1. Inleiding

Welkom bij de Mahara gebruikersgids. Deze gids is ontworpen als documentatie voor Mahara-gebruikers. Dit document is nuttig voor alle Mahara-gebruikers omdat de meeste gebruikers toegang hebben tot de hier gedocumenteerde mogelijkheden van Mahara. Site- en instituutsbeheerdersfunctionaliteiten worden in een aparte sectie van deze gids besproken.

Laat on er dus zonder verder uitstel aan beginnen!

1.1. Wat is Mahara?

Als je je afvraagt wat Mahara of een e-portfolio is, waarom je er één zou willen en wat het kan doen voor jou, lees dan verder - je gaat het hier te weten komen.

Eenvoudig gezegd is Mahara twee dingen: een ‘e-portfolio <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eportfolio>’_ en een ‘sociaal netwerksysteem <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network>’_ gecombineerd. Een e-portfolio is een systeem waarin studenten “bewijs van levenslang leren” kunnen opnemen, zoals essays, kunstwerken of andere dingen die ze maken en die digitaal bewaard kunnen worden. Zulke dingen worden in Mahara “Artefacten” genoemd. Sociaal netwerksystemen vragen om een klein inleiding – denk aan Bebo <http://bebo.com/>`_, Facebook [http://facebook.com/] of MySpace [http://www.myspace.com/]. Het is een manier om mensen te laten interageren met vrienden en om hun eigen online gemeenschappen te laten maken.

Maar Mahara is meer dan alleen maar een plaats om bestanden te zetten. Met Mahara kun je ook bloggen, een CV bouwen en integreren met ‘Moodle <http://moodle.org/>`_ .

1.2. Het Mahara framewerk

Met Mahara controleer jij welke items en welke informatie uit jou portfolio gezien kan worden door andere gebruikers. Zulke items en informatie worden artefacten genoemd. Om deze controlemogelijkheid mogelijk te maken, moeten alle artefacten die je wil delen met andere gebruikers geschikt worden in een bepaalde zone. In Mahara wordt zo’n compilatie van geselecteerde artefacten een ‘pagina’ genoemd. Je kunt zoveel pagina’s hebben als je wil, elk met een verschillend aantal artefacten, doel en publiek. Jouw publiek of de mensen aan wie je toegang wil geven tot jouw pagina, kunnen toegevoegd worden als individu of als lid van een groep. Je kunt je pagina zelfs openbaar maken.

Zou zou je bijvoorbeeld het volgende kunnen maken:

een pagina voor jouw vrienden en familie waarop vakantiefoto’s staan een een persoonlijk logboek

een pagina voor een tutor, waarop beoordelingen staan en jouw reflectief leerlogboek

een pagina om een tentoonstelling te maken van je beste werkstukken en je CV voor mogelijke werkgevers

…

Je portfolio kan opgebouwd zijn uit een enkele pagina of een collectie van pagina’s. Tot wanneer artefacten op een pagina gezet worden, zijn zij alleen voor jou zichtbaar. Je kunt geüploade bestanden of logboekitems die je geschreven hebt gebruiken op zoveel pagina’s als je maar wil. Je hebt slechts één exemplaar van je artefact nodig.

Beeld je in dat je al je artefacts in een schoendoos hebt verzameld. Wanneer je een nieuw artefact maakt, voeg je dat toe aan je schoendoos. Wanneer je klaar bent om je portfolio te maken, kun je naar de artefacten in je schoendoos kijken en er één of meer uitkiezen die je wil beschikbaar maken op je pagina. Je kunt de artefacten schikken op die pagina zoals jij wil dat het er uitziet.

Portfolio work with Mahara

Het onderstaande diagram met voorbeeldartefacten, pagina’s en groepen toont hoe inhoud in Mahara gedeeld en hergebruikt kan worden in verschillende contexten en voor een verschillend publiek.

Mahara framework

1.3. Hoe past Mahara in het landschap van het e-leren?

Als je denkt aan ‘elektronsiche leeromgevingen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_Management_System>`_ zoals Moodle, Sakai en Blackboard als de formele, gestructureerde kant van e-leren, dan is Mahara de sociale, reflectieve kant. Een ELO en een e-Portfolio vullen elkaar aan in een elektronische leeromgeving.

Hoewel de API’s van Mahara voor iedereen open staat, kan Mahara zeer goed integreren met Moodle en een gestroomlijnde gebruikerservaring geven. Sinds Moodle 2.0 is dit niet meer beperkt tot SSO via MNet, maar kunnen leerlingen ook opdrachten, blogs en nog veel meer rechtstreeks naar Mahara exporteren om daar als artefacten te gebruiken – die kunnen dan natuurlijk op pagina’s gezet worden.

1.4. Wat als er in Mahara functionaliteit ontbreekt die ik nodig heb?

Mahara is van onderaan opgebouwd als een open en uitbreidbaar systeem. Nieuwe artefacten maken, authenticeren tegenover een eigen systeem en veel meer kan geïmplementeerd worden door het schrijven van een plugin die de juiste core API gebruikt. Dit betekent dat het je vrij staat en gemakkelijk is om nagenoeg alles van Mahara aan te passen aan je eigen noden – en betaalde ondersteuning is beschikbaar [http://www.mahara.org/partners] via een netwerk van Partners indien dit nodig mocht zijn.

1.5. Andere dingen om te doen

Nu je een basisidee hebt van wat Mahara is, kun je:

De lijst van mogelijkheden lezen die in Mahara zitten.

De demo verkennen [http://demo.mahara.org/] of Mahara downloaden [https://launchpad.net/mahara/] om eens mee te spelen.

Lid worden van de mahara.org community [http://mahara.org/registration.php] en vragen beginnen te stellen en bijdragen leveren in de forums [http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/index.php?group=1].

Lees verder in deze gebruikersgids.

1.6. Waar kan ik ideeën vinden over hoe Mahara te gebruiken?

Het Mahara 1.4 Cookbook [http://www.packtpub.com/mahara-1-4-cookbook-for-training-education/book] door Ellen Marie Murphy is gepubliceerd in september 2011. Er staan meer dan 50 ideeën in over hoe je Mahara in verschillende situaties kunt gebruiken. Het boek kan als PDF of op papier gekocht worden.

De Mahara E-Portfolios: Beginner’s Guide [http://www.packtpub.com/mahara-e-portfolios-beginners-guide/book] van Derrin Kent en Richard Hand is de aangepaste versie van de Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner’s Guide [http://www.packtpub.com/mahara-12-e-portfolios-beginners-guide/book] en een geweldige referentie voor stap-voor-stap-instructies over hoe een portfolio te maken en bepaalde andere taken te doen.

1.7. Hulp zoeken

Contextuele hulp is in heel Mahara beschikbaar. Kijk uit naar de Help-icoontjes help. Klik er op om hulp te vinden over de actie die je wil doen.

Je kunt ook vragen stellen in de forums [http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/index.php?group=1].

2. Controlepaneel

2.1. Account

Je hebt altijd een account nodig om je te authenticeren en toegang tot je persoonlijke informatie, portfoliopagina’s en groepen te krijgen. Je kunt aanmelden via de Mahara startpagina.

Login form

Gebruikersnaam: Geef je gebruikersnaam in dit veld (niet voor Persona, SSO of Moodle accounts)

Wachtwoord: Geef je wachtwoord; Als je je wachtwoord 5 keer na elkaar fout ingeeft tijdens één sessei, dan wordt je toegang geblokkeerd gedurende 5 minuten voor je opnieuw kunt proberen.

Klik op de Aanmelden knop om toegang te krijgen tot je account

Verloren gebruikersnaam / wachtwoord: als je je gebruikersnaam en wachtwoord voor jouw account niet meer herinnert, klik dan op deze link zodat je naar een pagina gebracht wordt waar je via e-mail je gebruikersdetails kan opvragen. Je zult je gebruikernaam krijgen en een link om je wachtwoord te wijzigen.

Registreer: Als je geen account hebt en je instuut staat zelfregistratie toe, gebruik dan deze link en volg de instructies op de volgende pagina.

Persona login: Als je aanmeldt via Persona [https://www.persona.org/], gebruik dan deze login-knop in plaats van het loginformulier.

SSO-login: Als je inlogt via de SSO (single sign-on)-account van je instituut, gebruik dan deze knop om naar de SSO-loginpagina te gaan.

Notitie

Het gewone aanmeldscherm is enkel beschikbaar voor interne en LDAP-accounts. Interne accounts zijn account waarvoor je registreert via je Mahara site of die aangemaakt waren door beheerders handmatig, of via CSV bestandsupload.

De link voor verloren gebruikersnaam/wachtwoord werkt enkel voor interne accounts als je het standaard loginformulier gebruikt.

Als je bijvoorbeeld aanmeldt via Persona, SSO of Moodle, dan moet je je wachtwoord bij die services halen. Als je niet weet hoe dat moet, neem dan contact op met je beheerder.

Als je enkel Persona en SSO-knoppen ziet, dan zijn deze authenticatiemethodes voor jouw site ingeschakeld.

Nadat je aangemeld bent in Mahara, zie je je “controlepaneel”. Dit is jouw startpagina waar je de laatste activiteit van jezelf en van andere gebruikers op Mahara kan zien. Je kunt het controlepaneel aanpassen, zodat je altijd die dingen ziet die voor jouw het meest belangrijk zijn.

Jij bent de enige die je controlepaneel kan zien. Niemand anders heeft er toegang toe.

2.2. Overzicht

Je kunt bepaalde aspecten van je controlepaneel wijzigen, namelijk de gebruikerspecifieke informatie, maar veel van wat je ziet is statisch om je snel toegang te kunnen geven naar andere delen van Mahara.

Your homepage is your dashboard from which you can access a number of areas in Mahara conveniently.

Algemene navigatiebalk: Navigeer door Mahara. Dit kan gebeuren via een navigatiebalk op een tweede niveau met tabs of met een rolmenu.

Gebruikersnaam: De gebruikersnaam wordt getoond om aan te geven wie is aangemeld en wie portfoliopagina’s bekijkt, vooral op pagina’s waar het profielblok niet zichtbaar is. Deze functie is enkel aanwezig wanneer small page headers niet ingeschakeld is. new in Mahara 1.6 Je kut er op klikken om naar je profielpagina te gaan.

Instellingen: Deze link geeft je toegang tot je accountinstellingen en berichten.

Inbox: Ga naar je Mahara inbox om te controleren op nieuwe berichten. Wanneer je ongelezen berichten hebt, dan toont de teller het aantal ongelezen berichten.

Logout: Link om af te melden van je huidige sessie

Zoek gebruikers: Zoek gebruikers die een account hebben om hun profielpagina te bekijken en te zien of ze pagina’s gemaakt hebben die jij kunt bekijken.

Persoonlijke informatie: in dit vak wordt wat constante en dynamische informatie getoond.

Je naam wordt gelinkt aan je profielpagina.

Je profielfoto wordt gelinkt aan je profielpagina.

Als je lid bent van een groep, dan wordt die hier getoond.

Wachtende vriendschapsverzoeken en groepsuitnodigingen worden getoond.

Als je artefacts of pagina’s met getagged hebt met de tag ‘portfolio’, dan wordt er hier een link gezet.

Snelle links: Deze snelle links brengen je snel naar bepaalde delen van Mahara.

Online gebruikers: Als dit zijblok ingeschakeld is, dan zie je welke gebruikers aangemeld geweest zijn tijdens de afgelopen 10 minuten. Afhankelijk van de instellingen voor jouw instituut kan de beheerder kiezen of je alle gebruikers ziet, de gebruikers van jouw instituut of helemaal geen gebruikers.

Links en bronnen: Lijst met links naar websites of documenten die zichtbaar zijn voor alle aangemelde gebruikers of die openbaar zijn.

Gebruikersspecifieke informatie: Je kunt deze zone aanpassen op je controlepaneel en er blokken zetten die je wil zien telkens je aanmeldt.

Notitie

In het Zoek gebruikers veld kun je zoeken naar de getoonde naam van gebruikers. Afhankelijk van de instellingen die de sitebeheerder gemaakt heeft, kun je ook zoeken naar de echte naam en gebruikersnaam. Als de sitebeheerder toestaat dat gebruikers hun echte naam verbergen, dan kun je dat doen in je algemene account-opties.

Om de meest relevante zoekresultaten te kunnen tonen, zoek je enkel naar gebruikers in je eigen instituut, maar je kunt ook zoeken naar alle gebruikers in de Mahara-installatie op de :ref:`”Zoek vrienden” zoekpagina <find_friends>.

Als de sitebeheerder exacte gebruiker zoeken ingeschakeld heeft, moet je de juiste getoonde naam of echte naam kunnen ingeven om een gebruiker te kunnen vinden.

new in Mahara 1.6 Wanneer je berichten toont van andere gebruikers op je controlepaneel via het Mijn inbox blok, dan kun je vlug zien welke berichten je nog niet gelezen hebt. Zij worden in het vet getoond en hebben een gesloten enveloppe. Berichten die je wel al gelezen hebt, worden getoond met een open enveloppe.

Unread messages have a closed envelope and are displayed in bold whereas read messages have an open envelope

2.3. Snelkoppelingen

Wanneer je voor de eerste keer aanmeldt in Mahara, zie je drie boxen met link:

Maak en verzamel: Ontwikkel je portfolio

Organiseer: Toon je portfolio

Deel en netwerk: Maak verbindingen met vrienden en werk samen in groepen

Mahara information

Met de hulp van deze snelle links kun je de verschillende delen van je portfolio rechtstreeks van je controlepaneel bereiken.

Notitie

Als je deze onderdelen van je controlepaneel verwijdert, maar je wil ze later terug, dan kun je ze terug activeren via Instellingen → startpagina-informatie.

2.4. Gebruikersspecifieke informatie

Het standaard controlepaneel bevat volgende blokken:

Laatste pagina’s

Mijn pagina’s

Recente activiteit

Topics die ik volg

Deze zones worden gevuld met inhoud als je start met Mahara te gebruiken en pagina’s maakt, berichten ontvangt van andere gebruikers, toegang hebt tot de portfoliopagina’s van anderen en forums gebruikt om te discussiëren. Je kunt deze zone aanpassen zoals je wil door het controlepaneel in Portfolio → klik op de bewerk*knop |edit| naast de controlepaneelpagina → wijzig de *blokken zoals je ze wil op elke pagina in Mahara.

Zie ook

Refer to the page editor for more information on adding and removing blocks from a page.

3. Inhoud

3.1. Profile

3.1.1. About me

3.1.2. Contact information

3.1.3. Messaging

3.1.4. General

3.2. Profile pictures

3.2.1. Pictures uploaded to Mahara

3.2.2. Remote avatars

3.3. Bestanden

3.3.1. Upload een bestand

3.3.2. Upload meerdere bestanden

3.3.3. Bewerk een bestand of map

3.3.4. File quota

3.4. Journal

3.4.1. Change your journal settings

3.4.2. Add a journal entry

3.4.3. Add a file as attachment to a journal entry

3.4.4. Add an image to a journal entry

3.4.4.1. Link to an image online

3.4.4.2. Add an image from Mahara

3.4.5. Work with multiple journals

3.5. Résumé

3.5.1. Introduction

3.5.1.1. Write your cover letter

3.5.1.2. Provide personal information

3.5.2. Education and employment

3.5.3. Achievements

3.5.4. Goals

3.5.5. Skills

3.5.6. Interests

3.6. Plans

3.6.1. Create a new plan

3.6.2. Add tasks to a plan

3.6.3. Edit tasks in a plan

3.7. Notes

3.7.1. View your notes

3.7.2. Edit your notes

In de Inhoud-tab komen alle artefacten die je kunt maken of uploaden om te gebruiken in je portfolio. Alle informatie en bestanden die je hier zet zijn enkel voor jou zichtbaar. Uitzonderingen zijn:

je getoonde naam of, als je die niet hebt, je echte naam

je profielfoto

Deze zijn beiden zichtbaar in de Online gebruikers zijbalk als die geäctiveerd is. Je getoonde naam, maar niet je profielfoto, is ook standaard zichtbaar op je profielpagina

Enkel wanneer je artefacts op je portfoliopagina’s zet of ze deelt via een groep zullen die zichtbaar zijn voor anderen.

3.1. Profile

Content → Profile

Your profile page is visible to other users on Mahara by default. If your administrator allowed it, you can also make it visible to anybody on the Internet.

Per default only the following information is put onto your profile page:

Your display name (or real name if you do not have a display name)

Your pages that are visible to the person viewing your profile page

Your groups

Your wall

Your friends

We advise you not to use your profile page as your portfolio because you cannot control who can look at the information you make available on your profile. At minimum it is everybody who has an account on Mahara. At maximum it can be everybody online. Always remember to think about your own personal security before releasing contact information on a publicly available page or even just for other Mahara users.

Notitie

Once you have made your profile page or any portfolio page public, Google and other search engines can index and cache it. Even if you take the public access away at some point, the cached version may still be available online. Pages that are made available via a secret URL are not found by search engines unless you link to them from another page.

Use regular pages to create your portfolio, and then use your profile to make these pages accessible to other people and to establish your digital identity.

Your Profile area stores your contact and personal information. Each of the profile fields can be considered separate artefacts which you can add independently to your profile page or any portfolio page. Thus, you can reveal as little or as much information about yourself to others as you wish.

Zie ook

You can edit your profile page like any other page. You can find more information about editing a page in the page editor.

3.1.1. About me

Content → Profile → About me

You must provide a first and last name. All other information is optional. You name is visible to other Mahara users. You may choose to have a Display name. You can change the information here at any time unless an administrator locked certain fields.

Profile: about me

First name: Your real given name

Last name: You real last name

Student ID: Fill it in if it is required

Display name: The name by which you want to be known around Mahara. If you have a display name, your real name will not be visible to regular Mahara users. Only administrators can see your real name and your username at all times.

Introduction: You can write about yourself. This text is placed onto your profile page automatically unless you take the introduction out of your profile page.

Click the Save profile button to save your changes.

3.1.2. Contact information

Content → Profile → Contact information

You may wish to provide some of your contact information for later use in a page. All details you fill in here are only visible to other users when you put them into a page. Until then only you can see them.

Profile: Contact information

Provide as much or as little contact information as you wish to be able to use in your portfolio.

Click the Save profile button to save your changes.

The email address with which you registered on Mahara is displayed. You can add other email addresses to your profile so that you can use them later on.

Notitie

When you add a new email address, make sure that you do not only click the Add button next to the field where you enter your address, but also the Save profile button at the bottom of the page. Once you have added an email address, it needs to be verified. You will receive an email and need to follow the instructions to fully add your address to your Mahara account.

3.1.3. Messaging

Content → Profile → Messaging

If you use instant messaging services, you may wish to provide the details here so you can use them in your portfolio later easily.

Profile: Messaging

Provide the usernames for as many messaging services as you wish to display in your portfolio.

Click the Save profile button to save your changes.

3.1.4. General

Content → Profile → General

This tab is primarily for adult users who wish to use their portfolio in an employment context.

If you wish to use information about your occupation and / or industry repeatedly in your portfolio, you may wish to consider filling in the information here. You can then easily pull that information into your portfolio pages.

Click the Save profile button to save your changes.

3.2. Profile pictures

Content → Profile pictures

Your profile picture may be a picture of yourself or an avatar image of your choice.

3.2.1. Pictures uploaded to Mahara

You can upload up to 5 profile pictures into Content → Profile pictures. Alternatively, you can use a Gravatar [http://gravatar.com] if you have one and if the site administrator allows its use.

The pictures you wish to use must be between 16x16 and 1024x1024 pixels in size. Ideally, your profile pictures are square. Please use an image editing software before you upload your pictures to reduce a photo’s dimensions to the required ones.

Notitie

The recommended size of your profile picture is 100x100 pixels. Then the picture looks good on your profile when you want to include it there and also in the smaller sizes around Mahara.

The profile pictures that you wish to upload to Mahara must be available on your computer. Choose one picture at a time to upload. You can also give it a title.

List your profile pictures

Profile picture: Click on the Browse button to navigate to your picture on your computer, select it and click Open.

Image title: Optionally, you can enter a title for your picture.

Click the Upload button to transfer your picture to Mahara. It is uploaded to the images folder in your Files area.

Image: Your picture appears in the list of profile pictures. You see a preview of it.

Image title: If you gave your profile picture a title, you see it here.

Default: Decide which profile picture you wish to make your default one which others can see in the “Online users” sidebar and on your profile page. Click on the radio button next to the picture to choose it as your default picture.

Click the Set default button to make your selected picture the default one.

Delete: Select the picture or pictures you wish to delete from your list of profile pictures.

Clik the Delete selected profile pictures button to delete your profile pictures. They will also be deleted from the images folder.

Notitie

You cannot delete the standard profile picture or your Gravatar. If you do not have uploaded any profile picture and set it as default, this will be your default profile picture.

Waarschuwing

If you use a profile picture in a portfolio page, e.g. chosen via the “Image” block, you do not get a warning upon deletion of the picture from the Profile pictures page.

3.2.2. Remote avatars

If the site administrator allowed users to display remote avatars such as a Gravatar [http://gravatar.com] and you have signed up to that service, your default picture will be this remote avatar until you make one of your uploaded pictures the default picture.

3.3. Bestanden

Inhoud → Bestanden

De Bestanden-zone is een opslagruimte, een plaats waar je bestanden en mappen kunt zetten die je kunt gebruiken in je portfolio. Zowel mappen als bestanden worden als artefacts beschouwd en kunnen daarom aan een pagina toegevoegd worden. Je kunt een onbeperkt aantal mappen of submappen maken. Om te zien welke mappen en bestanden er in een map zitten, kun je op de mapnaam klikken. Gebruik de Home-link om terug te keren naar de hoogste map.

Je kunt de mappen en bestanden schikken door het icoontje voor de bestand-/mapnaam te slepen over een andere mapicoontje. Een goed benoemde en georganiseerde mappenstructuur zal je helpen met de organisatie op lange termijn en met het terugvinden van je artefacten. Als je een bestand of map uit een onderliggende map wil verplaatsen, sleep het dan naar het bovenliggende mapicoontje parentfolder.

You will find that some folders are automatically created by the system such as viewfiles or images. The viewfiles folder includes files from imported pages whereas the images folder includes your uploaded profile pictures. As with any other file, you can move them out of this folder and store them in a different folder.

Notitie

You can move files and folders to your heart’s content without having to re-link them in the pages where you use them. Also renaming them will not have a negative impact on links.

3.3.1. Upload een bestand

Voor je een bestand upload moet je er zeker van zijn dat dit mag. Voor alle artefacten die je publiceert in je portfolio moet je over de rechten beschikken. Dit betekent dat:

het artefact van jouw is **of **

je hebt het recht om het te reproduceren en distribueren, het schendt geen copyrights en

het artefact voldoet ook aan de gebruikersvoorwaarden van de Mahara-site die je gebruikt.

Notitie

It can be that you have to agree to an upload agreement before you can upload any files to your files area. The site administrator decides about that in Administration → Extensions → Plugin administration → Plugin type: artefact: file.

Upload een bestand

Upload file: Upload a file by clicking on the Browse button to search for the file on your computer. Make sure that it is not larger than the maximum upload size that is shown in the parentheses.

new in Mahara 1.6 If the site administrator turned on the image resizing option, you can decide whether you want to have your images resized if they are larger than the specified dimensions. This option is recommended to save space in your portfolio.

Type the folder name and click the Create folder button if you want to create a folder before uploading files.

Name: You see all your folders and files that are not in folders listed in this table to access them easily.

Description: View the description of your folders or files to know quickly what the content of them is.

