your Dashboard page.

  2. 2. Click on the tab on the right-hand side to edit this page.

  3. 3. Let's start by adding a file that you can download. Click on the Files, images and video tab and drag the File(s) to Download block into your dashboard page.

  4. 4. You will see a dialog box open. Here you can add a file from your portfolio, or quite handily, Mahara allows you to upload a new file into your profile from this block's interface. Choose the file to add and give your block a title so that it's clear what the file is. To finish, click on Select. You will see your file has now moved to the top spot under the Files label.

  5. 5. Continue selecting all the files that you would like to add until you are happy.

  6. 6. To finish, click on Save. Janet Norman adds her...

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