| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 247 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. What Can Mahara Do for Me? -- 2. Getting Started with Mahara -- 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 |
|
1. What Can Mahara Do for Me? -- Portfolios go electronic -- Towards an ePortfolio-enabled future -- Ways of using Mahara -- Case study one: Punam from Pennytown Primary -- Case study two: Janet Norman from Pharmaceuticals International Inc. (PI Inc.) -- Case study three: Neil from Training 4 Work -- Time for action -- looking at some real-life Maharas -- Why Mahara? -- Personalized learning -- Reflective learning -- Collaborative learning -- Join the Mahara community -- Time for action -- registering and exploring further -- Summary -- 2. Getting Started with Mahara -- Registering with a Mahara site -- Time for action -- registering onto the demonstration site -- Logging in for the first time -- Time for action -- logging in -- Mahara's user interface-finding your way around -- A word on Mahara themes -- The main menu and submenus -- Site blocks -- The footer -- Setting up your own profile -- Profile information -- Editing your profile -- Time for action -- editing your profile -- Profile icons -- Time for action -- uploading your profile icons -- Editing your resumé goals and skills -- Time for action -- editing your resumé goals and skills -- Your profile page -- Time for action -- viewing and investigating your profile page -- The profile page wall -- Some more profile page examples -- Adding a text box to your profile page -- Time for action -- creating a text box for your profile page -- Options in the text editor -- Time for action -- editing a text box by adding a hyperlink -- Taking the formatting and editing one step further -- Time for action -- adding an image to your text box -- Summary -- 3. Add Files and Blogs to Your Portfolio -- Putting your files online -- Mahara replaces the USB stick -- Time for action -- adding some folders and files to your Portfolio -- Giving structure to your folder tree and branches -- Copyright -- Upload limit -- Moving and deleting files -- Uploading more than one file -- Time for action -- multiple file upload -- Using tagging to organize your files and search for them -- Blogging -- What is a blog? -- Time for action -- creating your first Mahara blog -- Embedding an image in your blog post -- Linking to files, folders, and blogs in your Profile Page -- Time for action -- linking to files, folders, and blogs -- in your Profile Page -- Summary -- 4. Views -- What are Views in Mahara? -- Time for action -- creating and laying out your View -- Adding/removing columns from your View -- Time for action -- changing your View layout -- Time for action -- adding View details -- View access -- Time for action -- editing your View access -- Making a View copyable -- Deciding who can access your View -- Time-limiting access -- Editing your View once you have created it -- Blocks -- Copying Views -- Time for action -- copying a View -- View feedback -- Time for action -- feedback on a View's content -- Best practice example -- multi-page view -- Time for action -- linking Views together -- to make a multi-page View -- Assessing the quality of your View -- View quality checklist -- Aesthetics -- Content -- Summary -- 5. Working in Groups and Interacting with Friends -- Groups -- Time for action -- creating a group -- Group types -- Open membership groups -- Request membership groups -- Invite only groups -- Navigating your new group -- Time for action -- opening up and navigating around your group -- The groups shortcut sideblock -- Joining an open membership group -- Time for action -- joining a group in maharaforbeginners.tdm.info -- Managing your group members -- Time for action -- removing group members and changing roles -- Group forums -- Time for action -- creating a forum -- Forum moderation -- Managing your forum -- The exciting bit: Forum topics -- Forum discussion frameworks -- Time for action -- adding a discussion topic -- Naming forums and their topic subjects -- Posting to a topic -- Time for action -- replying to a topic post -- Group files -- Group views -- Finding Groups -- Time for action -- finding and joining a group -- Joining a request membership group -- Time for action -- requesting to join a group -- Accepting/Denying requests to join a group -- Making friends! -- Time for action -- finding friends and adding them to your list -- Responding to a friend request -- Managing your friends -- Time for action -- filtering and removing friends -- Summary -- 6. Site Settings and Exporting Your Portfolio -- Preferences -- Time for action -- changing your preferences -- Changing username and password -- Friends control -- HTML