Size: The size of your files is displayed here.

Date: The date you created a folder or uploaded a file is shown.

Click the Edit button edit to edit folder or file properties. Continue with editing a file.

Click the Delete button delete to delete a file or folder. If you use a file in a journal entry and / or on a page, you are warned before deleting the file so that you don’t delete it by accident.

If a folder or file is an artefact in a page that has been submitted, you are not able to edit or delete it.

Notitie

You can move your file to a folder by clicking on the icon before the file’s name and then dragging and dropping it onto a folder icon. Similarly, you can click on a folder icon and drag it onto another folder icon to move the folder into the second one.

3.3.2. Upload meerdere bestanden

Je kunt meerdere bestande tegelijk uploaden op twee verschillende manieren:

You can upload multiple files when you are browsing for them. Hold down the Ctrl key (or Command key on a Mac) and click on all the files that you wish to upload at once.

You can also place all files into a compressed file, a .zip file, and upload that to Mahara. This method allows you to upload multiple files from different folders on your computer at once. You can create a zip file from any number of files that you have selected in your document management program by making a right mouse click and selecting Compress… (or something similar).

Zip files in the Finder under MacOSX

Zip files in Ubuntu’s Nautilus

Zip files in Windows Explorer

Once you have uploaded your zip file to Mahara, you can unzip it there. Click on the Unzip button unzip next to the Edit button edit. Please follow the on-screen instructions.

3.3.3. Bewerk een bestand of map

You can edit the properties of a file or folder at any time. The file does not have to be re-linked in portfolio pages, but the properties you changed will be updated automatically.

Edit a file

Click the Edit button edit to edit folder or file properties.

Name: Change the name of the file (or folder). It is not necessary to keep the file extension as Mahara stores it internally. However, it can be good to leave it in case somebody has problems opening the file if no default programme is associated with the file after downloading it. This field is mandatory and each file (or folder) must have a name.

Description: Give the file (or folder) a description to find it again more easily.

Tags: Give the file (or folder) one or more tags. You can choose from your existing tags by clicking on the Show my tags link and then selecting the tags. If you type your tags, separate them with commas.

Allow comments: Decide if users should be allowed to comment directly on the file artefact page when they view it.

Click the Save changes button to keep your changes or click the Cancel button to abort the action.

3.3.4. File quota

The site administrator of your Mahara site decides how much space you can have to store files. This can vary across institutions. You can check your file quota in the sidebar in your ‘Files’ area.

File quota

3.4. Journal

Content → Journal

The Journal is a tool with which you can record your thoughts and experiences online. By adding your journal or individual posts of it to a page you can allow other users to place feedback and comments on it. Thus, you can create a dialogue with your audience.

Per default, every user has one journal available. You can also have multiple journals.

Overview of a journal with journal entries

Journal title

Journal description (optional)

Click the New entry button to create a new entry in this journal.

Click the Settings button to change certain journal settings (see below).

Title of the journal entry

Beginning of the journal entry

Creation date of the journal entry

If a journal entry is labeled Draft, only you can view it. You can then click the Publish button to publish this entry to your journal for others to see when it is included in a page.

If a journal entry is labeled Published, new in Mahara 1.6 you can click the Unpublish button to revert it back to draft status.

Click the Edit button edit to make changes to your journal entry.

Click the Delete button delete to delete your journal entry.

3.4.1. Change your journal settings

You can change the title of your default journal (and all others if you have enabled multiple journals) and add a description as well as tags.

Journal settings

Click on the Settings button of your journal.

Title: Change the title of your journal. This is a mandatory field.

Description: Add a description for your journal. You can format it as you wish.

Tags: Add tags to your journal for easier searching later on. Separate each tag with a comma. You may also choose tags from the ones that you have created previously by clicking on Show my tags and then clicking on the tags you want to use.

Click the Save settings button to save your changes or the Cancel button to abort your changes.

3.4.2. Add a journal entry

All journal entries you make are private to you until you put them into a page. Thus, the publishing of a journal / journal entry is a three-step process:

You write your entry and save it.

In a page, you choose one of the journal blocks that suits your purpose best.

You give those who shall see that page access to it.

Post your journal entry by following the steps below.

Journal entry

In your journal, click on New entry.

Title: Provide a title for your journal entry that expresses what you are writing about. This field is mandatory.

Entry: You must also write some text, add pictures etc. The visual editor helps you format your journal entry. This field is mandatory.

Tags: Add tags to your journal for easier searching later on. Separate each tag with a comma. You may also choose tags from the ones that you have created previously by clicking on Show my tags and then clicking on the tags you want to use.

Attachments: Add an attachment or more to your journal entry, e.g. PDF files associated with it or images. You can add files either from your files area or upload new ones directly onto your journal entry.

Draft: Mark your entry as draft if you have not finished it yet. This is especially helpful if you have published your journal in a page, but do not want anybody to read this particular entry (yet). It is always visible to you, but not others.

Allow comments: Check this box if you want to receive comments on the journal entry.

Click the Save button to save your entry or the Cancel button to abort your changes.

3.4.3. Add a file as attachment to a journal entry

When you attach files directly to a journal entry, others can see them whenever they have access to the journal entry.

Attachments for journal entries

Click on the Add a file button and then the Select button to select the file(s) from your Files area that you wish to attach.

Alternatively, you can upload additional files by clicking on the Browse button.

If you wish, you can have your uploaded images resized automatically if they are larger than the recommended size. You can only see this option if the site administrator made the image resizing option available.

If you attached a file that you do not wish to attach anymore, you can click on the Remove button to take it off your list of attachments.

Once you are done, you can click the Close button.

3.4.4. Add an image to a journal entry

You can add images to your journal entry in two ways:

Link to the image that is available elsewhere online.

Use an image that you have on Mahara.

3.4.4.1. Link to an image online

Images that are freely accessible online are easy to add to a journal entry. However, make sure that you have the permission to use this image in your portfolio.

Link an external image in a journal post

Go to the visual editor and click on the Image button tinymce_image.

Image URL: Paste or type the image URL into this field. It must start with http:// or https://.

Description: Provide a brief description for your image.

Alignment: Select the alignment of the image in relation to the text.

Dimensions: Change the size of your image. If the image is recognised correctly, you have the image’s dimensions displayed.

Border: Add a simple black border to your image if you wish to do so.

Vertical / Horizontal space: Add more space around the image by adding a number in Vertical space and / or Horizontal space.

Click the Insert button. Alternatively, click the Cancel button if you want to abort inserting the image.

Notitie

The dimensions are given in pixel. The first value is for the width and the second one for the height. Only change one of the dimensions and delete the value from the second to retain the original proportions of the image.

If you are not happy with how the image looks in your journal entry, select it (it will get little square handles) and click on the Image button tinymce_image again to make adjustments.

3.4.4.2. Add an image from Mahara

Link an external image in a journal post

Go to the visual editor and click on the Image button tinymce_image.

Attached image: Select the image that you wish to display. You must have had it attached to the journal entry in order to see it here.

Description: Provide a brief description for your image.

Alignment: Select the alignment of the image in relation to the text.

Dimensions: Change the size of your image. If the image is recognised correctly, you have the image’s dimensions displayed.

Border: Add a simple black border to your image if you wish to do so.

Vertical / Horizontal space: Add more space around the image by adding a number in Vertical space and / or Horizontal space.

Click the Insert button. Alternatively, click the Cancel button if you want to abort inserting the image.

If you are not happy with the alignment or the dimensions of the image in your journal entry, select it and click on the Image button tinymce_image again to make adjustments.

3.4.5. Work with multiple journals

Content → Journals

If you wish to use more journals, e.g. to put your writing into categories for making all posts from one category available in a page without having to select each journal entry, you can go to your Settings and tick the checkbox Multiple journals.

Multiple journals enabled

Once you can create multipl journals, click on the Create journal button to set up a new journal.

All your journals are listed on Content → Journals with their titles and descriptions. The titles link through to the individual journals.

You see how many entries you have in each journal.

Click the New entry button to create a new journal entry directly from this screen.

Click the Settings button manage to make changes to your journal title, description or tags.

Click the Delete button delete to delete the journal and all its entries.

Waarschuwing

There is no deletion confirmation message. Once you deleted a journal, the journal as well as all its entries are gone permanently.

3.5. Résumé

Content → Résumé

The résumé plugin allows you to create an online résumé / curriculum vitae. You can either publish your entire résumé or individual components of it in your portfolio.

3.5.1. Introduction

Content → Résumé → Introduction

In the introduction you can write a Cover letter and also provide some Personal information.

3.5.1.1. Write your cover letter

The visual editor allows you to write and format your résumé. There is also a spellchecker installed which will check for any misspelt words once you click on the Spellcheck button spellcheck.

Write your cover letter

Go to Content → Résumé → Introduction and click the Edit button in the Cover letter section to enter the edit mode for the cover letter.

Write your cover letter.

Click the Save button below the editor window when you are happy with your cover letter to save it for future use, or click the Cancel button to abort your changes.

Notitie

If you write your cover letter or any other text in Microsoft Word instead of directly in the editor in Mahara, please use the Paste from Word button tinymce_word to strip out most of the formatting code that Word puts into a document but can interfere online.

3.5.1.2. Provide personal information

None of the fields under Personal information are required. You can choose to include as much or as little information as you wish. Most fields are free form fields.

Notitie

Mahara is being used around the world. Therefore, some information here or later on in the résumé do not apply to you. If you do not need them, you do not have to fill in the fields.

Add personal information to your résumé

Date of birth: Either choose your date of birth via the calendar icon calendar or enter it in the format YYYY/MM/DD, e.g. 1978/01/30 when you want to say that you were born on 30 January 1978.

Place of birth: Enter your place of birth. You can also enter the country you were born in.

Citizenship: Fill it in as it is shown in your passport.

Visa status: As employment laws vary between countries, you may wish to include your work or travel visa status within your résumé where relevant.

Gender: Select the one that applies to you.

Marital status: Provide it if it is relevant.

Click the Save button when you want to keep that information.

3.5.2. Education and employment

Content → Résumé → Education and employment

This part of the résumé allows you to create a record of your academic and professional qualifications as well as your work experience.

The process of creating an entry for your education history and your employment history is similar. Therefore, the process is explained only once.

Enter your education history one qualification a time

Enter your employment history one position a time

Click the Add button to start a new entry.

Fill in all the fields that are marked in red and with an *. These fields are required to have a minimum of information.

Fill in the other fields if they are relevant for you.

Click the Save button right below the “Qualification description” / “Position description” to save your entry.

Click the Add button to add more items.

Notitie

You can enter the dates any which way you wish. It is not a calendar date field because different résumés require different date formats.

When you have filled in all your qualifications in your education history or all positions in your employment history, you can re-arrange the individual items if necessary.

Interpreting the Education history table

Use the up and down arrows move_up move_down to change the order of the individual items in your history.

Start date: The start date is displayed as you entered it.

End date: The end date is displayed as you entered it.

Qualification: Your qualification / position along with the institution / employer is shown.

Use the Edit edit and Delete buttons delete to edit the individual records or delete them respectively.

Notitie

It is important to save each new entry using the Save button at the end of the form.

3.5.3. Achievements

Content → Résumé → Achievements

In Achievements you can collect information on:

certifications, accreditations and awards, e.g. Chartered Accountant, Registered Nurse, Award for Best Actress

books and publications

professional membership, e.g. in the American Philosophical Society

The process of adding, editing and moving entries is similar to the process for Education and employment.

Click the Add button to start a new entry.

Fill in all the fields that are marked in red and with an *. These fields are required to have a minimum of information.

Fill in the other fields if they are relevant for you.

Click the Save button right below the “Description” to save your entry.

Click the Add button to add more items.

Use the up and down arrows move_up move_down to change the order of the individual items in your history.

Click the Delete button delete to remove an entry from your list.

Achievements provided in the Résumé

Notitie

Click the title of your certification, accreditation, award, book or professional membership to see its full description.

3.5.4. Goals

Content → Résumé → Goals

The Goals area is divided into three sections:

Personal goals

Academic goals

Career goals

Personal or career goals are often provided in a résumé for employers to understand how a particular role might suit your ambitions.

You can use the academic goals section to describe achievements you are seeking in your programme of study.

Write your goal description into the appropriate box and click on the Save button once you are done editing the respective box. You can come back at any time and edit your goals.

Writing down goals for use in portfolio pages

3.5.5. Skills

Content → Résumé → Skills

The Skills area is divided into three sections:

Personal skills

Academic skills

Work skills

You may include skills that you add here in your portfolio pages.

Employers are always interested in what skills you can bring to a role. You can use this section to display the attributes that you would bring to a collaborative community or working group.

Write your skills descriptions into the appropriate box and click on the Save button once you are done editing the respective box. You can come back at any time and edit your skills.

Example of work skills

3.5.6. Interests

Content → Résumé → Interests

The Interests section allows you to list your personal and / or professional interests. This might include your hobbies, sporting activities, volunteer work, areas of research and expertise etc. Listing your interests will help employers form a better picture of who you are and what you would bring to their organisation.

Write your interests into the editor window and click on the Save button once you are done. You can come back at any time and edit your interests.

Example of interests for a résumé

3.6. Plans

Content → Plans

Plans are simple ToDo lists. They are particularly well-suited to plan medium and long-term endeavours. A plan can consist of a number of individual activities with which completion dates are associated.

3.6.1. Create a new plan

Create a new plan

Click the Create new plan button.

Title: Give your plan a title. This field is mandatory.

Description: Give your plan a description. It is visible when you select a plan for inclusion into a portfolio page.

Click the Save plan button to keep your new plan.

Now you can add individual tasks to your plan.

3.6.2. Add tasks to a plan

There are several ways to add a task to a plan:

Click on Add task right after you saved your plan.

Click on Content → Plans → the title of the plan → New task.

Click on Content → Plans → the Manage tasks button manage → New task.

Once you are in the New task screen, you can create your new task.

Add a new task to a plan

Title: Enter a title for your task. This field is mandatory.

Completion date: Provide a completion date. Either choose the date via the calendar icon calendar or enter it in the format YYYY/MM/DD (Year - 4 digits / Month - 2 digits / Date - 2 digits), e.g. 2012/06/27. This field is mandatory and allows for tasks to be marked overdue automatically.

Description: Provide more detailed information about the task.

Completed: Tick this check box if you have already completed the task.

Click the Save task button to finish editing your task.

Add more tasks immediately or at a later point.

Plans under Content

That’s what a plan looks like in a portfolio page. Clicking on the title of the task shows / hides the task description.

3.6.3. Edit tasks in a plan

Click on Content → Plans → the Manage tasks button manage or the title of the plan.

Click the Edit button edit next to a task that you want to change.

Make your changes or mark a task as completed.

Click the Save task button and your changes are recorded.

3.7. Notes

Content → Notes

Notes are bits and pieces of text that you can re-use from one portfolio page in another. These are the text boxes that you could not save in versions prior to Mahara 1.5.

3.7.1. View your notes

Though you cannot create notes directly from this page, you can edit your notes. Their content will be changed wherever that note is used.

Notes seen in the Content area

The Note column contains the titles of the notes where they appear for the first time.

The Contained in column lists all the pages in which this text box is used.

Click the Edit button edit to make changes to the note. Beware that any changes you make here are made to all instances of the note.

Click the Delete button delete to permanently delete the note. This action cannot be undone and all instances of the note are deleted from portfolio pages.

When you submitted a portfolio page that contains notes, you cannot change the note’s content or delete it until the page is released again.

3.7.2. Edit your notes

You can edit your notes to make changes to them.

Waarschuwing

When you make changes to a note from this page, all instances of this note on any portfolio page will be affected.

Edit a note

Title: The title of your existing note is displayed.

Note: The content of your note is displayed. If you make changes here, they will be applied to all instances where the note appears.

Allow comments: Tick this check box if you want to allow others to leave comments on your note.

Click the Save button to keep your changes.

Click the Cancel button to abort your changes.

Zie ook

You can watch a demo of this feature [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz5gh2Quh-g] in action.

4. Portfolio

4.1. Pages

4.1.1. Overview page

4.1.2. Create a new page

4.1.3. Edit an existing page

4.1.4. Copy a page

4.1.5. View a page

4.1.6. Give others access to your page

4.2. Page editor

4.2.1. Editor navigation

4.2.2. Edit title and description

4.2.3. Edit layout

4.2.4. Artefact chooser

4.2.5. Page layout area

4.2.6. Optional theme chooser

4.3. Collections

4.3.1. Manage your collections

4.3.2. Add a collection

4.3.3. Copy a collection

4.3.4. Add collection pages

4.3.5. Manage collection pages

4.3.6. Give others access to your collection

4.4. Share

4.4.1. Edit access for users with an account

4.4.2. Edit access to your profile page

4.4.3. Restrict access based on time

4.4.4. Choose advanced options

4.4.5. Edit access for users with no account

4.5. Export

4.6. Feedback

4.6.1. View feedback

4.6.2. Give feedback

4.7. Feedback for assessment

4.7.1. Submit a page or collection for assessment

4.7.2. Instructor feedback

4.8. Tags

4.8.1. Tag cloud

4.8.2. My tags

4.8.3. Edit tags

The Portfolio is the place in Mahara where you assemble the artefacts that you collect in Content into pages. You can then share these pages with others or simply keep them for yourself.

In this section you learn how to:

create portfolio pages

create collections to bundle portfolio pages

share your pages and / or collections

export your portfolio

give feedback on artefacts and pages

view your tag cloud and change tags

4.1. Pages

Portfolio → Pages

A page contains a selection of artefacts which you arrange and present to others. These may include:

selected files

résumé details

text (your added commentary, instructions or orientation)

journal posts

video and audio files

RSS feed to an external blog

etc.

You can re-use the artefacts that you collected under Content in as many pages as you wish.

The same artefacts can appear in multiple pages

4.1.1. Overview page

On the landing page of the portfolio, you can do the following.

The landing page of your portfolio

Click the Create page button to start a new page from scratch.

Click the Copy a page button to choose an existing page of yours or another user as basis for a new page.

Search: Enter your search term and decide in which context you wish to search it for within your portfolio. Click the Search button to start your search.

Click the Edit button edit to make changes to your dashboard page. You cannot delete your dashboard page.

Click the Edit button edit to make changes to your profile page. You cannot delete your profile page.

Click the Edit button edit to update your portfolio pages.

Click the Delete button delete to remove your pages.

When you submitted a portfolio page to a group, you cannot change a great number of the page’s content or delete it until the page is released again.

new in Mahara 1.6 You can choose how many portfolio pages you wish to display on the overview page at once. Your options are 10, 20, 50, 100 or 500 results. All remaining pages can be reached via the pager.

4.1.2. Create a new page

You create a new page in your portfolio when you want to display artefacts together, e.g. for presenting it to others, for showing your progress in a project etc.

Create a portfolio page

On the Pages page, click the Create page button.

Page title: Provide a title for your page. This field cannot be left empty. If you do not enter a title, the default “Untitled” will appear.

Page description: Write a brief description summarising your objective of this page. It will appear on the page itself.

Tags: Enter tags to find your page more easily at a later stage. Separate your tags with commas. If you already have tags, you can click on the link Show my tags and select the ones that you think will fit for this page as well. They will be entered into the text field for you.

Name display format: Choose which of your names you want to appear on the page as author.

Click the Save button to save your changes and to continue to the Edit content part.

4.1.3. Edit an existing page

You can edit an existing page in two ways:

Click on the Edit button edit when you are on the Pages overview page.

Click on the Edit this page button when you are on the actual page.

Zie ook

You find more information on how to edit artefacts on a portfolio page in the Edit content part.

Waarschuwing

Links to external content such as embedded external videos and RSS feeds to an external blog are completely deleted when you remove the respective blocks from your portfolio page. You cannot recover them. There is no revision history. All other artefacts are not deleted when you remove them from a page because they reside in your Content area.

new in Mahara 1.6 If the site administrator activated clean URLs, your portfolio pages have human-readable URLs which you can change to a certain extend.

Change the URL for your portfolio page

When you are in the page edit mode, click on Edit title and description.

Page URL: Choose the name for your page if you do not like the default one. It must be 3-30 characters long. You can only use lowercase letters from a-z, numbers and - (hyphen).

Click the Save button at the bottom of the page.

Waarschuwing

Though you can change the URL to your page at any point, you shouldn’t do that because people who already know the URL to your page will not be able to access it anymore after you have changed it.

The original, internal Mahara URL, e.g. http://mahara-university.org/view/view.php?id=789 will still work.

4.1.4. Copy a page

You can duplicate your own pages or pages of other users if they allowed you to do that.

Copy a page

Click the Copy a page button under Portfolio → Pages. On the next screen…

Search pages: If there are many pages or collections from which you can choose, either search for a keyword in the page or collection title or

Search owners: Search for the author of the page. This can be a user, a group or an institution.

Collection title: Click on the title of a collection to preview it before copying it.

Page name: Click on the title of the page to see a preview of it before you copy it.

Owner: Click on the name of the owner to view a larger profile picture and the self description if the owner provided one or to see information about a group it that is the owner.

Click the Copy page button to copy one page only into your own portfolio or

Click the Copy collection button to copy an entire collection with multiple pages into your portfolio. All pages within this collection are copied.

Edit the page as you would do any other page.

Notitie

The site administrator can decide to leave out “Copy of…” for copied pages or collections. This setting needs to be made in the config.php file. If $cfg->renamecopies = true;, copies of new pages and collections will have “Copy of” prepended to the title.

4.1.5. View a page

You can view a page to check what it looks like when somebody else sees it. Go to the Pages overview page and click on the title of a page.

An example portfolio page. When you are the author, you can click on the Edit button and make changes.

Title of the portfolio page.

Author of the portfolio page.

Description of the page.

The Edit this page button is only visible to the portfolio author.

The artefacts that have been placed in the page.

Tags which you provided for your page.

If you belong to a group which allows the submission of pages for feedback / assessment, you see the group name displayed and can submit your page directly from here. For more information see the section on feedback for assessment.

Feedback area at the bottom of each page displays comments from users.

You and others can use the Place feedback link to leave comments on the page.

If a page contains offensive artefacts, users can report them to the administrator by clicking on the Report objectionable material link.

Click the Print link to print the page.

Click the Add page to watchlist link if you want to be informed when changes are made to the page.

4.1.6. Give others access to your page

Zie ook

Please refer to the section on sharing your pages and collections for further information.

4.2. Page editor

The page editor is important in Mahara because it allows you to compose your portfolio pages. It consists of a large number of components:

Editor navigation

Artefact chooser

Page layout area

4.2.1. Editor navigation

Page editor navigation bar

Edit title and description: Add and modify your page title, description and tags.

Edit layout: Change the overall layout of your page.

Edit content: Place your content on a page. See Artefact chooser, Blocks and Page layout area.

Display page: Preview your page to see how others, who have access to it, would see it.

Share page: Decide who shall have access to your page. See Share for more details.

4.2.2. Edit title and description

You should give your portfolio page a unique title so that you can find it again later on. The description helps you to see quickly on the overview page why you have created this page. Furthermore, the tags help you to search your portfolio for these keywords and find your content and portfolio pages.

Provide as much information as possible to distinguish and to be able to search your portfolio later on. You can make changes to these settings at any time.

Page title: You must provide a title for your page. Automatically, every page is called “Untitled”.

Page description: You can write a brief description for your page, e.g. its purpose. This description is displayed on the overview page and on the portfolio page itself.

Tags: If you have already tagged artefacts or other portfolio pages, you can choose from your existing tags. This makes it easy to avoid spelling mistakes.

