1. G UIDE TO M AHARA H OW TO USE M Y F ILES, M Y B LOGS AND E XTERNAL F EEDS Rupal Patel Ella Liu Md Abdullah Bin Nejam Arvinth Palanivel

2. INTRODUCTION TO MAHARA Open-source e-portfolio system Established in 2006 in New Zealand Fully featured electronic portfolio, weblog, resume builder and social networking system Tool to create online communities Provides personal and professional learning environment

3. FEATURES OF MAHARA Personal profile includes Academic and Professional achievements User can create personal portfolio with some main features : 1. My Views 2. My Files 3. My Blogs (External Feeds ) 4. Resume Builder

4. My Files My files is useful and user-friendly features of Mahara to have personal repository You can edit files, manage files and folder You can exchange files from one folder to another

5. HOW TO USE MY FILES Click to log in Log in Mahara 1.If you have already loged in ACS, click ACS Portfolio on your right side (shown in Fig.1) 2.Go to http://mahara.org/ to log inhttp://mahara.org/ Fig.1

6. HOW TO USE MY FILES Click here Click here to access My Portfolio to access “My Views”, “My Files” and “My Blogs” (shown in Fig.2) Fig.2

7. HOW TO USE MY FILES Click “My Files” tag to access MY FILES where you can upload your art facts (shown in Fig.3). Click “upload file” (in red circle) to upload your documents. Click here Fig.3

8. HOW TO USE MY FILES Click here to browse your files Select the file you want to upload Fig.4

9. HOW TO USE MY FILES Browse your files To upload file, click the “Upload file” button (shown in Fig.5) Do not forget to tick on “Copyright notice” Fig.5 Fill in the details Click here Tick here

10. Edit Files Then you can see uploaded file and details You can also edit or delete your files To create the folder, click “Create folder” button (shown in Fig.6) Click here Fig.6

11. Create folder To create the folder, fill in the information and click “create folder” (shown in Fig.7) Click here Fig.7

12. Move files to folder You can see your folder and details in Fig.8 To move your files into the folder, drag the files into the folder. Fig.8

13. MY BLOGS Mahara combines e-portfolio system with the social networking features ‘My Blogs’ is one of the social networking side of the system You can create your own blogs, and more than one blog (E.g. Personal Blog, Professional Blog, Social Blog) You can manage these blogs by creating different views, using ‘My Views’. (E.g. Personal Blog – Only for friends and family, Professional Blog- Only for colleagues and other fellow employees from your industry, Social Blog – a different community of people)

14. CREATING A BLOG After you logged in, click ‘My Portfolio’, it is one of the main tabs in the welcome page, as shown in Fig.9 Fig.9

15. CREATING A BLOG.. You will see some new options under the main tabs, click ‘My Blogs’, as shown in Fig.10 Fig.10

16. CREATING A BLOG.. If there are some existing blogs, you will find it here To create a new blog, click ‘Add Blog’ button as shown in the Fig.11 Fig.11

17. CREATING A BLOG.. Now, you will see the following page Step1 : Add a suitable title to your blog (E.g. Arvin’s Blog) Step2 : Write a short description about your blog Step3 : Add some tags related to your blog Step4 : Click ‘Create Blog’ button at the bottom of the page Fig.12

18. POSTING IN THE BLOG Now you have a blog created, you can add a new post in your blog Click the ‘Add post’ button, as shown in Fig.13 Fig.13

19. NEW POST.. Fig.14

20. EDIT OPTIONS Fig.15

21. CREATE VIEWS Now you can add views to your blogs, you can also allow comments option to rate your posts

22. Managing External Feeds We need to find External Feeds ICON To locate: Click on the Profile tab on the top Then Click Edit Profile Page Click on the External Feeds(1) RSS ICON Fig.16

23. Managing External Feeds Drag & drop the External Feed ICON where the RSS feed need to be loaded in the Profile page After loading it will ask to configure the External Feed Drag & Drop Fig.17

24. Managing External Feeds Name of the RSS feed Input the RSS address Click on “Save” button Fig.18

25. Managing External Feeds Once you save the URL it will show a message “Block configured successfully” Multiple RSS blocks can be managed by dragging and dropping the blocks any where you like We can Edit or Delete by using these icons Fig.19

26. R EFERENCES http://mahara.org/