editor -- Messages from other users -- Show controls to add and remove columns when editing a view -- Maximum tags in cloud -- Preferences in the right sidebar -- Notifications -- Time for action -- managing your notifications -- Watchlist -- Activity preferences -- Time for action -- choosing your activity preferences -- Exporting your portfolio -- Time for action -- exporting your portfolio -- HTML website export -- LEAP2A export -- Summary -- 7. Institution Administrators, Staff Members, and Group Tutors -- What is an institution? -- Administering an institution -- Time for action -- adding users to your institution -- Bulk uploading users to your institution -- Time for action -- adding institutional users by CSV -- Editing user account settings -- Time for action -- finding a user and suspending them -- Masquerading as another user -- Managing member roles in your institution -- Time for action -- managing your institution's members, -- staff and admins -- Configuring your institution's settings -- Dealing with admin notifications -- Institution views and files -- Views -- Files -- Less learner-driven aspects of Mahara -- What is a course group? -- Case study -- Time for action -- setting up a Course: -- Controlled Membership group -- Publicly viewable groups -- Tutors -- Time for action -- adding a Tutor to your course group -- Submitting work for assessment -- Time for action -- submitting a view to a course -- group for assessment -- Time for action -- releasing a view submitted for assessment -- Putting it all together into an assessment process -- Time for action -- an example assessment process with Mahara -- Summary -- Appendix A: Mahara Implementation Pre-Planner -- What's involved with a Mahara implementation? -- Analysis and Specification -- Deciding if Mahara is right for you -- Understanding your own specific needs and working conditions -- Concept 1: Purpose -- Concept 2: Learning Activity Design -- Concept 3: Processes -- Concept 4: Ownership -- Concept 5: Disruptive Nature -- Choosing between a Mahara partner-supported site or your own installation -- Scoping out your implementation plan -- Decide on your implementation timeframe -- Ensure you have the people's commitment -- Draft out your initial Mahara design -- Draft out your Mahara-specific policies -- Start to embed Mahara into institutional and program priorities -- Design and implementation -- Creating a buzz! -- Getting some quick wins in first! -- Continuously involving your users in the design process -- Keep going despite adversity! -- Evaluation and continuation -- Reviewing and re-evaluating -- Changing and embedding -- Appendix B: Installing Mahara -- What will you need? -- Downloading Mahara -- Time for action -- downloading Mahara -- Using the command line -- Time for action -- creating your Mahara file structure -- Creating the database -- Time for action -- creating the Mahara database -- Setting up the data directory -- Time for action -- setting up the data directory -- Time for action -- creating the config.php file -- Running the Installer -- Time for action -- running the installer -- The last step: Setting up a cron process -- Can I install Mahara on Windows? -- What about installation on other operating systems? -- What is a Mahara partner and what can they do for me? -- Finding a Mahara partner |
| Summary |
"This book will provide you with step-by-step instructions to get started with Mahara and create an impressive electronic portfolio. The book is packed with many useful examples and screenshots for easy and quick learning. Pick this book up if you want to get started with Mahara. This book is for you if: You are a student/learner wanting to maintain online documentation of your projects and share it with a particular teacher/trainer for feedback, You are a teacher wanting to set up an e-portfolio for your students in order to encourage and advance personalized and reflective learning, You are a professional wanting to share your journals and project documents with your team by sharing your existing knowledge and creating new knowledge in communities of professional practice, No previous experience of Mahara is required"--EBL |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Mahara (Software)
|
|
Mahara (Computer file) blmlsh |
| Subject |
Computer managed instruction.
|
|
Education -- Software
|
|
Open source software.
|
|
Educational technology.
|
|
COMPUTERS -- Educational Software.
|
|
Computer managed instruction.
|
|
Education -- Software.
|
|
Open source software.
|
|
Educational technology.
|
|
Computer managed instruction
|
|
Education
|
|
Educational technology
|
|
Open source software
|
| Genre/Form |
Software
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781847199072 |
|
1847199070 |
|