If you either do not yet have tags or want to use new ones, you can write them into the text box. Separate multiple tags by commas (and a space). Tags that you have chosen from your existing list of tags are listed in this text box as well when you have clicked on them.

Name display format: You must choose which name should be displayed when somebody else views your portfolio. You can choose between:

First name

Last name

Full name (first and last name)

Display name

Click the Save button to save your changes.

4.2.3. Edit layout

You have 10 choices for your column layout from 1 column to 5 columns. The 2-, 3- and 4-column layout options allow you to make certain columns wider than others. The icons assist you in your decision of what the end result looks like. However, you cannot set a specific width of a column.

Notitie

Be careful when choosing 4 or more columns. Your portfolio page may look very good on your big 21” screen, but a user looking at it on a notebook or tablet may not have the same experience. In most cases, up to 3 columns is the best choice.

Click the radio button above the layout that you wish to apply to your page. You can change it at any time. When you reduce the number of columns, your blocks simply move to the first column. You can then move them around to their correct position (see Page layout area).

Edit the overall layout of a page by choosing the number of columns

Notitie

You can add or remove columns directly in the page layout area when you enable the Show controls to add and remove columns when editing a page setting in your account options.

You can use the Add and Remove buttons for quick changes to the layout when you have enabled them.

4.2.4. Artefact chooser

All different types of artefacts as well as blocks that pull in external content into a portfolio page are accessible via the artefact chooser.

All artefacts are accessible via a number of tabs in the page editor

Files, images and video: holds blocks for files that can be displayed as links, in folders or in the case of images and videos directly in the page

Journals: various artefact blocks which allow you to place journals / journal entries into a page

General: artefacts that are of a general nature

Profile: choose profile information to display in a block

Résumé: display your entire résumé or parts of it

External content: contains blocks to place RSS feeds, external media or GoogleApps documents etc. into a page

Zie ook

The functionality of each block that you can use in your portfolio pages and in group pages is outlined in the section on the individual artefact blocks.

4.2.5. Page layout area

The page layout area is the place where you arrange all your artefacts for display in a portfolio page. You should know the following about this area:

All artefacts are placed into it by dragging and dropping their blocks into this space.

The artefacts are arranged as a series of continuous blocks per column.

There are no rows, only columns. Blocks are placed beneath each other within a column, but they do not align with blocks in another column to form a single row unless they have the same height.

You can drag and drop blocks by clicking on their headings.

You can change the settings of a block by clicking on its Configure button manage.

Drag a block into the page layout area and configure its settings

Click on the block of the artefact that you want to include in your page and drag it into the page layout area.

When you see the dotted rectangle, drop the block into it to put it onto your page.

Follow the on-screen instructions on choosing the specific artefact you wish to display. Please refer to the artefact block section for more information on each block’s settings.

Zie ook

Please refer to the section edit layout to learn how to change the number of columns on a page and make certain columns wider than others.

4.2.6. Optional theme chooser

You may be able to choose a theme for your portfolio page. If that is the case, you see a Theme drop-down menu below the artefact chooser. That allows you to select a theme in which that page is displayed to others who view your portfolio page. If the option “Not theme selected” is displayed, the default theme is applied automatically.

Select a theme for your page

Zie ook

The site administrator must allow page themes in the site’s user settings.

4.3. Collections

Portfolio → Collections

A collection is a set of pages that are linked to one another and have the same access permissions. You can create as many collections as you like, but a page cannot appear in more than one collection. You can create a collection from scratch or copy an existing one - either one of your own or one from another user that is copyable to you.

4.3.1. Manage your collections

When you are on the overview page of the collections, you can do several things.

Collections overview page

Create a new collection by clicking on the New collection button.

Copy an existing collection by clicking on the Copy a collection button.

Click on the collection title to go to the first page of the collection.

Click on any title of a page within a collection to jump directly to it.

Click the Manage button manage to move pages within a collection, add to or delete pages from a collection.

Click the Edit button edit to change the title and description of a collection.

Click the Delete button delete to delete the collection. The pages will still exist.

When you submitted a collection to a group, you cannot edit or delete it until it has been released.

4.3.2. Add a collection

Create a collection

Click the New collection button under Portfolio → Collections. On the next screen…

Collection name: Provide a title for your collection.

Collection description: Optionally, you can write a short description about your collection. You do not have a visual editor, but just a plain text box.

Page navigation bar: Choose whether you wish to display a tabbed navigation or not. If you choose not to, you will have to include the navigation block for you to go from one page to the next on the individual pages that belong to this collection.

Click the Next: Edit collection pages button or click the Cancel button if you want to abort adding your collection.

4.3.3. Copy a collection

You can duplicate your own collections or collections of other users if they allowed you to do that. As every page can only be in one collection at a time, your own pages will be copied when you copy a collection.

Copy a collection

Click the Copy a collection button under Portfolio → Collections. On the next screen…

Search pages: If there are many pages or collections from which you can choose, either search for a keyword in the page or collection title or

Search owners: Search for the author of the collection. This can be a user, a group or an institution.

Collection title: Click on the title of a collection to preview it before copying it.

Page name: Click on the title of the page to see a preview of it before you copy it.

Owner: Click on the name of the owner to view a larger profile picture and the self description if the owner provided one or to see information about a group it that is the owner.

Click the Copy collection button to copy an entire collection with multiple pages into your portfolio. All pages within this collection are copied or

Click the Copy page button to copy one page only into your own portfolio.

Edit the collection and its pages as you would do any other collection and pages.

Notitie

The site administrator can decide to leave out “Copy of…” for copied pages or collections. This setting needs to be made in the config.php file. If $cfg->renamecopies = true;, copies of new pages and collections will have “Copy of” prepended to the title.

Zie ook

You can watch a demo of this feature [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-TbcR__MDg] in action.

4.3.4. Add collection pages

In the next step after you have created your collection, you choose which portfolio pages you wish to include in this collection. You see all the pages that you can use potentially. If you had already placed a page into another collection, it is not an option here.

Add pages to a collection

Click the Manage pages button manage under Portfolio → Collections. On the next screen…

Put a check mark next to each page that you wish to include in your collection.

Click the Add pages button to add the pages to your collection.

Click the Done button to finish this step.

4.3.5. Manage collection pages

Once you have added your pages to your collection. You can move them around or remove them.

Manage the pages that are displayed within your collection

If you are not already in the page management, click the Manage pages button manage under Portfolio → Collections. On the next screen…

Use the Move up move_up and Move down move_down buttons to arrange your pages in a different order.

Click the Remove button to take a page out of a collection. The page itself is not deleted.

Put a check mark next to each page that you wish to include in your collection in addition to the ones already in it.

Click the Add pages button to add the pages to your collection and then move them around with the Move up move_up and Move down move_down buttons.

Click the Done button.

View the result of your collection by clicking on the collection title or any page that is part of your collection.

A collection with the tabbed navigation

4.3.6. Give others access to your collection

Zie ook

Please refer to the section on sharing your pages and collections for further information.

4.4. Share

Portfolio → Share

When you have created portfolio pages (and collections), you may wish to share them with others, e.g. to receive feedback. You can set the access permissions on the Edit access page. It is accessible via Portfolio → Share or directly from the page editor when you edit a portfolio page.

The Share overview page shows you the following.

Share overview page

Collections: Your collections are sorted alphabetically.

Pages: Pages that are not in a collection are listed alphabetically below the collections.

Access list: The list of users, groups or institutions who have access to a particular collection or page.

Edit access: The Edit access button edit_access next to each collection or page allows you to change the permission of who can view a page or collection.

Secret URLs: The Secret URL edit button edit next to each collection or page allows you to set up one or more secret URLs for a page or collection. The number of secret URLs that you have generated is displayed next to the button.

4.4.1. Edit access for users with an account

The Edit access page allows you to set the permissions for a single user or multiple users who should be able to view some of your portfolio pages or collections.

You can assign access to a single page or collection at a time or to multiple pages and / or collections at once.

Users and groups to whom you can give access to pages and / or collections

You have a number of choices for selecting who shall be able to see what. Always click the Add button if you want to add a group of people or an individual.

Click the Edit access button edit_access next to the collection or page for which you want to give access permissions under Portfolio → Share. On the next screen…

Choose the collection or collections for which you want to give access by placing a check mark in the check box next to it / them. If you made a mistake in your selection, either take the check mark off or select All or None to check or clear all respectively.

Choose the page or pages for which you want to give access by placing a check mark in the check box next to it / them. If you made a mistake in your selection, either take the check mark off or select All or None to check or clear all respectively.

Public: anybody online who knows the URL(s) can see your selection of pages / collections.

Logged-in users: all users who have an account on the Mahara instance you are using can view your selection of pages / collections.

Friends: all your friends on Mahara can view your selection of pages / collections.

Share with my institutions: select your institution(s) with which you want to share your selection of pages / collections. This will allow all members in these institutions to have access to this selection.

All my groups: every member in the groups to whom you belong can view your selection of pages / collections.

A particular group: all members of that group can view your selection of pages / collections.

If none of the above choices are what you are looking for, you can search for specific users or groups. Make your selection to search for:

your friends

any group

any user

Type the name of the user or the name of the group you search for. A partial name is often best.

Click the Go button to search for that person or group.

Click on the name of the user or group to verify that it is the correct one. When you clicked on the name of the user or group and want to get back to the access list, close the window.

Click the Add button next to the user(s) or group(s) to whom you wish to give access.

Click the Save button to keep your changes or click the Cancel button to abort the action.

Notitie

Your friends or individual users with whom you shared your pages / collections receive a notification. Group members also receive a notification that you shared a page with them if the group administrator allowed that. You do not receive a notification when users share their page with the public, all logged-in users, an entire institution or friends.

Zie ook

If you use the web services plugin [https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Plugins/Artefact/WebServices], you can also share pages with “favourite users”. For more information, please refer to the specifications for this feature [https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/799566].

4.4.2. Edit access to your profile page

You can restrict full access to your profile page to the members of your institution if the site administrator allowed that in Administration → Configure site → User settings → Logged-in profile access.

If you allow only members of your own institution(s) to see your profile page, other users who have an account can only see basic information, e.g. your name, your institution membership and messaging information.

Restricted view of a profile

4.4.3. Restrict access based on time

In addition to controlling who shall have access to your pages / collections, you can further restrict that access for a specific period of time.

Restrict access to your pages / collections further

Each user or group of people can receive their own time restrictions that are independent of other access groups. You can specify a start date. You can type the date and time in the format YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM or click on the Calendar icon calendar to select the date.

You can specify an end date by typing it in manually or selecting it via the Calendar button calendar.

You can click the Remove button delete to completely take a user group off your access list.

4.4.4. Choose advanced options

You can choose a number of additional options which are applied to all pages and / or collections that are selected.

Advanced options for editing access to pages / collections

Allow comments: This check box is selected by default to encourage you to allow others to comment on your pages.

Moderate comments: If you wish to see any comment before it is made public, i.e. can be see by others who have access to the page on which the comment is made, place a check mark here.

Allow copying: Place a check mark in this box if you want to allow the users who can view your page to make a copy of it for themselves. Any text box content, files and folders will be transferred to their portfolio. For journals or journal entries you decide separately whether they can copy them or not via the Block copy permission. Profile information, plans and résumé information are not copied.

Retain view access on copied pages or collections: This option only becomes available when you put a check mark next to the option Allow copying. When you tick this check box, you as owner of the page / collection will have access to the copied page / collection automatically. However, the owner of the copied page / collection can take that access away at any time.

Overriding start / stop dates: You set the time frame for when all users who have access to your page / collection can view your page. The dates here override any individual dates you may have set.

Zie ook

Check the blocks which can be copied.

If you have not allowed comments in general, you can still choose to allow them for a certain person or group of people who are in your access list. That way you can regulate very flexibly who shall be able to place comments on a page / collection and who cannot.

Allow comments on a user-by-user basis

Notitie

If you edit an institution page, you see the additional option Copy for new institution members when you allowed copying. With this option you can place a page directly into the portfolio of a new user. Existing users still have to copy the page themselves.

4.4.5. Edit access for users with no account

Besides giving users who have a login or the entire public access to your portfolio, you can also give users who do not have an account on Mahara access to your portfolio pages and / or collections without making your work publicly available and searchable by search engines. This can be interesting, e.g.

when you create a portfolio for a job application and the prospective employer does not have a login and cannot get one.

when you want to share your portfolio with your parents and also get feedback from them.

when an external assessor shall evaluate your work.

Add one or more secret URLs to a page or collection

You can create a secret URL the following way: when you are on the share overview page and click on the Edit button edit:

Click the Edit secret URL access button edit next to the collection or page for which you want to give access permissions under Portfolio → Share. On the next screen…

Click the Add button to generate a new secret URL. You can add as many secret URLs as you wish.

You can now copy this URL and paste it into an email to send to somebody.

You can click the Edit button edit to add a time restriction for access to your page / collection via this URL.

Type a start and / or end date (and time) manually following the pattern of YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM or select the date via the Calendar icon calendar.

Click the Save button to save the date access changes.

Click the Delete button delete if you do not want to use this secret URL anymore.

Notitie

Logged-out users or those who do not have an account can only leave comments on public pages or pages which they can access via a secret URL if the site administrator turned on the Anonymous comments function under Administration → Configure site → User settings.

4.5. Export

Portfolio → Export

You can export your portfolio to keep your files and Mahara-created content offline. You can create an export at any time and as often as you wish. You have two options for the export:

Standalone HTML web site: A zip file containing a web site with your portfolio data is created. You cannot import this into Mahara or another portfolio system again, but it is readable in a standard web browser and you do not need a Mahara in order to view it. To view this web site, extract the zip file and click on the index.html file that is in the folder.

Leap2A: A zip file containing a folder in the Leap2A standard format [http://wiki.leapspecs.org/2A/specification] is created. You can then import this into another Leap2A-compliant system [https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Developer_Area/Import//Export/Interoperability] or have it imported by an administrator into your current Mahara or another one. A new user is created during the import process.

Notitie

It is recommended that you export your portfolio both in HTML and Leap2A because you never know whether you will be able to import it back into Mahara or maybe even another ePortfolio system.

Export your portfolio

To export your portfolio on Portfolio → Export:

Choose either Standalone HTML web site or Leap2A. You can run through the export twice in order to get both formats.

Choose what you want to export:

All my data: Everything that is stored in your account in Content and Portfolio. Excluded are any of your group contributions.

Just some of my pages: You can choose which pages and the artefacts that are contained within them you want to export.

Just some of my collections: You can select which collections and the artefacts that are contained within them you want to export.

If you have chosen to export just some pages or collections, you can select them here by clicking on the individual check boxes to mark them for inclusion. With the links Select all or Reverse selection you can more quickly decide which portfolio pages or collections to include in the export.

Click the Click to preview link to preview a page before you select it.

Tick the check box for Include user feedback if user want to keep that in your export. This option is only available when you choose the HTML web site export.

Click the Generate export button to start the export process.

Depending on the size of your portfolio, the export may take a little bit. Once everything has been processed, a file will either be downloaded automatically to your computer or you can decide to save it. That depends on your browser settings.

Notitie

If your export gets stuck in the process and the progress bar does not move along at all, your server settings may prevent long operations to avoid slowing down the entire system. You will need to contact your site administrator, e.g. via the “Contact us” form in the footer of the page.

4.6. Feedback

Giving feedback is an essential component for portfolio work. You can give feedback not only on individual artefacts but on entire portfolio pages.

The author of an artefact or portfolio page decides whether you can leave comments or not. Find the comment options for:

files: when editing a file.

notes: when editing a note.

pages: in the advanced options.

4.6.1. View feedback

You can see the feedback given so far at the bottom of each portfolio page or the artefact page that contains the artefact’s metadata.

View feedback on a page

The profile picture and name of the author of the feedback is shown.

The feedback is displayed.

You can see when the feedback author wrote the feedback and also when the last change to it was made.

Feedback comments can also contain a rating which shows quickly how well the feedback author likes your page or artefact.

As page / artefact owner you see all feedback on your page. Feedback marked as private by the feedback author is only displayed to you and the feedback author. Therefore it is marked as private.

You or the feedback author can make private feedback public by clicking on the Make public button next to the feedback.

If feedback authors decide to remove their feedback, it is marked as such.

Feedback authors can attach a file to their feedback to give you longer feedback or oral or video feedback. The files that they add are placed into your personal Files area so you can use that feedback later on.

You can edit your own feedback and feedback authors can edit their feedback.

You can delete all feedback from your page. A notification about this action is sent to the feedback author which also includes the feedback text that was deleted.

As owner of a page or artefact, you receive a notification about new feedback that was placed on it.

4.6.2. Give feedback

You can give feedback on a page and individual artefacts if the page / artefact author allowed that.

Provide feedback

Click the Place feedback link at the bottom of the portfolio page or the details page of an artefact for which you want to write feedback.

Message: Write your feedback into the editor window.

Rating: If the site administrator turned on comment ratings, you can use the 5-star rating scale in addition to your written comments and / or an uploaded file.

Make public: Enable the Make public check box when you want everyone who has access to this page to see your comment. If you do not make your feedback public, only you and the page / artefact author can see your comment. This check box is ticked by default.

Attach file: Click the Browse button to attach a feedback file from your computer. This file is placed into the Files area of the author of the page.

Click the [+] link to add another file.

Click the Place feedback button to save your feedback.

Click the Cancel button to abort your changes.

Once you have placed feedback on the page, the author receives a notification about it.

Notitie

Feedback writers do not receive notifications about additional feedback made by others after they submitted theirs. Only page / artefact owners receive notifications.

4.7. Feedback for assessment

4.7.1. Submit a page or new in Mahara 1.6 collection for assessment

When you are a member of a group that allows submissions, you can submit portfolio pages and collections for feedback / assessment. This allows an instructor to view the portfolio with much of the content locked into place.

Submit a page or collection to a group

Go to the group homepage of the group in which you want to submit a page or collection. You can choose the collection from the drop-down menu under Submit a page or collection to this group.

Alternatively, you can select a page, which is not part of a collection, from the drop-down menu.

Click the Submit button to lock page content.

Notitie

You do not have to give the group permission to access your page or collection when you want to submit your page or collection for feedback or assessment. When you submit your page or collection, the group administrators and tutors are able to see them and give you feedback whereas regular group members do not have access to them.

During the feedback phase, you cannot make any changes to

files

journal posts

text boxes

links to external content

You can still edit

plans

profile information

résumé information

any external content on the source site, e.g. adding comments to a YouTube video, adding audio to a SlideShare presentation etc. or deleting the media

4.7.2. Instructor feedback

Once pages or collections have been submitted for feedback to a group, you can give feedback on them without the authors being able to change much of their content if you have the role of a tutor or group administrator in that group. You see all submitted pages and collections with a time stamp on the group’s homepage.

Submitted page or collection with time stamp

You can now give feedback on the submitted individual pages or pages in a collection and then click on the Release page / Release collection button so that the authors can continue working on them.

Provide feedback as tutor or group administrator on a submitted page

Click the Place feedback link at the bottom of the portfolio page or the details page of an artefact for which you want to write feedback.

Message: Write your feedback into the editor window.

Rating: If the site administrator turned on comment ratings, you can use the 5-star rating scale in addition to your written comments and / or an uploaded file.

Make public: Enable the Make public check box when you want everyone who has access to this page to see your comment. If you do not make your feedback public, only you and the page / artefact author can see your comment. This check box is not ticked when you give feedback on submitted pages or collections.

Attach file: Click the Browse button to attach a feedback file from your computer. This file is placed into the Files area of the author of the page.

Click the [+] link to add another file.

Click the Place feedback button to save your feedback or click the Cancel button to abort your action.

Click the Release page or Release collection button to allow the author of the page or collection to continue editing.

Once you have placed feedback on the page, the author receives a notification about it.

4.8. Tags

Tags are keywords that you can give to artefacts and pages in your portfolio to find them more easily later on.

Notitie

A site administrator must have the tag cloud enabled for you to use this feature.

4.8.1. Tag cloud

You can see your tag cloud in the sidebar when you are in the Content and Portfolio areas. Configure how many different tags you wish to display in your tag cloud in your account settings.

Tag cloud

Click on the Tags heading to be taken to all your tags.

Click on any tag to see all artefacts and pages from your portfolio area that have this tag associated.

Notitie

The more you use a tag for your files, journal entries and pages, the bigger its font size in the tag cloud.

4.8.2. My tags

On the My tags page you see all your tags and the artefacts and pages associated with them. You have a number of filter options to show only the resources that you wish to see.

My tags overview page

Sort tags alphabetically: The default view is to sort your tags alphabetically.

Sort tags by frequency: You can also sort tags by frequency showing the most frequently used tags first.

You can click on any tag and filter the artefacts and pages you have for it. The number in parentheses tells you how many times a tag occurs in your resources.

Search results for: The tag you filtered on is displayed.

Sort results by: You can sort the results by their name or creation date.

Filter results by: You can filter your results by specific artefact types or just show portfolio pages.

The title of a resource, its description if available and its associated tags are displayed.

The creation date and time as well as the type of resource is shown.

new in Mahara 1.6 Click the Edit this tag button to make changes to the tag that is currently the filter.

Click the Edit tags button to make changes to your tags.

4.8.3. Edit tags

You can edit your tags to correct spelling mistakes or delete a tag.

Edit your tags

Select a tag to edit: Select the tag that you want to edit. Once you have selected your tag, it is highlighted in bold in the list and two new boxes appear.

Name: You can provide the new name for your tag by replacing the old one. This field is mandatory.

Click the Submit button to save your change.

Alternatively, click the Delete button to delete this tag entirely. All occurrences of it will be removed.

You can also click on the My tags button to be taken back to the overview page of all your tags and their associated resources.

5. Groups

5.1. My groups

5.2. Find groups

5.3. Set up a group

5.3.1. Create a group as a user

5.3.2. Create a group as staff member or institution administrator

5.3.3. Create a group as a site administrator

5.3.4. Edit general group settings

5.4. Inside a group

5.4.1. Group homepage

5.4.2. Members

5.4.2.1. Members page

5.4.2.2. New member invitation

5.4.2.3. Group membership recommendation

5.4.3. Forums

5.4.3.1. Set up a new forum

5.4.3.2. Add a forum topic

5.4.3.3. Reply to a topic or subsequent post

5.4.3.4. Delete a post, topic or forum

5.4.3.5. Forum bulk actions

5.4.4. Pages

5.4.4.1. Group homepage

5.4.4.2. Regular group pages

5.4.5. Collections

5.4.6. Share

5.4.7. Files

5.4.8. Report

5.5. My friends

5.6. Find friends

5.6.1. Send a friend request

5.6.2. Accept a friend request

5.6.3. Deny a friend request

5.7. Institution membership

5.8. Shared pages

5.9. Topics

Groups can be used for collaboration among users as they offer the possibilities to:

discuss topics in forums

create and edit pages and collections together

share files

share pages

submit pages for assessment / feedback

Notitie

Groups can be created by every user, staff or administrators only. The site administrator decides that in Administration → Configure site → Group settings.

The Groups menu has a number of sub menus:

My groups: Displays the groups that you administer or in which you are a member. You can create new groups from here if you have the appropriate rights.

Find groups: Lists all groups in the system that you can view and allows you to join or request membership in them if groups allow that.

My friends: Displays your friends and gives you easy access to their profile pages.

Find friends: Search for users in Mahara that you may wish to add to your friends list.

Shared pages: Lists the pages that you have permission to view.

Topics: Shows the latest discussion topics in your groups.

5.1. My groups

Groups → My groups

This page lists the groups you are related to in some way. You can see the groups you own or are a member of, as well as groups you have been invited to or have asked to join.

