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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 — adding a discussion topic


Time to create your first forum discussion topic:

  1. 1. Start by reopening the forum that you created earlier. To do this, click on the Forum tab of the Clinical Trials group. You will see all the forums that exist in this group. Click on the name of the forum to which you would like to add a topic.

  2. 2. Then, you will see a screen listing all the options for managing your forum that we discussed earlier. Click on New topic to start creating the topic.

  3. 3. Use the following screen to add a subject and a body. The subject should be descriptive of exactly what you will be talking about in this topic. The body information should give some more information about what it is that you want to discuss, perhaps giving examples or posing questions to other users. You may want to set up an outcomes-oriented discussion framework in your description to stimulate conversation. The screen will look as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. 4. There are two other options on...

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