If your site administrator allowed you to create groups yourself, you see the Create group button.

The My groups page lists all your groups

Search for a specific group by its title or description and / or choose the filters you wish to apply to view only a subset of your groups and then click the Filter button. You can filter for:

All your groups

Groups you own

Groups you are a member of

Groups you are invited to

Groups you want to join

Groups by a specific category if group categories exist.

All the groups that you have access to are listed with group title, administrator, description, group type and number of members if the administrator discloses this.

If you are a member of a controlled membership group, you cannot leave the group.

If you are a member of any other group but controlled membership, you can leave it at any time.

Click the Accept button to join a group to which you have been invited or the Decline button to decline membership in that group.

Click the Edit button when you want to update the details for a group in which you are administrator.

Click the Delete button only when you want to delete your group permanently. Group members receive a notification that the group has been deleted.

Click the Create group button when you want to set up a new group. You only see this button if the site administrator allows you to create groups.

Waarschuwing

When you delete a group, all its content and contributions from users are deleted permanently and cannot be retrieved again.

5.2. Find groups

Groups → Find groups

You see groups and get basic information about them. If a group administrator decided to hide a group, you will not be able to see it unless you have been invited to it.

A list of groups and certain actions you can perform

Search for a certain group using a word / words from its title or description. You can search either all groups, groups you are a member of or groups you are not in. You can also limit your search results to a certain group category if group categories exist.

You can find out more about a group by

clicking on the group name to see the group homepage.

clicking on the name of the group administrator to get to their profile page.

clicking on the member link to see who is already a member of this group if the administrator discloses this.

If you want to become a member of an open group, click the Join this group button, and you will be a member immediately.

If you want to join a group that needs the approval of the group administrator, click the Request to join this group button next to the group. The administrator will receive a notification and decide about admitting you to the group.

If you have been invited to a group, either Accept or Decline the membership invitation.

Notitie

Usually, you do not see forums, group pages, group collections and group files unless you are a member of a group. If a group is publicly available, you do see the forum discussions.

5.3. Set up a group

Groups → My groups → Create group

You can create different groups depending on your role.

All users

Open membership: Any user of the site can become a member simply by visiting your group page and clicking the Join button.

Request membership Any user can request to join your group. However, as owner you can choose to accept or decline this request. The requesting member will be notified of your decision automatically.

In addition, staff and administrators can create groups with Controlled membership:

You can add users directly to your group.

The members cannot leave this group.

You can assign tutors to the group. They can give feedback on submitted pages, but not administer group members.

Group members can submit portfolio pages or collections for feedback / assessment. These pages are locked until released by a group administrator or tutor.

Notitie

The site administrator can limit the creation of groups to users with staff and / or administrator rights. If you cannot create a group, you will most likely not have the appropriate permission and will have to contact your site administrator, e.g. via the Contact us form to enquire about the process of having a group set up.

5.3.1. Create a group as a user

If you are allowed to create a group, you see the Create group button on the My groups overview page.

Create a group as a user

Group name: Provide a name for your group. This field is mandatory.

Group description: Briefly describe what your group is about.

Open: Check this box if you want to create an open membership group if you want users to join the group without approval from group administrators.

Request: Check this box if you wish to create a request membership group. Users will have to send a membership request that requires group administrator approval. Open and request membership groups are mutually exclusive.

Friend invitations: Check this box if you want to allow group members to invite friends to join the group. Regardless of this setting, group administrators can always send invitations to anyone. If the friends accept, they will be added automatically to the group.

Recommendations: Check this box if you want to allow members to send a recommendation for joining this group to their friends from a button on the group homepage. If a request membership group has been recommended and the friends are interested in it, they would still need the approval of the group administrator to join. Friend invitations and recommendations are mutually exclusive options.

Create and edit pages: Decide who shall be able to create and edit pages in the group:

All group members

Everyone except ordinary members, i.e. group administrators and tutors depending on the group type

Group administrators only

Publicly viewable group: Choose this option if anybody shall have access to this group. You only see this setting if the site administrator allowed you to have it. Anybody online can see the group homepage and the discussion forum(s). Depending on the membership visibility, they may also see group members. Only members of the groups can see the group’s pages, unless they have been made public, and the files area.

new in Mahara 1.6 Participation report: Tick this check box if you as group administrator want to view a report displaying all group pages and those that have been shared with the group and see who commented on them.

new in Mahara 1.6 Start date: As group administrator you can decide when regular group members shall be able to create and edit content, forum discussions, pages and collections in the group. Untick the check box Not specified to enter a date and time from when editing is allowed. Group administrators can always edit content in a group.

new in Mahara 1.6 End date: You can allow the editing of group content for regular members up to a certain time. After that they will only be able to view forum discussions, pages, collections and files, but not edit them. Untick the check box Not specified to enter a date and time until when editing is allowed. Group administrators can always edit content in a group.

Group category: Choose a category if you want to associate your group to one, allowing you to filter groups on the My groups and Find groups page more easily. This setting is only available if the site administrator turned it on.

Shared page notification: This check box has a check mark per default. Whenever somebody shares a page with the group, all group members receive a notification. You may want to uncheck this setting in very large groups where lots of pages are shared but members do not have to be notified.

Click the Save group button to finish creating your group, or click the Cancel button to abort the group creation process.

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The group name that you choose does not have to be unique. Other groups can have the same name. In order to distinguish them more easily, you can add a group description.

5.3.2. Create a group as staff member or institution administrator

In addition to the group settings that a regular user has, institution staff and administrators have a few more options.

Additional options for staff and institution administrators

Controlled: Create a controlled group if you wish to add users who cannot leave the group. This is a useful setting for course groups where you do not want members to leave.

Roles: Choose whether you have only members and administrators or also tutors. The latter can provide feedback and release pages when page submissions are allowed, but they cannot change group settings.

Allow submissions: Use this option to allow group members to submit pages for feedback / assessment. These pages and a number of artefacts in them are locked until released by a group administrator or tutor.

Hide group: Use this option to not list this group on the Find groups page.

Hide membership: Use this option to hide the group’s membership listing from non-members.

Hide membership from members: Use this option to hide the group’s membership listing from members as well. Only group administrators can see the members listed. Administrators are still shown on the group homepage.

5.3.3. Create a group as a site administrator

When you have site administrator rights, you have yet another setting when you create a group: You can choose to add new users to a group automatically. That way, any new user on the site becomes a member of this group automatically in the setting Auto-add users.

Add users to a group automatically

Notitie

This is a great setting when you want to set up a group which all users should join in order to participate in forum discussions etc. On mahara.org [http://mahara.org] this is used to make every user a member of the “Community” group in which discussions around Mahara take place.

5.3.4. Edit general group settings

You can start out editing a group’s settings from three places by clicking on the Edit button on:

the My groups page

the Find groups page

the group homepage

You are then taken to the same screen as if you were creating a group and make the necessary changes.

Waarschuwing

You can change the group type to a different one. Please be careful if you do so especially when you have allowed submissions of pages and collections to the group. If users have submitted portfolio pages or collections to that group, they remain locked when you untick the setting Allow submissions, and you cannot release the pages until you enable that setting again.

new in Mahara 1.6 If the site administrator activated clean URLs, your group (homepage) has a human-readable URL which you can change to a certain extend.

Change the URL for your group homepage

Choose the name for your group (homepage) if you do not like the default one. It must be 3-30 characters long. You can only use lowercase letters from a-z, numbers and - (hyphen). Your group will then be available via a URL like http://sitename/group/name-of-the-group, for example: http://mahara-university.org/group/portfolio-task-force.

Waarschuwing

Though you can change the URL to your group at any point, you should not do that because people who already know the URL to your group will not be able to access it anymore after you have changed it.

The original, internal Mahara URL, e.g. http://mahara-university.org/group/view.php?id=456 will still work.

5.4. Inside a group

Notitie

It depends on your role in the group whether you can access / change certain functionalities that you see in the screenshots and described in the text.

5.4.1. Group homepage

Groups → Name of the group → About

The group homepage is the central space for a group. There you can get a quick overview of the group and reach all the places that you wish to take a look at in a group. You see a few things per default on the group homepage. The items displayed on the group homepage do not only depend on the default settings but also the options chosen when the group was created.

Sample group homepage

Group name

When you are a member in the group, you see your status and whether you can leave the group or not. If you are an administrator of the group, you see the Edit and Delete buttons.

If the group administrator allowed group members to recommend the group to friends, you see the Recommend to friends button. If the group administrator allowed users to invite friends, you see the Invite friends button.

Group navigation: You see all the areas that you have access to in the group. If you are not allowed to edit pages, you will not see the “Share” tab, for example.

Basic information about this group:

Group characteristics: Important group attributes, e.g. open or request group, possibility of having submissions etc.

Group administrators: Click on their names to view their profile pages.

Group category: Category to which this group belongs; great for filtering groups on My groups or Find groups.

Created: Creation date of the group.

new in Mahara 1.6 Editable: If the group administrator defined a time frame within which group content is only editable for group members, it is displayed here. If the group administrator did not set a start and / or end date, this setting will not be shown.

Statistics on the number of group members, pages, files, folders and new in Mahara 1.6 forums, forum topics and posts.

Latest forum posts: A list of the most recent forum posts and a link to the forums.

Group pages: A list of group pages that have been created in the group.

If you are allowed to copy a group page into your own portfolio, you will see the Copy page button next to that group page.

Pages shared with this group by others: View pages that members have shared with the group.

Submit a page or collection to this group: If the group allows page or new in Mahara 1.6 collection submissions, select the page or collection that you want to submit for assessment / feedback. You do not have to share the page or collection with the group. The administrator (and tutor) can view the page or collection once it has been submitted.

Members: A list of select group members and a link to the full list if the group administrator did not hide the group membership.

If you are a group administrator, you can put other blocks on the group homepage. Check the blocks in pages context for a list of them.

5.4.2. Members

Groups → Name of the group → Members

5.4.2.1. Members page

Group members page as seen by a group administrator

On the group members page, a group admin can:

Invite multiple users to the group at once or add multiple users in bulk if it is a controlled membership group.

Search for group members by putting their name in the search box and then clicking the Search button. You can combine the name search with the sorting options that follow.

new in Mahara 1.6 Sort group members by selecting one of the following options and then clicking the Search button:

display administrators first

sort everyone alphabetically from A to Z

sort everyone alphabetically from Z to A

sort everyone chronologically starting with those who joined first

sort everyone chronologically starting with those who joined last

View basic information about group members:

their name

their role

their profile introduction text

their group joining date

Change the role of a user.

Remove a user from the group.

new in Mahara 1.6 Decide how many members shall be shown per page.

If you are a regular group member, you are not able to invite or add people from the members page, and you cannot change the role or remove a user from the group.

5.4.2.2. New member invitation

A group administrator can always invite any user to a group from the Members tab by clicking on the link send multiple invitations at once. If the group administrator allowed users to invite friends, they can do so via the Invite friends button on the group homepage.

Invite other users to a group

Potential members: Select the users you want to invite to the group.

If you are a group administrator, you see all users on the site.

If you are a regular group member, you only see your friends.

Search: You can also search for users in the search box if there are too many names listed.

Add the users to the list Users to be invited by clicking on the right-arrow button right-arrow.

If you put a person into the box for users to be invited by accident, you can remove them from that list by clicking on them.

Then click on the left-arrow button left-arrow, and they are removed from the list.

When you have all the users you wish to invite to this group, click the Submit button.

The invited users will receive a notification. The group will also be listed on the users’ My groups page where they can accept or decline group membership.

Notitie

You can also double-click on a name to move it from one side to the other.

5.4.2.3. Group membership recommendation

If the group administrator allowed membership recommendations when creating or editing a group, group members can recommend the group to their friends by clicking on the Recommend to friends button on the group homepage.

Recommend a group to friends

Potential members: Select the friends to whom you want to recommend this group.

Search: You can also search for your friends in the search box if there are too many names listed.

Add the users to the list Users who will be sent a recommendation by clicking on the right-arrow button right-arrow.

If you put a person into the box for recommendations by accident, you can remove them from that list by clicking on them.

Then click on the left-arrow button left-arrow, and they are removed from the list.

When you have all the users to whom you want to send a recommendation, click the Submit button.

The users will receive a notification and can then decide to join the group.

Notitie

You can also double-click on a name to move it from one side to the other.

5.4.3. Forums

Groups → Name of the group → Forums

The forums are visible to all group members. If you create a public group, anybody online will be able to see the forum discussions. However, they would need to log in to participate. Forums in public groups receive an RSS feed to enable users to subscribe to the discussion forum, e.g. the mahara.org community forums [http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/index.php?group=1].

Group forum overview page

If you have appropriate rights, you can create a new forum by clicking on the New forum button.

Forum: Name and brief description of the forum.

Moderators: View the forum moderators (if appointed).

Group administrators: View the group administrators.

Topics: Number of forum topics in each forum.

If you want to receive notifications about new forum posts, you can subscribe to a forum via the Subscribe button. If you already receive notifications, you will see the Unsubscribe button to have the option to not receive updates anymore.

If you are a group administrator, you see the Edit button edit for making changes to the forum settings.

If you are a group administrator, you see the Delete button delete for deleting the forum and all its topics.

5.4.3.1. Set up a new forum

A group administrator can set up forums in a group.

Basic set up of a forum

Click on the New forum button to set up a new forum.

Title: Give your new forum a title.

Description: Write a brief description of your forum. This will appear when the forum is listed under the Forum tab making it easier for users to decide whether they want to look at it or not.

Forum indent mode: Specify how the topics in this forum should be indented.

Fully expand: Indentation is used to indicate the replies to individual posts. There is no limit to the level of indentation.

Expand to maximum: Indentation to indicate the replies to individual post specifying the maximum level of indentation (pops up once this option is chosen). All replies beyond the chosen level are not indented further.

No indents: There is no indentation of replies to individual posts, but the forum structure is flat.

Click the Save button to make these changes or continue on to the Settings.

Besides these basic settings, there are additional ones that the administrator can decide on.

Choose further settings in the forum

Automatically subscribe users: Choose whether group users will be subscribed to this forum automatically. When subscribed, users will receive notifications when new posts and replies are made in the forum. Users will have the option to unsubscribe if they do not want to be notified.

Order: A default position for your forum is chosen upon its creation - after the last existing forum. Here you may position it elsewhere in the list of forums. Click the radio button above or below a certain forum to position it before or after it.

Moderators: Choose one or more moderators for your forum. They can edit and delete topics and posts as well as open, close, set and unset topics as sticky. Thus, they can perform some administrative functions without having to receive full group administrator rights.

Select one or more users from the list of Potential moderators on the left or search for a person.

Click the right-arrow button right-arrow to add the user(s) to the Current moderators.

To remove a moderator, select the user in the Current moderators list on the right and click the left-arrow button left-arrow to remove this user.

Who can create topics: Decide who in your group is allowed to create topics within a forum. If set to “All group members”, any group member can create new topics and reply to existing topics. If set to “Moderators and group administrators”, only moderators and group administrators can start new topics, but once topics exist, all users can post replies to them.

Close new topics: If checked, all new topics in this forum will be closed by default. Only moderators and group administrators can reply to closed topics. This is a setting that may be useful for a forum that is solely used for announcements.

Click the Save button to save the settings for the forum or use click the Cancel button to retain the previous settings.

5.4.3.2. Add a forum topic

When you have the right to add a forum topic, you see the New topic button when you click on a forum.

Add a new topic to a forum

Notitie

An administrator also always has the buttons Edit forum and Delete forum available to make changes to the forum set up.

Add a new forum topic

Subject: Type a concise description of what you wish to discuss in this forum thread. This field is mandatory.

Message: Elaborate on the topic. This field is mandatory.

Sticky: Administrator-only setting to keep the topic at the top of the list of forum topics in the current forum.

Closed: Administrator-only setting to prevent others from responding to this post. Moderators and administrators can still post replies.

Click the Post button to send off your discussion topic, or click Cancel to abort your action.

Notitie

When you write your forum topic, i.e. your first post, and any other subsequent post, you have formatting options at your hands in the visual editor (when it is enabled). It also allows you to insert images into your post. However, you should not copy the URL of one of your images from your Files area. This image is only displayed to you unless it is also included in a page that you made available to this group, logged-in users or the public. Permissions on artefacts are governed by the permissions set on the page(s) in which they are included.

In some groups you may be able to upload files into the group thus allowing every group member to see the file. You could link it then in your forum post but must be aware that any group member could delete the image.

Once you have finished writing your forum topic, it is displayed in the list of forum topics. Others can see it immediately. The administrator and moderator of the forum can edit or delete a topic at any time. Regular members can edit their topics up to a certain number of minutes after writing the post. The site administrator defines that time in the forum post delay.

Posts in a forum topic

The title of the forum.

The title of the forum topic.

The profile picture and name of the person who wrote the post. The name is linked to the profile page.

The number of posts of this person in all groups.

The date and time of the forum post.

The post itself.

The Reply button to comment on the post.

The titles of subsequent posts are clickable and give you the link to this post. That allows you to jump to this post directly and view it at the top of the page.

If you are the author of a forum post, you see the Edit button and can make changes to your post at any time. Group administrators and forum moderators can always edit and delete any forum post besides replying to it.

The person starting the forum topic and the group administrator as well as forum moderator have the Edit topic button to make changes to the initial post. Group administrators and forum moderators can also click the Delete topic button to delete this forum thread.

new in Mahara 1.6 If your forum topic has more than 10 posts, the posts are paginated and 10 posts per page are shown. You can jump to other posts in the topic by clicking on a page number.

Notitie

There are no notifications sent when you edit or delete a forum post. If you wish others to know about your changes, you should write a new post instead of editing an existing one.

5.4.3.3. Reply to a topic or subsequent post

Everybody can reply to a forum topic or other posts therein unless the moderator or administrator had closed the topic. The replies are intended to make it easier to see to which comment you reply except in forum topics that do not use indentation.

Reply to a forum post

Click the Reply button below the forum post to which you wish to reply. The forum post that you are replying to is displayed beneath your reply window making it easier for you to refer to it if necessary.

Subject Set a different subject if you want to by clicking on the link Click to set a subject. This is most often not necessary and usually only used if the topic evolves into a different discussion. However, in such cases, usually it is good to open a new forum topic instead.

Message: Write your reply.

Click the Post button to save your response or the Cancel button to abort your forum post.

Notitie

Once you have saved your post, you may have time to edit it before it is sent to the forum subscribers. That depends on the site settings for the forum post delay. If you can edit your post, you see the Edit button. In the edit window, you also see how much time you have left until your post is sent.

When you, but also a moderator or an administrator, edit your forum post after this time, it is stated when and by whom the editing was done under “Edits to this post”.

5.4.3.4. Delete a post, topic or forum

A moderator or administrator can always edit or delete a single forum post, a topic or an entire forum.

Waarschuwing

Once a forum post, topic or forum is deleted, this action cannot be reversed and the content is gone forever.

5.4.3.5. Forum bulk actions

Group administrators and forum moderators can perform bulk actions on forums in a group.

Forum bulk actions

Select the topics for which you want to perform the same action.

Choose the action that you wish to perform from the drop-down menu. You can set all selected topics to

sticky: They will sit at the beginning of all other forum topics.

unsticky: They will be placed into the correct chronological order of their last post.

close: Only the group administrator and forum moderator can add posts to these topics.

open: Everyone can post to these topics again.

Click the Update all selected topics button to save your changes.

5.4.4. Pages

Groups → Name of the group → Pages

Members of a group have access to certain pages. These can be:

pages that are created in the group

pages that are shared with the group

The latter are pages that a user makes accessible to the group from his personal pages by sharing them with the group. Members of the group cannot edit these pages.

Depending on the group settings, either only administrators (and tutors if it is a controlled group) or also regular group members can create and edit group pages.

Waarschuwing

Everybody who can edit a group page can add or delete blocks on that page. There is no version tracking that shows who has edited what. Users should trust each other when collaborating on pages together. Otherwise, it may be better if they only shared pages with a group.

5.4.4.1. Group homepage

The group homepage can only be edited by the group administrator. It contains a number of default blocks. You can add more blocks to it to customize the page for the group. Please refer to the overview of blocks for a list of all the blocks that you can use on the group homepage.

5.4.4.2. Regular group pages

Creating, editing and sharing a group page is very similar to creating, editing and sharing a portfolio page. Not all blocks are available when editing a group page in the page editor though due to the different context. Please refer to the overview of blocks for a list of all the blocks that you can use in a group page.

When you leave a comment on a group page, only group administrators (and tutors if it is a controlled group) can delete feedback on pages.

Zie ook

For submitting a page to a group to receive instructor feedback, please refer to the feedback section.

new in Mahara 1.6 Similarly to group homepages and users’ portfolio pages, group pages can also have human-readable URLs if the site administrator activated clean URLs.

When you create or edit a group page, you can decide whether only the administrator shall have the right to edit the page. With this setting you can allow the general editing of pages in the group, but still be able to lock down certain pages.

Lock a group page for editing by the administrator only

5.4.5. new in Mahara 1.6 Collections

Groups → Name of the group → Collections

Depending on the group settings, either only administrators (and tutors) or also regular group members can create and edit group collections.

Waarschuwing

Everybody who can edit a group collection can add or delete pages and content in them. There is no version tracking that shows who has edited what. Users should trust each other when collaborating on pages and collections together. Otherwise, it may be better if they only shared pages and collections with a group.

Zie ook

The adding, editing and managing of group collections work like in your personal porfolio collections.

5.4.6. Share

Groups → Name of the group → Share

If you are allowed to edit pages and collections in a group, you can see the Share tab.

Zie ook

The sharing of pages and collections work like in your personal porfolio. The group in which the page or collection was created is added automatically to the access permissions.

5.4.7. Files

Groups → Name of the group → Files

The Files area in a group holds all files that are uploaded by group members who have the permission to do so. The uploading process works like the one in the personal files.

The site administrator can set a group file quota to restrict unlimited uploading of files. The group quota is displayed in the sidebar when you are in the Files area.

In contrast to the files in your personal files area, there is an additional permissions setting:

Setting permissions on a group file

When you have the permission to upload a file, you can also determine additional permissions of who can view the file and edit its metadata. An administrator has all rights, but you can restrict them to regular group members or tutors.

View: You can see the file in the group files area and add it to a page.

Edit: You can edit the file name, description, tags and permissions.

Publish: You can include a group file in your personal portfolio pages.

Notitie

The owner of / group member uploading a file retains access to the file even if other group members are not able to use the file.

5.4.8. new in Mahara 1.6 Report

Groups → Name of the group → Report

When you are an administrator of a group, you can switch on the participation report in the group settings. The report provides you with information on who commented on what pages that were created in or shared with the group.

Participation report for a group

Pages shared with this group: List of all the pages that people have shared with this group.

Shared by: Displays the author of the page.

Members involved: Shows the group members who have commented on the pages publicly.

Non-members involved: Schows the users who have commented on the pages publicly but are not members of the group.

Next to each person who commented on a page is the count for the number of comments they have left on that page.

The total count for the comments by members and non-members is displayed.

Pages owned by this group: List of all the pages that were created within the group.

Notitie

You can sort each of the columns.

5.5. My friends

Groups → My friends

Your friends are a special group of users. You can share your portfolio pages or collections easily with them and get in touch with them quickly by going to this page. They differ from a regular group in that they do not have discussion forums, pages or shared files. If you do wish to have access to those with your friends, you have to create a regular group for them.

You can request other users’ friendship in a couple of ways:

Go to their profile page and click the Request friendship link.

Go to the Find friends page and search for potential friends there.

My friends page

If you have a lot of friends and pending friend requests, you can filter them by showing only the category of friends you wish to view:

All friends: Shows you all current and pending friends

Current friends: Shows you all users whose friendship request you have approved.

Pending friends: Shows you all users who wish to be your friend, but whom you have not yet approved.

You see more information about this friend:

View the profile picture.

Click on the name of your friend to reach their profile page.

The pages of this user to which you have access are listed.

Read the introduction that this user has provided under Content → Profile → Introduction.

Display of the institution membership of this user.

For users whose friendship request you have not yet approved, you still see their profile picture and the reason why they want to become your friend. They have the word pending next to their name.

If a user is in the pending state, approve or deny the friendship request.

Send a message to the user if you wish to do so. this is only possible if the user allowed that. You can change your personal settings for messages from other users in your account settings.

If you no longer want to have a user on your friend list, you can remove them by clicking on the Remove from friends link.

If you are a group administrator in a group that one of your friends or potential friends belongs to, you can edit their group membership directly here.

Notitie

When you click on the institution name that is listed for a friend, you see a list of institution staff and administrators. You can contact administrators directly from this page by clicking on the Send message link.

The institution membership is only visible if your site administrator set up multiple institutions on Mahara. Users on a site with multiple institutions who do not have one displayed do not belong to any institution.

5.6. Find friends

Groups → Find friends

If you want to establish your social network, you can use the Find friends page to find people to connect to. An alphabetical list of all users in your institution(s) or on the entire system is provided.

Find friends page

Use the search box to search for a name of a user. Your search results are limited to users from your institution(s). Choose the option “Everyone” to search for any user on the system.

All results are listed. You can click on the name to view that user’s profile page. You also see if a user is already a friend of yours.

You see more information about this user and can take more actions:

View the institution(s) of which the user is a member.

Send this user a message without requesting friendship.

Send this user a friend request.

Edit this user’s group membership for a group of which you are an administrator.

Notitie

You can prevent others from sending you messages or friend requests if you disabled these options in your account settings.

5.6.1. Send a friend request

You can send a friend request from the Find friends page by clicking on the Send friend request link next to the user you want to be friends with.

Send friend request

Give a reason why want to request friendship with this user. This reason can be important if the other person does not know you well and thus may likely reject your request.

Click the Request friendship button to send off your friend request or click the Cancel button to abort your action.

Notitie

You do not need to request the friendship of other users in order to see their portfolio pages or collections. Access permissions are independent of being friends on Mahara.

5.6.2. Accept a friend request

When another user has requested friendship, you receive a notification which is shown in the login box.

Pending friend request

When you click on the friend request, you are taken to your My friends page. All your pending friend requests are shown.

View all your pending friend requests

View the name of the person requesting friendship and a short description if the user had written one in Content → Profile → Introduction. You can click on the name and view the profile page.

Read the reason why this user requests friendship if the user provided a reason.

Click the Approve request link to approve the friend request. Once you approve a friend request, you appear immediately on that user’s My friends page and the user on yours.

Click the Deny request link to deny friendship.

Click the Send message button to communicate with the user before making your decision about this friend request.

5.6.3. Deny a friend request

When somebody sent you a friend request, go to the My friends page to view your pending requests.

Deny a friend request

Next to the person whose request you wish to deny, click the Deny request link.

Provide a reason for your denial if you wish to give one.

Click the Deny friend request button to send your message or click the Cancel button to abort your action.

The user receives a notification which includes your reason for denial.

5.7. Institution membership

Groups → Institution membership

You can see in which institution(s) you are a member when you go to Groups → Institution membership. You may be able to leave your current institution and join other institutions if they allow self-registration. If you cannot leave your institution, you must ask your institution administrator to remove you.

Waarschuwing

Leaving an institution does not mean that your account is deleted. You keep your content and portfolio pages when you move from one institution to another as long as you have your account. Institution administrators should not delete your account when they want to remove you from their institution.

Check on your institution membership

Memberships: Here you see to which institution(s) you belong. Click on the Leave institution button to remove yourself from an institution. If you do not see this button next to an institution, you cannot remove yourself but must ask an institution administrator to do so.

Requests: If you have already requested membership in an institution, it will be listed here. You must wait for an institution administrator to approve your request. If you wish to cancel a request, click the Cancel request button.

Request membership of an institution: Choose the institution from the drop-down menu that you wish to join.

You can provide an ID if you have one for this institution, but that is optional.

Click the Send request button, and the institution administrator is notified of your request and will deal with it.

5.8. Shared pages

On this page you can list the most recently modified or commented on pages that have been shared with:

you directly

you as a friend

you as a member of a group

you as a member of an institution

all logged-in users

the public (excluding secret URLs)

The default search options are:

Search the title, description and tags of a page.

Sort the results by last update or last comment.

Show results of pages that have been shared with you directly, as a friend or a member of a group.

You can adjust these default settings in the advanced options.

The Shared pages are a quick way to find the pages that you may be most interested in.

You cannot add or delete anything from this page. It is a display page only.

Shared pages list

Search by title, description and tags of a page per default. More search options are provided under Advanced options.

Search within: Limit your search results to the word(s) found in the title, description or tags of a page or search only within tags.

Sort results by: You can sort the results by the following options:

Last update or comment

Last update

Owner

Title

Shared with: Select the group of people with whom the page(s) you search for must have been shared. You can select multiple options:

Me

Friends

My groups

My institutions

Logged-in users

Public - you only see this option if the site / institution administrator allowed public pages

The title and author of the page are linked for you to jump to them quickly. You also see when the page was last updated.

The description of the page as well as the tags are displayed if the author provided them.

Tags on your own pages are linked for you to easily jump to them on the My tags page.

You see the number of comments on each page.

The beginning of the latest comment on the page as well as its author and the date are displayed.

By clicking on the View comment link, you can read the entire comment.

5.9. Topics

Topics is a list of the discussion topics from all the groups in which you are a member. The topics are sorted in reverse chronological order starting with the latest comment.

The latest posts in discussion forums

The title of the forum topic as well as the group and the forum in which this topic is discussed are shown. They are all linked so that you can easily go to them.

The number of posts in this discussion topic is displayed.

The beginning of the latest comment in the topic is displayed as well as the name of the author (linked to the author’s profile page) and the date and time when the forum post was made.

The total number of forum topics is displayed. When there are many forum topics, 10 are displayed per page and the rest can be reached via a navigation bar.

6. Blokken

Blocks for internal and external artefacts are used to compose portfolio pages and group pages. There is a large number of blocks available in Mahara. More can be used when plugins [http://wiki.mahara.org/Plugins] are installed.

6.1. Bestanden, afbeeldingen en video

6.1.1. File(s) to download

6.1.2. Een map

6.1.3. Afbeeldinggalerij

6.1.3.1. Image gallery with uploaded images

6.1.3.2. Image gallery from external images

6.1.4. Some HTML

6.1.5. Een Afbeelding

6.1.6. Ingebedde media

6.2. Blogs

6.2.1. Display an entire journal

6.2.2. Display one journal entry

6.2.3. Display recent journal entries

6.2.4. Display tagged journal entries

6.3. Algemeen

6.3.1. Creative Commons license

6.3.2. Navigation

6.3.3. Plans

6.3.4. Recent forum posts

6.3.5. Text box

6.3.5.1. Add a new text box

6.3.5.2. Re-use text from an existing text box

6.3.6. Inbox

6.3.7. Latest pages

6.3.8. Watched pages

6.3.9. Group info

6.3.10. Group members

6.3.11. Group pages

6.4. Profiel

6.4.1. Contact information

6.4.2. My friends

6.4.3. My groups

6.4.4. My pages

6.4.5. Profile information

6.4.6. Wall

6.5. Curriculum Vitae

6.5.1. Display your entire résumé

6.5.2. Display one résumé field

6.6. Externe inhoud

6.6.1. Externe feed

6.6.2. Externe media

6.6.3. Google Apps

6.7. Blocks in various pages

6.7.1. Bestanden, afbeeldingen en video

6.7.2. Blogs

6.7.3. Algemeen

6.7.4. Profiel

6.7.5. Curriculum Vitae

6.7.6. Externe inhoud

6.1. Bestanden, afbeeldingen en video

These artefacts are internal Mahara ones to display:

links to files that you have uploaded

folders that contain files

show images

embed audio and video files

6.1.1. File(s) to download

Select files that viewers of your portfolio can download.

Configure the File(s) to download block

Block title: Choose a title for your files block.

Files area: Choose from which files area you would like to select a file:

My files: You see all the folders and files that you have created.

Group files: You see all the folders and files that you are allowed to publish.

Institution files: If you are an institution administrator, you will see institution folders and files.

Site files: If you are a site administrator, you will see all site folders and files. Otherwise, you can only see the ones that are in the folder public in the Site files.

Upload file: You do not have to go back to your Files area in Content in order to upload a file. You can do so directly from this screen.

new in Mahara 1.6 If the site administrator turned on the image resizing option, you can decide whether you want to have your images resized if they are larger than the specified dimensions. This option is recommended to save space in your portfolio.

Folder path: The breadcrumbs show in which folder you are currently.

You can still edit any component of the file, i.e. its file name, description and tags by clicking on the Edit button.

Choose the file or files you wish to display by clicking on the Select button.

You can also still select files (within folders) that have been submitted in another portfolio page.

Click the Remove button to not display a specific file in this block anymore.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Notitie

You cannot re-order files once you have selected them. You would need to remove them and select them again in the correct order.

Waarschuwing

When you place group, institution or site files into a page, beware that these files may not be available at some point anymore when the person in charge deletes them.

When the block is placed on the portfolio page, the following information is displayed:

file name

file description

size

upload date

a link to more details

Details about files that can be downloaded.

When users click on the Details link, they are taken to the details page for that particular file and see some more metadata.

More details about a file that can be downloaded.

The title of the page in which the artefact appears is linked.

The author of the page is displayed and a link to the profile page provided.

The name of the file is displayed.

The name of the file is displayed again but with a link and a file icon.

Additional metadata is displayed for the file:

file type

description

owner

creation date

last modified date: for meta data

size

download link

If the owner of the file allowed comments, you can place feedback directly on the file.

You can also report this file if it contains objectionable content by clicking on the Report objectionable material link.

You can print the metadata page via the Print link.

You can add the page in which the artefact appears to your watchlist by clicking on the Add page to watchlist link.

6.1.2. Een map

Select a folder to display all files within it as links on your page.

Configure the Folder block

Block title: If you leave the title blank, the title of the folder that you choose to display will be used.

Files area: Choose from which files area you would like to select a folder:

My files: You see all the folders and files that you have created.

Group files: You see all the folders and files that you are allowed to publish.

Institution files: If you are an institution administrator, you will see institution folders and files.

Site files: If you are a site administrator, you will see all site folders and files. Otherwise, you can only see the ones that are in the folder public in the Site files.

Folder path: The breadcrumbs show in which folder you are currently.

You can edit any component of the folder, i.e. its name, description and tags by clicking on the Edit button.

Choose the folder you wish to display by clicking on the Select button.

You can also still select folders that have been submitted in another portfolio page.

Click the Remove button if you wish to revert your choice.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Waarschuwing

When you place a folder with group, institution or site files into a page, beware that these files may not be available at some point anymore when the person in charge deletes them.

6.1.3. Afbeeldinggalerij

Select a folder with images or individual images to show in a gallery or embed an external image gallery.

6.1.3.1. Image gallery with uploaded images

Configure the Image gallery block with internal images

Block title: Choose a title for your image gallery block.

Image selection: You can choose to display all images from a specific folder or you can select the images individually.

Files area: Choose from which files area you would like to select an image:

My files: You see all the folders and files that you have created.

Group files: You see all the folders and files that you are allowed to publish.

Institution files: If you are an institution administrator, you will see institution folders and files.

Site files: If you are a site administrator, you will see all site folders and files. Otherwise, you can only see the ones that are in the folder public in the Site files.

Folder path: The breadcrumbs show in which folder you are currently.

Name: The name of a folder or file is displayed.

Description: If you provided a description for your folder or file, you can see it.

Tags: The tags that you used are displayed and linked. If you click on a tag, you will be taken to the My tags page.

Click the Edit button to change any component of the folder, i.e. its name, description and tags. If you have a folder or file included in a page that you submitted for feedback, you will not be able to edit the file.

Click the Select button to choose the folder or file you wish to display in your image gallery.

Click the Remove button if you want to revert your selection.

Style: Decide to show all selected images as thumbnails or as slideshow where you only see one image at a time. If you select the option “Thumbnails (square)”, all your images will be displayed in the same size as thumbnails.

Width: Specify the width (in pixels) for your images. The images are scaled to this width.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Notitie

If you selected to display an entire folder in your image gallery, new images that you upload to that folder are added to your gallery automatically.

Waarschuwing

When you place group, institution or site files into a page, beware that these files may not be available at some point anymore when the person in charge deletes them.

6.1.3.2. Image gallery from external images

Configure the Image gallery block with external images

Block title: Choose a title for your image gallery block.

Image selection: Select the option “Display images from external gallery”.

Gallery URL or RSS: Copy the link to the external gallery and past it into the text box. You can embed the following external galleries:

Flickr, vb. http://www.flickr.com/photos/12345678@N01/sets/98765432123456789/

Panoramio, vb. http://www.panoramio.com/user/123456

Photobucket, vb. http://s1234.photobucket.com/albums/ee123/username/ or http://s1234.photobucket.com/albums/ee123/username/AlbumName/

Picasa, vb. http://picasaweb.google.com/user.name/AlbumName#

Windows Live Photo Gallery, vb. http://cid-123456ab7890cd12.photos.live.com/self.aspx/AlbumName/photo.jpg

Style: Decide to show all selected images as thumbnails or as slideshow where you only see one image at a time. If you select the option “Thumbnails (square)”, all your images will be displayed in the same size as thumbnails.

Width: Specify the width (in pixels) for your images. The images are scaled to this width.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Notitie

To use Flickr, the site administrator has to provide a valid API key.

To use Photobucket, the site administrator has to provide a valid API key and a secret API key.

For Windows Live Photo Gallery to work properly, the link to one of the photos inside the album must be copied and pasted into the text box in order to show the entire album.

6.1.4. Some HTML

Display the content of an HTML file in a page.

Configure the HTML block

Block title: Choose a title for your block.

Files area: Choose from which files area you would like to select an HTML file:

My files: You see all the folders and files that you have created.

Group files: You see all the folders and files that you are allowed to publish.

Institution files: If you are an institution administrator, you will see institution folders and files.

Site files: If you are a site administrator, you will see all site folders and files. Otherwise, you can only see the ones that are in the folder public in the Site files.

Upload file: You do not have to go back to your Files area in Content in order to upload a file. You can do so directly from this screen.

Folder path: The breadcrumbs show in which folder you are currently.

Name: The name of a folder or file is displayed.

Description: If you provided a description for your folder or file, you can see it.

Tags: The tags that you used are displayed and linked. If you click on a tag, you will be taken to the My tags page.

Click the Edit button to change any component of a folder or file, i.e. its name, description and tags. If you have a folder or file included in a page that you submitted for feedback, you will not be able to edit them.

Click the Select button to choose the HTML file you wish to display in the block.

Click the Remove button if you want to revert your selection.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Notitie

You can only display a self-contained HTML file in a page, but not an entire site because the links to the files are not retained correctly when you upload files.

Waarschuwing

When you place group, institution or site files into a page, beware that these files may not be available at some point anymore when the person in charge deletes them.

6.1.5. Een Afbeelding

Display a single image in a block.

Configure the Image block

Block title: Choose a title for your block.

Files area: Choose from which files area you would like to select an image:

My files: You see all the folders and files that you have created.

Group files: You see all the folders and files that you are allowed to publish.

Institution files: If you are an institution administrator, you will see institution folders and files.

Site files: If you are a site administrator, you will see all site folders and files. Otherwise, you can only see the ones that are in the folder public in the Site files.

Upload file: You do not have to go back to your Files area in Content in order to upload a file. You can do so directly from this screen.

new in Mahara 1.6 If the site administrator turned on the image resizing option, you can decide whether you want to have your images resized if they are larger than the specified dimensions. This option is recommended to save space in your portfolio.

Folder path: The breadcrumbs show in which folder you are currently.

Name: The name of a folder or file is displayed.

Description: If you provided a description for your folder or file, you can see it.

Tags: The tags that you used are displayed and linked. If you click on a tag, you will be taken to the My tags page.

Click the Edit button to change any component of a folder or file, i.e. its name, description and tags. If you have a folder or file included in a page that you submitted for feedback, you will not be able to edit them.

Click the Select button to choose the image file you wish to display in the block.

Click the Remove button if you want to revert your selection.

Show description: Tick this check box if you wish to display the description of your photo. It could contain the source of it for example.

Width: Choose the width (in pixels) for your image. If you do not provide a number, the image will be scaled to the width of the block.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Waarschuwing

When you place group, institution or site files into a page, beware that these files may not be available at some point anymore when the person in charge deletes them.

6.1.6. Ingebedde media

Display an embedded video or audio file from your uploaded files. You can display mp3, mp4 and flv files per default.

Notitie

If you wish to display other file types, the site administrator must allow other media formats. These will not be displayed with the built-in media player but require that you have the correct media player installed to display these videos.

Configure the Embedded media block

Block title: Choose a title for your block.

Files area: Choose from which files area you would like to select a media file:

My files: You see all the folders and files that you have created.

Group files: You see all the folders and files that you are allowed to publish.

Institution files: If you are an institution administrator, you will see institution folders and files.

Site files: If you are a site administrator, you will see all site folders and files. Otherwise, you can only see the ones that are in the folder public in the Site files.

Upload file: You do not have to go back to your Files area in Content in order to upload a file. You can do so directly from this screen.

Folder path: The breadcrumbs show in which folder you are currently.

Name: The name of a folder or file is displayed.

Description: If you provided a description for your folder or file, you can see it.

Tags: The tags that you used are displayed and linked. If you click on a tag, you will be taken to the My tags page.

Click the Edit button to change any component of a folder or file, i.e. its name, description and tags. If you have a folder or file included in a page that you submitted for feedback, you will not be able to edit them.

Click the Select button to choose the media file you wish to display in the block.

Click the Remove button if you want to revert your selection.

Width: Choose the width (in pixels) for your video.

Height: Choose the height (in pixels) for your video.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Notitie

Only the files that you are allowed to embed are displayed. If you uploaded a mp4 file but it does not show here, you may have to check if it has the correct codec. Only H.264 mp4 files can be embedded.

Waarschuwing

When you place group, institution or site files into a page, beware that these files may not be available at some point anymore when the person in charge deletes them.

6.2. Blogs

You can embed content from your journals in various ways in a page:

display an entire journal

display only one journal entry

show the latest journal entries

display journal entries with a specific tag

Notitie

You must create at least one journal in order to see anything in this block.

Waarschuwing

You can allow the copying of your journal (entries). Choose this option wisely because once a user copied your journal content into their portfolio, it looks as if they had written the journal entries. This could lead to plagiarism. However, it can be used very nicely to create templates and to scaffold learning.

6.2.1. Display an entire journal

Display an entire journal in your portfolio page.

Configure the Journal block

Block title: The title for the block is chosen automatically from the title of the journal unless you provide a different one.

Journal: Select the journal you wish to display. If you have many journals, you can also search for the one you want to use.

Entries per page: Decide how many entries you want to display. Entries beyond this number are accessible via a page navigation bar.

Block copy permissions: You decide what shall happen with this block when you allow other users to copy your page. Options are:

Skip this block entirely when copying the page

Others may display your journal in their page

Others will get their own copy of your journal

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Notitie

If you share the page in which you make an entire journal visible to the public, your journal receives an RSS feed address to which your readers can subscribe in their favorite RSS readers.

new in Mahara 1.6 Once you have included the Journal block into a page, you can create a new journal entry directly from that block when you are in the Edit mode for the page. When you click the New entry button, you will be taken to your journal and a new entry is started for you. It is then added to the journal automatically.

Create a new journal entry directly from the Entire journal block

6.2.2. Display one journal entry

Display one journal entry in your portfolio page.

Configure the Journal entry block

Block title: The title of the journal entry is chosen automatically unless you provide a different one.

Journal entry: Select the journal entry you wish to display. If you have many, you can also search for the one you want to use. You always also see the title of the journal in which the entry appears.

Block copy permissions: You decide what shall happen with this block when you allow other users to copy your page. Options are:

Skip this block entirely when copying the page

Others may display your journal entry in their page

Others will get their own copy of your journal entry

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

6.2.3. Display recent journal entries

Display recent journal entries across all your journals in your portfolio page.

Configure the Recent journal entries block

Block title: Choose a title for your block.

Journals: Select the journal(s) from which you wish to display the latest entries. If you have many journals, you can also search for the one(s) you want to use.

Items to show: Decide how many entries you want to display.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Notitie

If you have multiple journals, you can display recent entries from all of them.

new in Mahara 1.6 Once you have included the Recent journal entries block into a page, you can create a new journal entry directly from that block when you are in the Edit mode for the page. When you click the New entry button, you will be taken to your journal and a new entry is started for you. It is then added to the journal automatically.

Create a new journal entry directly from the Recent journal entries block - one journal only

If you enabled multiple journals and selected more than one for which to display recent journal entries, you will see a slightly different display. You can choose the journal to which to add your entry from the drop-down menu and then click the Go button to create your new entry.

Create a new journal entry directly from the Recent journal entries block - multiple journals available

6.2.4. Display tagged journal entries

Display tagged journal entries across all your journals in your portfolio page.

Configure the Tagged journal entries block

Block title: Choose a title for your block.

My tags: Select the tag for which you want to display all journal entries. new in Mahara 1.6 Only tags you used on journal entries are shown in the drop-down menu.

Items to show: Decide how many entries you want to display.

new in Mahara 1.6 Show journal items in full: If you select this option, your journal entries will be displayed. Otherwise, only their titles are shown and people need to click on them to read your entries.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

new in Mahara 1.6 Once you have included the Tagged journal entries block into a page, you can create a new journal entry directly from that block when you are in the Edit mode for the page. When you click the New entry button, you will be taken to your journal and a new entry is started for you. It is then added to the journal automatically with the tag whose journal entries are displayed on the page.

Create a new journal entry directly from the Tagged journal entries block - one journal only

If you enabled multiple journals and have a minimum of two journals, you will see a slightly different display. You can choose the journal to which to add your entry from the drop-down menu and then click the Go button to create your new entry.

Create a new journal entry directly from the Tagged journal entries block - multiple journals available

6.3. Algemeen

The artefacts in this tab are of a general nature or do not fit into any other category and can be used around the site.

When you create a page in a group, you do not have the plans block available as you cannot create plans in groups. Additionally, you can choose the following blocks when you edit the group homepage:

Group information

Group members

Group pages

6.3.1. Creative Commons license

Add a block to your page which lets users know under which Creative Commons license [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/] your page is published.

Configure the Creative Commons license block

Block title: Choose a title for your block.

Allow commercial uses of your work? Decide whether users can re-use your work for commercial purposes.

Allow modifications of your work? Decide whether others can remix your work and create something new and if so under which conditions.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Zie ook

For more information about the licenses and their terms, visit the Creative Commons web site [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/].

6.3.2. Navigation

Add a navigation block to display links to pages in a collection.

Notitie

You must create at least one collection in order to use this block.

Configure the Navigation block

Block title: The title of the collection is chosen automatically unless you provide a different one.

Collection: Choose the collection from the drop-down menu for which you wish to display links in the block.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

6.3.3. Plans

Display one of your plans in a block.

Notitie

You must create at least one plan in order to use this block.

Configure the Plans block

Block title: The title of the plan is chosen automatically unless you provide a different one.

Plan to show: Choose the plan which you want to display in your page.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Result of an embedded plan in a portfolio page. By clicking on the linked titles, you can show the descriptions of the individual tasks.

6.3.4. Recent forum posts

Display a specified number of recent forum posts from one group on a page.

Notitie

You must be a member of at least one group in order to use this block.

Configure the Recent forum posts block

Block title: The title of the block is generated automatically unless you provide a different one. The default title is “Recent forum posts”.

Group: Choose the group whose forum posts you wish to display.

Maximum number of posts to show: Decide how many of the latest forum posts you wish to show. The default value is 5. You can show up to 100 posts.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

6.3.5. Text box

Add text to your page. This feature is used when you do not want to keep the text in a journal, e.g. just for small snippets of text.

6.3.5.1. Add a new text box

Configure the Text box block

Block title: Provide a title for your text.

Block content: Write your text. You can include formatting, external images etc.

Alternatively, you can also use text from another note that you have already written.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Notitie

We recommend you do not include images that you have uploaded to Mahara in a text box. It cannot be guaranteed that they are displayed for other users if they do not have access to the image via another portfolio page. All access in Mahara is granted to pages and through them to the artefact blocks. An image in a text box is not recognized as artefact and can therefore not receive its proper permissions.

6.3.5.2. Re-use text from an existing text box

You can re-use text from other text boxes (a.k.a. Notes) from one page in another.

Waarschuwing

If you do not make a copy of a text box content and change it, the text is changed in all other instances where this text box is used.

Configure the Text box block by copying text

Block title: Provide a title for your text. You should only enter it after you selected the text box to re-use as the title of the original text box will be entered.

Click the link Use content from another text box to view all the text boxes to which you have access. These can be:

your own notes

text boxes from group pages that you can copy

text boxes from institution or site pages to which you have access

Click Browse or Search to find the text box that you want to re-use.

All text boxes are listed with their title and the first line. Click the radio button next to the text box that you want to use again.

If a text box does not belong to you but a group for example, you see the author next to the text box title.

The content of the text box that you have selected is displayed in the Block content box. You can now make changes. The text will be changed in all other instances where this text box appears.

If you wish to make changes to the text but not want to change it everywhere else, click the Make a copy link above the Block content. The text is then retained, but is treated like a new text box.

Click the Manage all text box content link to be taken to your personal Notes to make changes there instead of in an existing text box from this popup window here.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Zie ook

You can watch a demo of this feature [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz5gh2Quh-g] in action.

6.3.6. Inbox

The Inbox block displays the latest messages that you have received.

Notitie

This block can only be used on your dashboard.

Configure the Inbox block

Block title: The automatic title for this block is “Inbox”. You can set another one if you wish.

Message types to display: Place a check mark for each message type that you want to display in this block.

Maximum number of items to display: Decide how many messages shall be shown on your dashboard. You can choose between 5 and 100.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

6.3.7. Latest pages

The Latest pages block displays the latest pages to which you have access across Mahara.

Notitie

This block can only be used on your dashboard.

Configure the Latest pages block

Block title: The automatic title for this block is “Latest pages”. You can set another one if you wish.

Maximum number of pages to show: Decide how many pages shall be shown on your dashboard. You can choose between 5 and 100.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

6.3.8. Watched pages

The Watched pages block displays the pages that are on your watchlist.

Notitie

This block can only be used on your dashboard.

Configure the Watched pages block

Block title: The automatic title for this block is “Watched pages”. You can set another one if you wish.

Items to show: Decide how many pages shall be shown on your dashboard.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

6.3.9. Group info

This block is a default block on the group homepage. There is no configuration possible.

Items in the group info block

The block contains information about:

group characteristics

group administrator

group creation date

new in Mahara 1.6 dates between which regular group members can participate in group activities

group statistics

number of group members

number of pages created in the group

number of files uploaded to the group

number of folders created in the group

new in Mahara 1.6 number of forums created in the group

new in Mahara 1.6 number of forum topics created in the group

new in Mahara 1.6 number of posts in forum topics in the group

6.3.10. Group members

This block is a default block on the group homepage. You can display member profile pictures and their names.

Configure the Group members block

Block title: The automatic title for this block is “Members”. You can set another one if you wish.

Shown members: Choose how many members (between 1 and 20) are shown on the group homepage. All others are accessible via the Members tab in the group.

Order: Choose the order in which members are displayed. Options are

latest: display members according to their group joining date in reverse chronological order

random: let Mahara decide which members to display

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

6.3.11. Group pages

This block is a default block on the group homepage. You can display pages created in and / or shared with the group in this block.

Configure the Group pages block

Block title: The automatic title for this block is “Group pages”. You can set another one if you wish.

Display group pages: Decide whether to display pages that were created in the group. “Yes” is the default option.

Display shared pages: Decide whether to display pages that users shared with the group. “No” is the default option.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

6.4. Profiel

The artefact blocks in this tab allow you to include information that you provided in the profile into your portfolio. If you want to make changes to the text or the images, go to Content → Profile.

Furthermore, you can also put certain blocks on your profile page that only exist for that particular page:

My friends

My groups

My pages

Wall

6.4.1. Contact information

Add a block with contact information to your page.

Notitie

Only display as much information as you wish anybody to see. Especially when you make your pages available to the public, i.e. everybody on the Internet, or all logged-in users, decide carefully whether you want to display your street address and / or phone number.

Configure the Contact information block

Block title: Choose a title for your block.

Email address Decide whether to display one of your email addresses that you have entered in your profile under Content.

Fields to show: Decide which fields shall appear on the page. Put a check mark in front of each one that you want to show. Shown are only the ones for which you provided content.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

6.4.2. My friends

Add a block that displays your friends’ profile pictures and their names to your profile page. This is a default block on your profile page.

You only need to place the block on your profile page. There is no further configuration possible.

6.4.3. My groups

Add a block that displays your groups to your profile page. It is a standard profile page block.

You only need to place the block on your profile page. There is no further configuration possible.

6.4.4. My pages

Add a block that displays your pages on your profile page. It is a standard profile page block. This block should stay on your profile page because other users can see all your pages to which they have acceess.

You only need to place the block on your profile page. There is no further configuration possible.

Notitie

When other users view your profile page, they only see the pages to which they have access. That also means that you see all your pages while others may see none or just a few.

6.4.5. Profile information

Add a block with profile fields to your page.

Notitie

Only display as much information as you wish anybody to see. Especially when you make your pages available to the public, i.e. everybody on the Internet, or all logged-in users, decide carefully whether you want to display your street address and / or phone number.

Configure the Profile information block

Block title: Choose a title for your block.

Fields to show: Decide which fields shall appear on the page. Put a check mark in front of each one that you want to show. Displayed are only the ones for which you provided content.

Profile picture: Choose to display one of your profile pictures or none.

Email address Decide whether to display one of your email addresses that you have entered in your profile under Content.

Introduction text: If you do not want to display the introduction text from your profile, you can write another one just for this page here. However, it will be lost when you delete this block.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

6.4.6. Wall

Add a block that displays your wall to your profile page. It is a standard profile page block.

You only need to place the block on your profile page. There is no further configuration possible.

6.5. Curriculum Vitae

You can display either your entire résumé or parts of it in any portfolio page. If you choose to display only parts of your résumé, you have more control over the arrangement of the information.

6.5.1. Display your entire résumé

Add a block with your entire résumé to your page.

Configure the Your entire résumé block

Block title: Choose a title for your block.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

6.5.2. Display one résumé field

Add a block with one résumé field to your page.

Configure the One résumé field block

Block title: The title of the résumé field you want to display is chosen automatically unless you provide a different one.

Field to show: Choose the résumé information that you want to display. You can select one area at a time.

You can jump to the résumé section directly from this pop-up window in order to fill in more content.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Notitie

Normally, only résumé fields are shown for which you have provided content. However, as soon as you fill in a skills or goals area, all headings are displayed even when they do not contain any content.

6.6. Externe inhoud

With the help of the external content blocks, you can include RSS feeds, external media or GoogleApps documents etc. into a page.

6.6.1. Externe feed

Embed an external RSS or ATOM feed, e.g. to display an external blog.

Configure the external feed block

Blok titel: als je de titel leeg laat, dan zal de titel van de feed gebruikt worden.

Feed locatie: zet de hele URL van een geldige RSS- of ATOM-feed hier. Als de feed niet getoond wordt, probeer die dan te bekijken in een gewone feed-lezer en verzeker je ervan dat de URL juist is.

Insecure SSL mode: Place a check mark in this box if you wish to enable the insecure SSL mode. This mode allows you to override certificate errors generated by a feed.

HTTP username: Provide a username if you wish to access a feed that requires authentication. This is the username to access the feed and not your portfolio system.

HTTP password: Provide a password to access a feed that requires authentication. This is the password to access the feed and not your portfolio system.

Items to show: Decide how many of the latest items in the feed you wish to display. You can choose up to 20.

Show feed items in full: If you do not select this option, only a heading will be shown for each feed item, e.g. the blog heading of a post. If you select this option, the entire content of the feed item will be shown, e.g. the entire blog post or in case of a flickr RSS feed, the photo and its description.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Notitie

Unfortunately, Firefox and Chrome do not display the RSS feed icon for a page immediately near the address bar anymore. In Firefox you will have to go to View → Toolbars → Customize and then drag the RSS icon to your toolbar. It lights up orange / white when a feed is available.

If you use Chrome, you will have to install the RSS Subscription Extension [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd].

Notitie

If your feed is not updated automatically, please ask your site administrator to check the cron settings.

6.6.2. Externe media

With this block you can embed content from a wide variety of third-party sites. The sites that are allowed are listed below the text area in the pop-up. You see only their favicons, but when you hover over an icon with your mouse, you see the site’s name as well.

Zie ook

Mahara comes with a number of sites that are allowed per default. These are listed on the page. new in Mahara 1.6 Your site admin can add additional iframe sources.

Configure the external media block

Bloktitel: kies een titel voor je ingebedde inhoud.

URL or embed code: Paste the URL or the embed code of a page where the content is located.

Embed code: Content from the sites listed in this section can be embeded using the <iframe> embed code. Any new site that the site administrator allows will be added in alphabetical order. The default sites are:

Glogster [http://www.glogster.com]

SlideShare [http://www.slideshare.com]

Vimeo [http://vimeo.com]

Voki [http://www.voki.com]

WikiEducator [http://www.wikieducator.org]

YouTube [http://youtube.com]

URLs: Content from the sites listed in this section can be embedded by simply grabbing the page URLs where the content can be found. The default sites are:

Google Videos [http://video.google.com]

Prezi [http://www.prezi.com]

Scivee.tv [http://www.scivee.tv]

SlideShare [http://www.slideshare.com]

TeacherTube [http://www.teachertube.com]

Vimeo [http://vimeo.com]

VoiceThread [http://www.voicethread.com]

Voki [http://www.voki.com]

WikiEducator [http://www.wikieducator.org]

YouTube [http://youtube.com]

Width and Height: Choose the width and the height that the content should take up on the page. This only goes for the content for which you provided the URL. If you use the embed code, you need to provide the correct width and height directly in the embed code.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om je wijzigingen te aanvaarden, of klik op de Annuleer-knop om de inhoud van het blok te laten zoals die is. De Verwijder-knop wordt alleen getoond wanneer je het blok op een pagina zet en je nog geen andere artefacten toegevoegd hebt.

Notitie

You can use the same iframe embed code around Mahara in text boxes and journal entries as well.

6.6.3. Google Apps

Embed any of the following content available via Google (Apps):

Boeken

calenders

documenten, rekenbladen, presentaties

kaarten

You can only display the content, but not immediately edit documents, spreadsheets or presentations. You will have to be logged in to your Google (Apps) account to do so. You can use this block with a regular, personal Google account or if you have a Google Apps account via an institution, e.g. your school or university.

Notitie

If certain documents are restricted to a Google Apps domain or to specific people, a login screen is displayed.

Configure the Google Apps block

Bloktitel: kies een titel voor je ingebedde inhoud.

Embed code or URL: Depending on what kind of content you wish to display, you either provide the embed code or the URL. Click the Help button help for more information on how to embed each Google component.

Height: Choose the height for the embedded content. The width is adjusted to the column width of the block automatically.

Click the Save button to accept your changes, or click the Remove button to remove this block from your page.

Google document

Open the document.

Click File in the menu bar and then Publish to the Web.

Click the Start publishing button.

Copy the document link or embed code.

Paste the link or embed code into the Embed code or URL box in the Google Apps block.

Google spreadsheet

Open the spreadsheet.

Click File in the menu bar and then Publish to the Web.

Click the Start publishing button.

Read through the other options and decide on them.

Copy the link for the option Web page or the embed code for the option HTML to embed in a page.

Paste the link or embed code into the Embed code or URL box in the Google Apps block.

Google presentation

Open the presentation.

Click File in the menu bar and then Publish to the Web.

Click the Start publishing button.

Copy the link or embed code.

Paste the link or embed code into the Embed code or URL box in the Google Apps block.

Google collections

Click on the arrow to the right of the collection name and then on Share and Share again.

Change the permissions to Public on the web and save your changes.

Copy the link.

Paste the link into the Embed code or URL box in the Google Apps block.

Google docs viewer

When you have access to a document, e.g. PDF file, through Google Docs from another person, you can embed it:

Click on File in the menu bar and then Embed this PDF file… / Embed link….

Copy the embed code.

Paste it into the Embed code or URL box in the Google Apps block.

Alternatively, you can export the document into your Google Documents and treat it like any other document (see the section on Google documents above).

Google Calendar

Open Google Calendar.

Click on the little triangle next to the calendar that you wish to embed.

Click on Calendar settings.

On the Calendar details tab scroll down to Embed This Calendar.

Customize the calendar appearance and then copy the embed code.

Paste the embed code into the Embed code or URL box in the Google Apps block.

Google Maps

Open Google Maps.

Click the My Places button.

Click on the name of the map that you wish to embed.

Click on the Link icon to the left of the map.

Customize the appearance of the map and copy the embed code.

Paste the embed code into the Embed code or URL box in the Google Apps block.

Notitie

Use steps 2 and 3 only if you wish to embed one of your Google maps. If you wish to embed any Google map, you can skip these steps.

Google Books

Open Google Books.

Find the book that you wish to embed.

Click on the book title.

Click on the Link icon above the book.

Copy the embed code of the book.

Paste the embed code into the Embed code or URL box in the Google Apps block.

Notitie

The link icon only appears if you are allowed to embed this book.

6.7. Blocks in various pages

Certain blocks can only exist in certain page contexts. For example, the wall can only be placed on the profile page whereas the text box can be used on any page. There are a number of page contexts which can have different blocks:

portfolio page

group page

institution page

site page

profile page

dashboard page

The following list shows in which contexts a specific block and therefore a specific artefact can be used. It also shows which blocks can be copied. The original idea came from Synergy Learning for Mahara 1.3.

Notitie

Blocks in a page that are copied from one user to another need to be checked for content accuracy and whether they can be retained as they are or need to be updated.

6.7.1. Bestanden, afbeeldingen en video

Blokkeer

Gebruiker

Groep

Instituut

Site

Controlepaneel

Profiel

Groep startpagina

Copyable

File(s) to download

A folder

Some HTML

Image

Image gallery

Embedded media

6.7.2. Blogs

Blokkeer

Gebruiker

Groep

Instituut

Site

Controlepaneel

Profiel

Groep startpagina

Copyable

Display an entire journal

Display one journal entry

Display recent journal entries

Display tagged journal entries

6.7.3. Algemeen

Blokkeer

Gebruiker

Groep

Instituut

Site

Controlepaneel

Profiel

Groep startpagina

Copyable

Creative Commons license

Navigation

Text box

Plans

Recent forum posts

Group info

Group members

Group pages

My inbox

Latest pages

My watched pages

6.7.4. Profiel

Blokkeer

Gebruiker

Groep

Instituut

Site

Controlepaneel

Profiel

Groep startpagina

Copyable

Contact information

Profile information

My friends

My groups

My pages

Wall

6.7.5. Curriculum Vitae

Blokkeer

Gebruiker

Groep

Instituut

Site

Controlepaneel

Profiel

Groep startpagina

Copyable

Display your entire résumé

Display one résumé field

6.7.6. Externe inhoud

Blokkeer

Gebruiker

Groep

Instituut

Site

Controlepaneel

Profiel

Groep startpagina

Copyable

External feed

External media

Google Apps

7. Instellingen

7.1. Accountinstellingen

7.1.1. Nieuw wachtwoord

7.1.2. Wijzig gebruikersnaam

7.1.3. Wijzig profiel-URL

7.1.4. Algemene instellingen account

7.1.5. Verwijder account

7.2. Meldingen

7.3. Mijn Inbox

7.1. Accountinstellingen

De accountinstellingen van een gebruiker kun je vinden via de “Instellingen”-pagina. Die vind je in de rechterbovenhoek naast Inbox en Afmelden in een standaard Mahara.

Link to the Settings page on the Dashboard

7.1.1. Nieuw wachtwoord

Je kunt je Mahara wachtwoord wijzigen op de Instellingen-pagina

Change your password

Huidig wachtwoord: geef je huidig wachtwoord.

Nieuw wachtwoord: geef je nieuw gekozen wachtwoord.

Bevestig wachtwoord: geef je nieuw wachtwoord opnieuw in om er zeker van te zijn dat het juist gespeld is.

Als je wil kun je meer wijzigingen maken op deze pagina.

Klik op de Bewaren-knop onderaan de pagina.

Je wachtwoord moet uit minstens zes tekens bestaan. Wachtwoorden zijn hoofdlettergevoelig en moeten verschillend zijn van je gebruikersnaam.

Notitie

Als je geen Nieuw wachtwoord-veld ziet, dan kun je je wachtwoord niet wijzigen. Je gebruikersnaam en wachtwoord worden dan ergens anders beheerd. Dit is bijvoorbeeld het geval als je instituut single-sign-on met andere applicaties heeft opgezet. Als je je wachtwoord dan wil wijzigen, contacteer dan je instituutsbeheerders. Die zullen je kunnen vertellen waar je je wachtwoord kunt wijzigen.

7.1.2. Wijzig gebruikersnaam

Je hebt een gebruikersnaam nodig om aan te melden bij Mahara. Als je account niet beheerd wordt door single-sign-on of een andere methode, dan zie je dit veld. Je kunt dan altijd je gebruikersnaam wijzigen.

Change your username

Notitie

Gebruikersnamen zijn 3-30 tekens lang en kunnen letters, cijfers en de meeste gewone symbolen bevatten, maar geen spaties.

7.1.3. new in Mahara 1.6 Wijzig profiel-URL

Notitie

Je kunt het “Wijzig profiel-URL”-gedeelte van je account instellingenpagina enkel zien als de site beheerder :ref:’mooie URL’s <clean_urls>’ ingeschakeld heeft en jouw het recht gegeven heeft je profiel-URL te wijzigen.

Change profile URL

Als je deze optie ziet, kun je een identificatie voor je profielpagina kiezen. Standaard wordt je gebruikersnaam gekozen, maar als je dat wil wijzigen en de site beheerder heeft dat toegestaan, dan moet je identificatie 3-30 tekens lang zijn. Je kunt enkel kleine letters gebruiken van a-z, cijfers en een liggend streepje.

Je profielpagina is dan toegankelijk via de URL http://jouw.mahara/user/jouw-gekozen-naam. Bijvoorbeeld: http://mahara-university.org/user/paula.

Waarschuwing

Hoewel je de URL later nog kunt wijzigen, kun je dat beter niet doen omdat mensen die de URL naar je pagina al kennen, geen toegang meer zullen hebben nadat je de URL gewijzigd hebt.

De oorspronkelijke interne Mahara URL, vb. http://mahara-university.org/user/view.php?id=123 blijft altijd werken.

7.1.4. Algemene instellingen account

De algemene gebruikersinstellingen zijn zichtbaar voor alle gebruikers, zelfs als ze hun gebruikersnaam en wachtwoord niet kunnen wijzigen.

View and change your general account options

Vriendschapscontrole: kies of andere gebruikers je mogen toevoegen aan hun vriendenlijst. Als je toegevoegd bent aan een de lijst van een vriend, dan al de eigenaar daarvan ook aan jouw lijst toegevoegd worden. Wanneer je iemand van je lijst verwijdert, dan zul je ook van hun lijst verwijderd worden. Jouw instellingsopties zijn:

Niemand mag me als vriend toevoegen: andere gebruikers zien de optie om jouw als vriend toe te voegen niet.

Nieuwe vrienden moeten mijn goedkeuring krijgen: voor iemand jouw kan toevoegen als vriend aan hun vriendenlijst, moet je hen eerst goedkeuren.

Nieuwe vrienden worden automatisch goedgekeurd: je aanvaardt alle vriendschapsverzoeken automatisch.

HTML-editor: er is een HTML-editor beschikbaar op sommige delen van de site. Dit is een ‘What you see is what you get’ (WYSIWYG) editor. Hiermee kun je gemakkelijk opmaakt toevoegen aan je teksten, zoals met een tekstverwerker. Als de editor uitgeschakeld is, dan kun je enkel platte tekst invoeren zonder opmaak, zoals vet gekleurde tekst; Als je deze optie niet hebt, dan kan de site-beheerder de editor uitgeschakeld hebben.

E-mail uitschakelen: gebruik deze instelling om de site te laten te stoppen mail naar jou te sturen. Het is een goed idee om te regelen wat via mail verstuurd wordt en wat niet via :ref:’meldingen <notifications>’.

Berichten van andere gebruikers: gebruik deze instelling om te kiezen van wie je berichten wil. Gebruik de :ref:’meldingen <notifications>’-zone om te beslissen hoe je deze berichten wil krijgen. Opmerking: deze beperkingen gelden niet voor gebruikers met toegang als ‘beheerder’ of ‘leraar’. Jouw opties zijn:

Niemand mag me berichten sturen: andere gebruikers mogen je geen berichten sturen.

Mijn vrienden mogen me berichten sturen: enkel gebruikers op je vriendenlijst kunnen je via het systeem contacteren en je een bericht sturen.

Iedereen mag me berichten sturen: elke gebruiker van het systeem, of ze nu vriend zijn of niet, kan je contacteren.

Taal: als jouw Mahara in meerdere talen wordt aangboden, dan zul je deze optie zien en kan je kiezen in welke taal je wil navigeren door de site. De menu-items en de contextgevoelige hulp verschijnen in je gekozen taal. De inhoud van portfolio’s of groepen zal echter niet automatisch naar die taal omschakelen.

|new in Mahara 1.6|**Thema**:

Als je lid bent van meerdere instituten, kun je het instituutsthema kiezen waarmee je door de site wil bladeren. Andere gebruikers zullen jouw pagina’s in hun eigen thema zien omdat de instelling :ref:”pagina thema’s<user_settings>” hier niet voor geldt.

Als de beheerder het toestaat, kun je uit één van de beschikbare thema’s kiezen. Volgende instelling moet gemaakt worden in ‘’config.php’‘: ‘’$sfg->sitethemeprefs=true’‘.

Toon controle om kolommen toe te voegen en te verwijderen tijdens het bewerken van een pagina: je kunt de Toevoegen en Verwijderen-knoppen op het bewerkscherm voor pagina’s om het aantal kolommen vlug te wijzigen toevoegen of verwijderen. Zie :ref:’bewerk opmaak <edit_layout>’.

Meerder logboeken inschakelen: standaard heb je één logboek. Als je dit inschakeld, kun je meerdere logboeken maken. Als je deze optie gekozen hebt, zal ze van je instellingenpagina verdwijnen, tenzij je terug maar één logboek meer hebt.

Maximum aantal tags in je wolk: beslis hoeveel tags je wil tonen in je persoonlijke tag-wolk in de zijbalk bij Inhoud en Portfolio.

Verberg echte naam: je ziet deze instelling al de instelling :ref:’site beheerder staat gebruikers toe om hun echte naam te verbergen <user_settings>’ ingeschakeld is. Als je dit inschakelt, kunnen anderen je enkel zoeken als je je :ref:’voorkeursnaam <about_me>’ gebruikt.

Startpaginainformatie: kies deze optie als de :ref:’snellinks <dashboard_quick_links>’ op je controlepaneel wil tonen.

Mobiel upload token: Geef hier en op je Android of iPhone een token, vb een woord, om uploads van MaharaDroid [http://code.google.com/p/maharadroid/] en PortfolioUp [http://www.brightcookie.com/our-services/consulting-additional-services/portfolioup/] mogelijk te maken. Je token wijzigt automatisch na elke upload. Zie Mobile Mahara voor meer informatie over het gebruiken van Mahara met een mobiel toestel. De site beheerder moet mobiel uploaden toegestaan hebben om deze optie te kunnen gebruiken. new in Mahara 1.6 Je kunt meerdere mobile uploadtokens maken, waardoor je al je mobiele toestellen kunt gebruiken om te uploaden naar de Mahara site.

new in Mahara 1.6 Herschaal afbeeldingen tijdens upload: Als je deze optie inschakelt, dan zullen alle grote afbeeldingen geschaald worden tot de maximumafbeeldingen. Je kunt dit uitschakelen voor de upload van individuele afbeeldingen. Je ziet deze optie enkel als je site beheerder dit toestaat.

new in Mahara 1.6 Toesteldetectie: als je deze optie inschakelt en je bladert door de site met een smartphone of een tablet, dan zul je enkel functies zien de mogelijk zijn vanaf een draagbaar toestel. Als je dit niet inschakeld, dan zie je de site zoals je die zou zien vanaf een computer. Op kleine toestellen zal het menu toch wijzigen naar een mobiel-vriendelijk formaat. Je ziet deze optie alleen als de site beheerder het toestaat.

Klik op de Bewaren-knop al je klaar bent met je wijzigingen.

Waarschuwing

Als je je e-mailadres uitschakelt, kun je je wachtwoord niet opnieuw instellen want dat vereist het versturen van een e-mail naar je adres. Je moet dan een beheerder contacteren om je wachtwoord te resetten.

Notitie

Als je Moodle gebruikt om gegevens te exporteren naar Mahara, dan moet je meerdere logboeken inschakelen omdat inhoud die via Leap2A doorgestuurd wordt, dikwijls in een nieuw logboek geplaatst wordt.

7.1.5. Verwijder account

Als je Mahara site zelfregistratie toestaat, dan kun je je eigen account verwijderen door op de Verwijder account-link te klikken bovenaan de Instellingen -pagina.

Waarschuwing

Wees er zeker van dat je je account wil verwijderen. Je artefacts en pagina’s kunnen niet hersteld worden als je je account verwijdert. Alles zal weg zijn. Je kunt van al je zaken een backup maken (behalve groepsinhoud) door je portfolio te exporteren.

7.2. Meldingen

Instellingen → Meldingen

Mahara stuurt meldingen voor verschillende activiteiten:

Systeembericht: automatisch gegenereerd door het systeem of door één van de beheeerders naar jou gestuurd, vb een account bevestigingsbericht.

Bericht van andere gebruikers: naar jou gestuurd door andere gebruikers van de site.

Volglijst: melding van een activiteit of artefact, pagina of logboek die je monitort.

Nieuwe paginatoegang: melding dat jij of één van je groepen toegang gekregen heeft to een nieuwe of bestaande privépagina. Je krijgt geen melding over pagina’s die toegankelijk zijn voor alle aangemelde gebruikers en openbare pagina’s.

Instituutsbericht: automatisch gegenereerd door het systeem, vb instituutsbevestigingsbericht, instuutsverwijderbericht, instituutsaanvraag naar de beheerder gestuurd.

Groepsbericht: automatisch gegenereerd door het systeem, vb gebruiker die toestemming vraagt om lid te worden van een groep.

Feedback: melding van feedback of commentaar die je gekregen hebt op pagina’s, artefacts of logboekberichten.

Nieuw forumbericht: melding over nieuwe berichten in forums waarop je ingescherven bent.

Contacteer ons: berichten aan beheerders die verstuurd zijn via het Contacteer ons formulier.

Bezwaarlijke inhoud: berichten aan beheer waarin klachten staan van gebruikers over bezwaarlijke inhoud.

Herhaaldelijk virus uploaden: berichten aan beheerders over gebruikers die heraaldelijk geïnfecteerde bestanden uploaden. Viruscontrole moet ingeschakeld zijn.

Virusvlag verwijderd: berichten aan beheerders over bestanden die waren vrijgegeven door de virusscanner.

Je kunt selecteren hoe je meldingen krijgt voor elk activiteitstype

Meldingen

Selecteer het meldingstype voor elk activiteitstype. Er zijn vier meldingstypes:

E-mail: je primair e-mailadres zal telkens een e-mail ontvangen

Gegroepeerde e-mail: je primair e-mailadres zal elke dag een lijst krijgen van de activiteiten van de voorbije 24u; Die e-mail wordt gewoonlijk gestuurd rond 18:00, maar dat kan gewijzigd worden.

Inbox: je meldingen komen in je inbox terecht.

Geen: dit is enkel beschikbaar voor beheerdersmeldingen. Die kunnen er voor kiezen om geen meldingen van bepaalde types te krijgen.

Klik op de Bewaar-knop om wijzigingen aan het ontvangen van meldingen te bewaren

Notitie

Als je er voor kiest om e-mail of gegroepeerde e-mail te ontvangen, dan zullen alle activiteiten ook in je inbox opgenomen worden wanneer ze gebeuren. Ze zullen allemaal als gelezen gemarkeerd worden. Deze meldingen zullen automatisch vervallen en verwijderd worden van je inbox na 60 dagen.

Notitie

Enkel een beheerder met servertoegang kan de tijd wijzigen voor het versturen van de dagelijks gegroepeerde e-mail. De variable $emaildigest in het bestand htdocs/notification/emaildigest/lib.php moet daarvoor gewijzigd worden.

7.3. Mijn Inbox

Je kunt je meldingen voor jouw account zien in je Inbox waartoe je toegang hebt via de rechter bovenhoek naast Instellingen en Afmelden.

Your inbox

Activiteitstype: je kunt je meldingen filteren volgens activiteitstype om slechts een deel van je meldingen te zien.

Onderwerp: het onderwerp van de melding is gelinkt zodat je er kan op klikken en de tekst van de melding kunt lezen.

Datum: de datum wanneer de melding was verzonden.

Gelezen: je kunt individuele of alle meldingen selecteren op de pagina om ze als gelezen te markeren. new in Mahara 1.6 Het icoon voor berichten van andere gebruikers wijzigt in een open enveloppe als je al je berichten gelezen hebt.

Klik op de Markeer als gelezen-knop om de geselecteerde berichten als gelezen te markeren. Meldingen die naar je e-mailadres gestuurd worden, worden automatisch als gelezen gemarkeerd.

Verwijder: selecteer één of meer meldingen op de pagina die je wil verwijderen.

Klik op de Verwijder-knop om de geselecteerde meldingen permanent te verwijderen.

Klik op de Verwijder alle meldingen-knop als je alle meldingen ineens wil verwijderen. Als je een bepaald activiteitstype geselecteerd hebt, dan zullen enkel die meldingen verwijderd worden.

Waarschuwing

Als meldingen verwijderd zijn, kun je ze niet meer terughalen. Enkel wanneer je berichten naar je e-mail gestuurd zijn, kun je ze daar nog bekijken, toch als je ze daar ook niet verwijderd hebt.

8. Beheer

Het beheer van Mahara is voorbehouden voor site- en instituutsbeheerders. Configuratie-instellingen en functies die enkel voor site-beheerders zijn met volledige rechten worden zo aangeduid.

8.1. Overview

8.1.1. Admin home

8.1.2. Warnings

8.1.3. Register your Mahara site

8.1.4. Site information

8.1.5. Site statistics

8.1.5.1. Full site information

8.1.5.2. Users

8.1.5.3. Groups

8.1.5.4. Pages

8.1.5.5. Content

8.1.5.6. Historical data

8.1.5.7. Institutions

8.1.6. Close site

8.2. Beheer site

8.2.1. Site opties

8.2.1.1. Site instellingen

8.2.1.2. User settings

8.2.1.3. Search settings

8.2.1.4. Group settings

8.2.1.5. Institution settings

8.2.1.6. Account settings

8.2.1.7. Security settings

8.2.1.8. Proxy settings

8.2.1.9. Email settings

8.2.1.10. General settings

8.2.2. Edit site pages

8.2.3. Menus

8.2.3.1. Links and resources

8.2.3.2. Footer menu

8.2.4. Networking

8.2.5. Pages

8.2.6. Collections

8.2.7. Share

8.2.8. Files

8.3. Users

8.3.1. User search

8.3.1.1. User bulk actions

8.3.1.2. User reports

8.3.2. User account settings

8.3.2.1. Log in as

8.3.2.2. Change site account settings

8.3.2.3. Change institution settings

8.3.2.4. Suspend user

8.3.2.5. Delete user

8.3.3. Suspended and expired users

8.3.4. Site staff

8.3.5. Site administrators

8.3.6. Add user

8.3.7. Add and update users by CSV

8.3.8. Change the authentication method and remote username in bulk

8.4. Groups

8.4.1. Administer groups

8.4.1.1. Group file quota

8.4.1.2. Add or remove administrators

8.4.2. Group categories

8.4.3. Add and update groups by CSV

8.4.4. Update group members by CSV

8.5. Institutions

8.5.1. Overview

8.5.2. Add an institution

8.5.2.1. Change the institution logo

8.5.2.2. Use the configurable theme

8.5.3. Edit an institution

8.5.3.1. IMAP authentication

8.5.3.2. LDAP authentication

8.5.3.3. Persona authentication

8.5.3.4. SAML authentication

8.5.3.5. XML-RPC /MNet authentication

8.5.3.6. Order of authentication methods

8.5.3.7. Suspend institution

8.5.4. Members

8.5.4.1. People who have requested institution membership

8.5.4.2. People who have not requested membership yet

8.5.4.3. People who have left a given institution

8.5.4.4. People who are already institution members

8.5.4.5. People who have been invited

8.5.5. Institution staff

8.5.6. Institution administrators

8.5.7. Admin notifications

8.5.8. Institution pages

8.5.9. Institution collections

8.5.10. Share institution pages and collections

8.5.11. Institution statistics

8.5.11.1. Institution information

8.5.11.2. Users

8.5.11.3. Pages

8.5.11.4. Content

8.5.11.5. Historical data

8.5.12. Files

8.5.13. Pending registrations

8.5.13.1. Self-register for an internal account

8.5.13.2. Self-register with a Persona account

8.5.13.3. Review pending registrations

8.5.13.4. Complete self-registration

8.6. Extensions

8.6.1. Plugin administration

8.6.1.1. Blocktype: File / gallery

8.6.1.2. Blocktype: File / internalmedia

8.6.1.3. Block type: Wall

8.6.1.4. Artefact type: Comments

8.6.1.5. Artefact type: File

8.6.1.6. Artefact type: Profile

8.6.1.7. Authentication: SAML

8.6.1.8. Search: Internal search

8.6.1.9. Interaction: Forum

8.6.2. HTML filters

8.6.3. Allowed iframe sources

8.6.4. Clean URLs

8.7. Experimental features

8.7.1. Bulk export of Leap2A files

8.7.2. Bulk import of Leap2A files

8.7.2.1. Bulk import using a bulk export file

8.7.2.2. Bulk import from scratch

8.7.3. usersuniquebyusername variable

8.1. Overview

Notitie

new in Mahara 1.6 In Mahara 1.6 the administration menu item changed from Site administration and Institution administration to Administration and the menu items for site and institution administrators were aligned more closely.

As site and institution administrator you have an additional navigation item, Administration. When you click on it, your navigation changes completely to give you quick access to the administration of Mahara. Depending on your role as site or institution administrator, you may see the full administration (site administrators) or only a subset of it (institution administrators).

Top level navigation for a site administrator once inside Administration

Top level navigation for an institution administrator once inside Administration

8.1.1. Admin home

Administration → Admin home

Notitie

Admin home is only accessible by site administrators.

You see all administrative items on the main page of the Administration on Admin home.

Administration overview page

Notitie

Important warnings including their resolution are displayed in red so they cannot be overlooked easily.

If a core Mahara plugin requires an upgrade, you will see a notice about it and only need to click the button Run the upgrade.

Upgrade notice for a plugin

8.1.2. Warnings

After you have installed Mahara, you may see a number of warnings when you go to the Administration as site administrator. They should all be resolved to ensure that your site is secure and has all the necessary settings.

Session entropy length: Your PHP session.entropy_length setting is too small. Set it to at least 16 in your php.ini to ensure that generated session IDs are random and unpredictable enough. You can learn more about this advisory on the OWASP session management cheatsheet [https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Session_Management_Cheat_Sheet#Session_ID_Properties].

Noreply email address: If the system email address is empty or a malformed email address, you are asked to check and correct it in the system mail address setting.

Site-wide password salt: If you do not have one set, please edit your config.php and set the “passwordsaltmain” parameter to a reasonable secret phrase: $cfg->passwordsaltmain = 'your secret phrase here';

8.1.3. Register your Mahara site

Administration → Admin home → Register

As site administrator you can choose to register your Mahara site with mahara.org [http://mahara.org] and help us compile a list of the Mahara installations around the world and get a picture by how many people Mahara is used. Currently, this list is not published and made available to anyone. When you are on the administration overview page, you will see a link directly to the registration page.

Register your Mahara site

You can preview the data that is sent. Sending weekly updates is recommended so that the information we have is up-to-date. All information is sent anonymously. We will only know, for example, which version of Mahara you are running, how many times blocks or artefacts have been used, how many users you have etc.

Register your Mahara site with the Mahara project

Data that will be sent: Click this link to preview the data that will be sent from your site.

Send weekly updates: Enable this check box if you wish so send regular updates about your site to the project. These updates are based on changes in your site and include only anonymous updates.

Click the Register button to finish your registration with the Mahara project.

8.1.4. Site information

The Site information gives you as site administrator a quick overview of:

How your site is used.

When your site was installed.

How big the database is.

How much site data has been accumulated.

Which version of Mahara you are running.

Whether your cron is running or not.

Site information

If you have problems with your Mahara instance and you request information from the community in the forums [http://mahara.org/group/view.php?id=1], this information, esp. about your version and the cron, are useful to have. Furthermore, the version number allows you to check that you have the latest security release of your Mahara version installed.

Zie ook

The cron job is very important in Mahara as a number of vital tasks are only performed when it is running. You can find more information of how to set it up in the wiki [https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Cron_Job]. new in Mahara 1.6 If the cron is not running or only partially running, that information is displayed in red.

8.1.5. Site statistics

new in Mahara 1.6 Administration → Admin home → Site statistics

You can view a number of statistics about your Mahara site that give you an indication of how your site is used:

Overall site information

Overview information about users

Quick information about groups

Basic statistics about pages available on the site

new in Mahara 1.6 Content statistics for the current week

new in Mahara 1.6 Historical data for content statistics since the beginning of collecting these statistics

new in Mahara 1.6 Quick overview of institutions and some of their basic statistics

Zie ook

All site administrators and site staff have access to the statistics. They can also view the statistics individually for each institution.

8.1.5.1. Full site information

The full site information gives you information about a number of important things that site administrators may wish to see in an overview quickly.

Overview of the site

Site installed: Installation date of your site

Users: Number of

registered users, i.e. everybody who has an account

active users, i.e. users that have at least logged in once and have done something

Groups: Number of groups and average group membership of a user

Pages: Number of pages and average pages per user with pages

Database size: Size of your database on the server

Disk usage: The amount of disk space your Mahara installation uses

Mahara version: Version number of Mahara and the latest stable release

Cron: Information on whether cron is running or not

8.1.5.2. Users

On the Users tab of the site statistics, you see some overview statistics about the users on the site.

Statistics about users

You can see the following:

Your average user: Some basic statistics about your typical user such as:

average number of friends with the name of the person with most friends

average number of pages with the author of the most pages

average amount of file quota used with the user who has used most

A graph displays the number of members based on institutions.

Daily user statistics: The statistics show information about how many users logged in, were created and existed in total on a specific day.

new in Mahara 1.6 Export statistics in CSV format: Download the daily user statistics as CSV file.

8.1.5.3. Groups

On the Groups tab of the site statistics, some information is available about groups.

Statistics about groups

You can see the following:

The number of groups by group type

course group

standard group

The number of groups by access type

open membership

approved membership

controlled membership

A graph shows the groups according to group and access type.

Biggest groups: The groups are listed in descending order according to the number of their members including

number of members

number of pages

number of forums

number of forum posts

new in Mahara 1.6 Export statistics in CSV format: Download the cumulative statistics about the groups as CSV file.

8.1.5.4. Pages

The Pages tab in the site statistics provides you with basic information about pages that have been created on the site.

Statistics about pages

You can see the following:

The most frequently used blocks in portfolio pages.

A graph shows the distribution of profile, group and portfolio pages.

Most popular pages: The most popular pages are sorted in descending order with links to the pages and the owner.

new in Mahara 1.6 Export statistics in CSV format: Download the cumulative statistics about the pages and number of views as well as comments as CSV file.

8.1.5.5. new in Mahara 1.6 Content

The Content tab in the site statistics holds information about

artefacts

general site information

Statistics for the current week for all artefacts etc.

Name: The statistics item itself, e.g. artefact or other general item on site level. It is linked to the Historial data statistics for an overview of the changes over time.

Modified: This column shows the number of updates to an artefact etc. during the current week.

Total: This column shows the total number of instances of the statistics items.

Export statistics in CSV format: Download the cumulative statistics about all the statistics shown for the week as CSV file.

Zie ook

If you wish to see the number of different blocks used in portfolios, please go to the institution statistics.

Notitie

The number of total content statistics will vary because only when an artefact etc. was used will the statistics be created for that type.

8.1.5.6. new in Mahara 1.6 Historical data

The Historical data tab in the site statistics holds historical data over time about a particular content item that you have clicked on in the Content tab. Changes are saved per default on a weekly basis. However, whenever you run the cron manually, a new statistics will be created as well. You can also download the statistics as CSV file.

Historical data for individual content items

Historical statistics for field: Display of the artefact or other item that you are looking at.

Date: Display of the date when the statistics were created.

Modified: Display of the number of modifications from the previous date to the next one when the statistics were created.

Total: Total number of instances of this statistical item at the time the statistics were run.

Export statistics in CSV format: Download the cumulative statistics for this particular item as CSV file.

Notitie

When you click on the Historical data tab without choosing an item to look at in particular beforehand, the number of users are displayed as that is a statistics that is available on all sites.

8.1.5.7. new in Mahara 1.6 Institutions

The Institutions tab in the site statistics holds cumulative data on basic institution statistics. The numbers reflect the amount of content institution members have created. You find the totals for:

members

pages

blocks

artefacts

forum posts

You can sort each column in the table by clicking on its heading and also download the statistics as CSV file.

Basic institution statistics

Notitie

If your site allows users to be in more than one institution, their content will be counted twice as they are regarded as members in each institution. However, if looked at just the full site statistics where institutions do not play a role, there their content is only counted once.

8.1.6. Close site

Administration → Admin home → Overview

You may close the site to everyone except administrators. This is useful when you prepare for and complete a database upgrade. Only administrators will be able to log in until you either reopen the site or an upgrade is successfully completed.

Close your Mahara site

8.2. Beheer site

Beheer → Configureer site

Notitie

Configureer site is enkel toegankelijk voor site-beheerder.

In Configureer site kun je:

algemene instellingen voor ja Mahara site maken

site pagina’s bewerken

bepalen of bepaalde menu-items getoond worden

netwerking toestaan met Moodle of een andere Mahara

maken en delen van site-pagina’s en collecties

uploaden van site-bestanden

8.2.1. Site opties

Administratie → Configureer site → Site opties

in Site opties kun je globale opties kiezen die als standaard gelden voor de hele site.

Notitie

Een of meerdere velden kunnen uitgeschakeld zijn als ze overschreven zijn door een instelling in config.php.

Als je klaar bent met het bewerken van één of meerdere instellingen, klik dan op site-opties updaten onderaan de pagina.

8.2.1.1. Site instellingen

Site instellingen

Site-naam: Kies een naam voor je Mahara site. Die verschijnt op verschillende plaatsen op de site, bijvoorbeeld in de titelbalk van je browser en in e-mails die de site stuurt. Daarom mag die niet te lang zijn.

Taal: Bepaal de standaardtaal voor je site. Als je meerdere taalpakketten geïnstalleerd hebt, dan zie je een rolmenu. Anders wordt de standaardtaal, Engels, getoond.

Land: Het geselecteerde land is de standaard voor landselecties in Mahara, vb in in contact informatie.

Theme: Mahara comes with a number of themes that you can use. Choose one from the drop-down menu to make it the default theme for your site. If you have institutions set up, they can choose their own theme. You can search for community-contributed themes [https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Themes/Contributed_themes] on the Mahara wiki.

Drop-down navigation: If selected, the main Mahara navigation uses a drop-down menu for its sub navigation.

Show homepage information: If enabled, information about Mahara and how it is used is displayed on the homepage for logged-out and on the Dashboard for logged-in users. Logged-in users can disable this. See also Quick links.

Send weekly updates?: If checked, your site sends weekly updates to mahara.org [http://mahara.org] with some statistics about your site. See also Register your Mahara site.

Notitie

You can install more language packs. There is a complete list of them [http://langpacks.mahara.org/] as well as more information about the language packs [https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Language_Packs] on the wiki.

8.2.1.2. User settings

User settings

Users can choose page themes: If this setting is enabled, users can select a theme for their portfolio page. The page is displayed with this theme to other users. Thus, the institution or site theme can be overwritten.

Display remote avatars: If checked, users’ default profile pictures will be their Gravatar [http://gravatar.com] pictures (remote avatar). Users will need an account with Gravatar for this to work.

Users can hide real names: If checked, users who have set a display name may choose to be searchable only by their display name and will not be found in searches by their real name. In the administration section of the site, users are always searchable by their real names. An administrator (site and institution) always sees the display name, first and last name and username.

Search usernames: If checked, usernames can be searched on as part of “Search users” on the Dashboard and via Find friends.

Anonymous comments: If checked, logged-out users / users without a login can leave comments on public pages or pages they can access via a secret URL.

Logged-in profile access: If this option is unchecked, profile pages are initially viewable by all logged-in users, but the owner is allowed to restrict access to a smaller group if they wish. Enable this option if you want to make sure all users can see each others’ profile pages. Profiles of institution members will always be visible to other members of the same institution.

Staff report access: If enabled, institution staff will have access to the reports page for users in their institutions. This page is normally restricted to administrators and lists extra user information including page access lists.

new in Mahara 1.6 Staff statistics access: If enabled, institution staff will have access to the statistics for users in their institutions. This is normally restricted to administrators and site staff.

new in Mahara 1.6 Users can disable device detection: If checked, users can disable mobile device detection in their account settings. This allows them to be more flexible in what they can view and do on a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet. This setting is part of the responsive design changes to Mahara.

Notitie

If you use your own avatar server to provide profile pictures for your users, you can use that instead of Gravatar for the default profile pictures. In order to do so, you need to add $cfg->remoteavatarbaseurl = 'http://example.com/avatar/'; (with the correct URL to your service) to your config.php.

8.2.1.3. Search settings

Mahara comes with a search plugin that allows you to search for users and pages. If you install another search plugin, you will be able to select which one to use for your site.

Search settings

Zie ook

You can configure the internal search plugin in the administration of the search plugin.

8.2.1.4. Group settings

Mahara cannot only be used for individual work but also to work collaboratively in groups. Some settings are available in that area.

Group settings

Create groups: You decide whether administrators, administrators and staff or everyone can create groups. The default setting is the most permissive “everyone” because Mahara is user-centered and gives the individual users a great deal of control over what they want to do. If you choose to limit the group creation to administrators (and staff), these need to be contacted to set up groups. There is no internal group request system.

Create public groups: Choose whether everyone or only administrators can create public groups. These are groups for which you do not need to be a member of the group or even have a login for Mahara to view the group homepage, discussion forums (and member listing if the group administrator allowed that).

Allow group categories: If checked, site administrators can create categories for users to assign to their groups. These categories can be used to filter groups in My groups and Find groups.

Zie ook

Group categories are managed by site administrators in the groups area of the administration.

8.2.1.5. Institution settings

You can use Mahara with multiple institutions and separate them for administrative purposes, e.g. user management and permissions, and to give them a different theme.

Institution settings

Users allowed multiple institutions: If checked, users can be members of several institutions at the same time. Thus, a user who belongs to two or more institutions only needs one account.

Warning time for institution expiry: If set, a notification will be sent to site and institution administrators this amount of time before an institution is due to expire and be suspended. This time may be specified in days, weeks, months, years or “No end date”. If the latter option is chosen, institutions will not expire by default.

Auto-suspend expired institutions: If set, this option will allow Mahara to automatically suspend an institution that has expired automatically. This means that users of that institution will not be able to log in until the institution has been unsuspended.

8.2.1.6. Account settings

Account settings

Session lifetime: For security reasons, after a specified period of inactivity, a user will be logged off the site automatically. This field specifies this time in minutes. The default value is 1440 minutes (24 hours).

Default account lifetime: If set, user accounts will expire after this amount of time from when they were created. When a user account is expired, the user cannot log in. This time may be specified in days, weeks, months, years or “No end date”. If the latter option is chosen, accounts will not expire by default.

Default account inactivity time: If set, users who do not log in for this amount of time will be considered “inactive” and will not be able to log in anymore. This time may be specified in days, weeks, months, years or “No end date”. If the latter option is chosen, users are not set to “inactive” by default.

Warning time for inactivity / expiry: If set, a warning message will be sent to users this amount of time before their accounts are due to expire or become inactive. This time may be specified in days, weeks, months, years or “No end date”. If the latter is chosen, users do not receive a warning before their account expires or they are flagged as having an inactive account.

8.2.1.7. Security settings

Security settings

Virus checking: If you want all files that are uploaded by users to be run through the ClamAV virus scanner, you should select the virus checking option. You have to have ClamAV [http://www.clamav.net/] installed on your server. For security reasons, the path to ClamAV on your server needs to be provided in the config.php: $cfg->pathtoclam = 'YOUR_PATH_TO_CLAMSCAN';.

Anti-spam: There are three levels of anti-spam protection available for publicly visible forms such as the contact and registration forms. A form submission is never silently rejected. Rather, an error message is displayed asking the user to try again if the submission is classified as spam. The three choices are:

None: No anti-spam checks are performed on form submissions.

Simple: Some basic checks are performed. Form submissions with email addresses that are not well-formed or that have an excessive number of URLs are rejected.

Advanced: Performs additional checks to determine whether email addresses are real or contain URLs that are blacklisted. This requires an Internet connection.

Enable Spamhaus URL blacklist: If enabled, URLs will be checked against the Spamhaus DNSBL. The Spamhaus Project [http://www.spamhaus.org] provides a URL blacklist that is free for non-commercial, low-traffic use. A professional use datafeed service is also available but not supported in Mahara. Please read the Spamhaus DNSBL usage terms [http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/dnsblusage.html] before enabling this option.

Enable SURBL URL blacklist: If enabled, URLs will be checked against the SURBL DNSBL. SURBL [http://www.surbl.org] provides a URL blacklist that is free for organizations with fewer than 1000 users. A professional use datafeed service is also available, but not supported in Mahara. Please read the SURBL usage terms [http://www.surbl.org/usage-policy.html] before enabling this option.

Disable external resources in user HTML: Turning this option on will prevent users from embedding external resources such as images from remote sites into their forum posts and other HTML content. It is however a good thing to do from a security standpoint since it does neutralise a few clever phishing attacks. See the HTML Purifier documentation [http://htmlpurifier.org/live/configdoc/plain.html#URI.DisableExternalResources] for more details.

8.2.1.8. Proxy settings

Proxy settings

Proxy address: If your site uses a proxy server to access the Internet, specify the proxies in hostname:portnumber notation.

Proxy authentication model: Select your proxy’s authentication model (none or basic [NCSA]), if appropriate.

Proxy credentials: Enter the credentials required for your proxy to authenticate your web server in username:password format.

8.2.1.9. Email settings

Email settings

SMTP host: If you want to force Mahara to use a specific SMTP server instead of the system one, enter its hostname here, e.g. smtp.example.com. It is possible to specify more than one host by separating them with semicolons, e.g. smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com, but keep in mind that all other settings, e.g. authentication credentials and port numbers, will apply to all listed servers. It is not possible to specify different credentials for each server in this list. This feature is useful when SMTP host authentication is not required or you list different frontends for the same mail server in which case other settings will work.

SMTP port: If your SMTP server uses a port number different from 25, you may specify it here. When encryption is enabled, the default ports are 465 for SSL and 587 for TLS. You only need to specify a port number if it is different from these. Check the correct settings with your mail service provider.

User: If your SMTP server requires authentication, enter your username here.

Password: If your SMTP server requires authentication, enter your password here.

SMTP encryption: If your SMTP server supports encryption, enable it here.

System mail address: This email address is the address that emails are sent from Mahara.

Default notification method: Choose the notification method that is used for all notifications of new users on the site. The options are:

Email

Email digest

Inbox

8.2.1.10. General settings

General settings

Allow public pages: If checked, users can create portfolio pages that are accessible to the public rather than only to logged-in users.

Allow public profiles: If checked, users can set their profile pages to be accessible to the public rather than only to logged-in users. However, only logged-in users can use interactive features such as the wall. If the option “Allow public pages” is chosen, “Allow public profiles” is automatically selected.

Generate sitemap: If checked, sitemap files from publicly accessible pages, groups and forum topics are generated that can be sent to another service.

Enable portfolio search: If checked, the “Search my portfolio” side block is displayed in the Content and Portfolio sections of the site. However, it has not been working for most users for a long time.

Enable tag cloud: If checked, users see a side block in the Content and Portfolio sections of the site with a list of their most frequently used tags. The number of tags displayed is defined by the option “Maximum tags in cloud”.

Maximum tags in cloud: Enter the default number of tags to display in user tag clouds. Users can change this number in their account settings.

Small page headers: If checked, a small header and site navigation block are displayed when viewing or editing portfolio pages instead of the standard header. This option gives more space for the portfolio content itself. new in Mahara 1.6 The small page header is visible at all times when you are on a portfolio page.

Show online users: If checked, users see a side block with a list of the users who have been logged-in in the last 10 minutes (cf. the dashboard).

Online users limit: Enter the maximum number of users to display in the Online users side block.

Registration agreement: If checked, you force users to agree to the “Terms and Conditions” before registration. You should edit your site’s “Terms and Conditions” page before enabling this option. You can do so under Edit site pages.

Allow mobile uploads: If checked, users have the option of setting authentication tokens in their account settings. That allows them to upload content from their mobile devices. new in Mahara 1.6 You can enter more than one token in order to connect mutliple mobile devices.

HTML editor: Choose whether the HTML editor is used by default or not. If set to User-defined, users will be allowed to choose whether to use the HTML editor in their personal settings or not. Otherwise the specified setting will be used site-wide.

8.2.2. Edit site pages

Administration → Configure site → Edit site pages

Here you can edit the content of some pages around the site and the pages linked to in the footer:

About

Home (Dashboard)

Logged-out home

Privacy statement

Terms and conditions

All pages come with default text that you can change entirely. Every page must contain some text. You can use the visual editor to style your page.

Edit site pages

Page name: Choose the page you want to edit from the drop-down menu.

Page text: Change the text in the editor window. You cannot leave this field empty.

Click the Save changes button.

Notitie

new in Mahara 1.6 If your site has added custom pages to the menu, e.g. like MyPortfolio.school.nz [http://myportfolio.school.nz] where you have a number of additional informational pages, you can now edit their content from the Edit site pages screen. In order to do so, a server administrator needs to make changes on the backend [https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/999464].

8.2.3. Menus

Administration → Configure site → Menus

There are two menus in Mahara:

Links and resources

Footer

8.2.3.1. Links and resources

The Links and resources menu appears to all users on most pages in the side bar. You can decide which links or files are available to everybody - also those without a login - and which ones only logged-in users shall see.

Add external links to the Links and resources menu

Choose which Links and resources menu you want to edit: the public or the logged-in users one.

Choose the type External link.

Give your link a name that will appear in the menu.

Provide the full URL to the link including http:// or https://.

Click the Add button.

Once you have added links and files to your menus, you can edit or delete them.

You can also link to files that you have uploaded to the site files area.

Add a site file to the Links and resources menu

Choose which Links and resources menu you want to edit: the public or the logged-in users one.

Choose the type Site file.

Give your site file a name that will appear in the menu.

Choose the file you want to display from the drop-down menu.

Click the Add button.

You can make changes to the name or choose a different file when you click the Edit button.

You can remove the file from the menu by clicking the Delete button. This will only delete the reference to the file in the menu but not the file itself.

Notitie

If you wish to display your links and resources in a specific order, map that order out before you add the links and files because you cannot change the order afterwards.

Links and resources menu result

8.2.3.2. Footer menu

You have control over which links are displayed in the footer on each page.

Footer menu

Select which site pages shall appear in the footer on each page. You can change the text of “Terms and conditions”, “Privacy statement” and “About” in Edit site pages.

If you want to link any of these pages to an existing external page, provide the URL in the respective text field.

Click the Save changes button to save your settings.

8.2.4. Networking

Administration → Configure site → Networking

Mahara’s networking features allow it to communicate with other Mahara or Moodle [http://moodle.org] sites. If networking is enabled, you can use it to configure single sign-on (SSO) for users who log in at either Moodle or Mahara or allow users from another Mahara instance to access yours.

From Moodle 2.0 on you can connect Mahara and Moodle to save certain content you created in Moodle through the portfolio feature [http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Portfolios].

Networking overview

In order to use networking site-wide with any institution, you need to:

Enable networking: Choose “Yes” from the drop-down menu.

Auto-register all hosts: If you choose “Yes”, an institution is created for any host that connects allowing these users to log in to your Mahara site. We recommend you leave the default “No” because that gives you more control over which Moodle or Mahara instances can connect.

Click the Save changes button.

Delete this key: Click the Delete button if you want to generate a new key for your Mahara site.

Depending on which site you wish to connect, you may need to provide some of the other information on the page, in particular the WWW root and the public key.

Zie ook

The comprehensive guide for setting up a Mahoodle [https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php?title=System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Moodle%2F%2FMahara_Integration] can be consulted when connecting Mahara and Moodle.

You set up MNet for an institution when you edit the authentication method XML-RPC.

8.2.5. Pages

Administration → Configure site → Pages

You create and copy site pages like regular portfolio pages. You do not have all blocks available. Check the blocks in various contexts for blocks that you can use in site pages.

Site pages

Click the Create page button to start a new page from scratch.

Click the Copy a page button to choose an existing page of yours or another user as basis for a new page.

Search: Enter your search term and decide in which context you wish to search it for within the site pages. Click the Search button to start your search.

You see the title and description of a site page.

Click the Edit button edit to make changes to an existing site page.

Click the Delete button delete to remove a site page.

Once you are done creating your site pages, you can share them with others.

Notitie

For example, you can create site pages with informational content to share with other users or you can create templates which users can copy into their own accounts.

8.2.6. new in Mahara 1.6 Collections

Administration → Configure site → Collections

You create and copy site collections like regular portfolio collections.

Site collections

Create a new collection by clicking the New collection button.

Copy an existing collection by clicking the Copy a collection button.

Click on the collection title to go to the first page of the collection.

View the description of this collection.

Click on any title of a page within a collection to jump directly to it.

Click the Manage button manage to move pages within a collection, add to or delete pages from a collection.

Click the Edit button edit to change the title and description of a collection.

Click the Delete button delete to delete the collection. The pages will still exist.

Once you are done creating your site collections, you can share them with others.

8.2.7. Share

Administration → Configure site → Share

You share site pages and new in Mahara 1.6 site collections like any other pages and collections.

Zie ook

Refer to the share options for regular portfolio pages and collections for further information.

Share site pages and collections

When you want to allow copying, you have a few more options available than on regular pages or collections.

Copying site pages and collections

Allow copying: Place a check mark here to see the following copying options.

Copy for new users: Enable this option if all new users on the site - and not just in one institution - shall receive a copy of the selected page(s) or collection(s) into their portfolios.

Copy for new groups: Select the course groups that have members, tutors and administrators if you want them to receive a copy of the selected page(s) or collection(s).

Copy for new groups: Select the standard groups that have members and administrators if you want them to receive a copy of the selected page(s) or collection(s).

8.2.8. Files

Administration → Configure site → Files

Here you can upload files that you can include in the links and resources menu or in site pages. You can add files that are in the home directory to the menu with resources for logged-in users. Files that you save in the public folder can be used in the menu for users who are not logged-in. Additionally, users can put them into their own portfolio pages as files to download.

Zie ook

The process of uploading and managing files is very similar to files in your personal files area.

Site files

8.3. Users

Administration → Users

In the Users menu of the administration site administrators can:

search for users

change settings for individual users

suspend and delete users

make users site staff or administrators

check the administrator notification settings

add and update users manually or by CSV

view reports

In the Users menu of the administration institution administrators can:

search for users

change settings for individual users

suspend and delete users

check the administrator notification settings for their institution’s administrators

add and update users manually or by CSV

view reports

8.3.1. User search

Administration → Users → User search

Notitie

Site administrators can search for any user on the entire site while institution administrators can only search among the users of their institution(s).

You can search for their

first name

last name

display name

username

email address

User search

You can combine any search and filter options. However, if you use too many, you may not yield any results.

Filter the users you wish to display by their initials of the first and / or last name.

Search: Type the name, display name, username or email address or any partial thereof you wish to search for in the search field. If you turned on the exact search, you need to provide the correct name or email address and not a partial one.

Institution: Choose the institution from the drop-down menu in which you wish to search for the user.

Click the Go button to start searching.

Results per page: Decide how many results per page you want to view.

View your results. The default order is alphabetical according to the first name. However, you can change the order of the results by clicking on a heading and sort that column in ascending or descending order. new in Mahara 1.6 The profile picture and the name are linked to the profile page of the user.

Click on the username of the user for which you want to take further actions.

Select all or just a few users for bulk actions.

Click the Edit button to perform the bulk actions to

suspend users

delete users

change the authentication method of users

Click the Get reports button to

view user reports

download user account information for further actions

8.3.1.1. User bulk actions

You can perform a number of bulk actions for users on the Bulk actions page.

User bulk actions

Once you have selected users for whom you wish to perform the same action on the User search page and clicked the Edit button, you can take any of the following steps.

Selected users: Review the users you have selected for performing bulk actions.

Reason: Provide a reason for suspending the users listed on this page. You need to click the Suspend button in order to suspend the users.

Click the Suspend button to prevent these users from accessing their accounts.

Change authentication method: Choose a new authentication method from the drop-down menu for the users listed on this page.

Click the Submit button to change the authentication method to the new one.

Click the Delete button to delete accounts and all of their content of the users listed on this page.

Waarschuwing

When you delete accounts, all user data will be lost and cannot be recovered unless from a server backup file.

8.3.1.2. User reports

You can download basic user information for easier updating of these via a CSV file.

User reports

In order to get to the User reports page, you must select users for whom you wish to perform the same action on the User search page and click on the Get reports button.

Selected users: You can then review the user information that will be included in the CSV file.

Export users in CSV format: Click the Download link to download the information that you see on this page as CSV file.

Notitie

You can use this CSV file later on for updating existing accounts.

In addition to downloading basic user information, you can also view all the pages that have been created by the users and with whom they have been shared. This facilitates for example troubleshooting when users cannot view pages of others and the administrator would have to log in to the user account to check page permissions.

Notitie

This list is only available to site and institution administrators unless staff receive access to this list as well. The site administrator can decide that in the User settings in the option “Staff report access”.

User report page access list

Click the Access list tab on the User reports page.

The owners of the pages are listed.

All the pages that the users have created are listed. If a collection is listed instead, the number of pages it contains is displayed.

The users or groups of people who have access to any page or collection are displayed.

Notitie

Though all pages, collections and groups are linked, you may not have direct access to them if you are not on the access list or a member of the group yourself.

8.3.2. User account settings

Administration → Users → User search → Click on a username

On the Account settings page of a user in the administration area, you can perform a number of actions to manage the user’s account. However, you cannot change personal information about this user, e.g. name or email, from this page. This can only be done in the Content area of the user’s account or via the Add users by CSV page.

Overview of the user account settings page

Log in as this user.

Change site account settings.

Change institution settings.

Suspend this user.

Delete this user.

8.3.2.1. Log in as

As administrator you have the power to log in as any user that you manage and masquerade as them.

Notitie

Site administrator can log in as any user while institution administrators can only perform this action for users who are members of their institution(s).

It is a great function for troubleshooting a user account because you see everything as the user would without having to know the password.

Waarschuwing

This function can be misused by administrators because you can make changes to the user’s portfolio and artefacts as well as participate in groups while logged in as that user. Users should be aware of this function and that an administrator can enter their account.

Sites should have clear policies around the use of this function so that the privacy of users and their portfolios and collaborative work is protected. Therefore, there should also not be many users within an institution who have administrator rights.

Log in as another user

Click on the user’s name to go to this user’s profile page. You can then click the Log in as … link to become that user.

Click the Log in as button to become that user. You see a red bar at the top of the browser window telling you that you are masquerading as that user.

Stop masquerading as another user

When you want to return to your own account again, click the Become [your name] again link at the top of the browser window.

8.3.2.2. Change site account settings

You can view and change a number of settings for a user’s account.

Notitie

Depending on the authentication method that is associated with this user, you may not be able to edit all settings.

Site account settings of a user

Change username: Give the user a different username. This field is not available when the account is managed by an external authentication method.

Reset password: Change the password for this user account. This field is not available when the account is managed by an external authentication method.

Force password change on next login: Check this box if the user shall change the password upon the next login. This field is not available when the account is managed by an external authentication method.

Site staff: Check this box if the user shall become a staff member for the entire site.

Site administrator: Check this box if the user shall have full administrative rights for the entire site.

Disable email: Check this box to disable the sending of emails for this user. If email is disabled, notifications and messages can only be viewed in the internal inbox. new in Mahara 1.6 You can set up your Mahara site so that emails are disabled automatically if they are bounced back [https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/993018].

Account expires: Choose the date on which the user’s login is automatically disabled. The default setting is that the date is not specified. You always see the current date in the greyed out date fields. You can set an automatic account expiry date for all users in the account settings of the site configuration.

File quota: Change the storage allowance for a user’s personal files area. Institution administrators may not be able to update the quota if the site administrator disallowed that. The default value as set in the files configuration in the plugin administration.

Quota used: You can see how much this user has already used of their allocated quota.

Authentication method: Choose the authentication method for this user. A site administrator can set up the authentication methods in the institution administration. Depending on the authentication method that you have chosen, you may have to provide a remote username to allow the user to log in.

Username for external authentication: Add or change the remote username for the chosen external authentication method here. Per default, if no external authentication method is chosen, the internal username is displayed.

Tags: A user can be tagged by an administrator. The tag of the institution to which the user belonged prior to joining a new institution is not displayed to avoid its deletion.

Click the Save changes button when you are done editing the settings.

Waarschuwing

When the email address is disabled, users cannot reset their passwords themselves as no email can be sent.

8.3.2.3. Change institution settings

You can view and change settings regarding a user’s membership in institutions. Depending on the site settings for institutions, a user may be added to more than one institution.

Institution settings for a user

Institution: Choose the institution to which you want to add this user from the drop-down menu.

Click the Add user to institution button to make this user a member of this institution.

Membership expires: If you wish, specify the date when the user will be removed from this institution automatically. If you click the “Not specified” check box, no end date will be set. The date displayed in the greyed out date boxes is always the current one when “Not specified” is chosen.

ID number: Provide an optional identifier for this user in this institution. This field is not editable by the user.

Institution staff: Check this box if you want to give this user staff rights in this institution. This will allow them to create controlled groups for example.

Institution admin: Check this box if you want to make this user an administrator of this institution. This will allow them to manage all users in this institution for example.

Click the Update button to save your changes.

Click the Remove user from this institution button to disassociate this user from this institution. The user’s account will not be deleted. The user will only not be associated with this institution anymore.

8.3.2.4. Suspend user

Suspend a user if they do not follow the terms and conditions of the site and behave inappropriately. Suspended users cannot log in, but all their content is still available.

Suspend a user

Reason: Provide a reason for your suspension. This is particularly useful when you are not the only administrator and / or need to remember after some time why you suspended this user.

Click the Suspend user button to disallow the user from logging in.

Suspension notice on the user account settings page

When a user has been suspended, the suspension message appears on the user’s account settings page stating the reason and the date for the suspension and giving the administrators the possibility to unsuspend the user by clicking the Unsuspend user button.

Suspended user tries to log in and gets suspension message

When the user tries to log in, they will see the suspension message and the reason. They can then contact an administrator via the “Contact us” form for further action.

8.3.2.5. Delete user

Users can delete their own accounts in their account settings if self-registration is allowed to by their institution. Administrators can also delete user accounts at any time.

Delete a user account

Click the Delete user button to delete this user account permanently. This action cannot be undone. As this is a permanent action, you see a confirmation pop-up window that you will have to acknowledge.

Waarschuwing

When you delete a user account, all personal data is wiped from the system. This applies to everything that is in a user’s Content and Portfolio area. This action cannot be undone. The user’s contributions in groups, e.g. forum messages, uploaded files and pages created in a group, are still available, but are made anonymous by changing the name to “Deleted user” as author where an author is shown.

Notitie

If an account was deleted by accident - either by a user or by an administrator - swift action may result in recovery of (most of) the data from a backup file. This requires access to the server’s backups and the backend of Mahara. More information is available on the wiki under Restoring a deleted user [https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Restoring_a_deleted_user].

8.3.3. Suspended and expired users

Administration → Users → Suspended and expired users

A list of all suspended and expired users is available in the sub-menu Suspended and expired users. Here you can unsuspend / reactivate or delete them.

Notitie

Site administrators see all users whereas institution administrators only see users who are members of their institution(s).

List of all suspended or expired users

Show: Select whether you wish to see suspended or expired users.

Select the user(s) for which you want to perform the same action.

Click the Reactivate expired users button if you want to allow these users access to their accounts again.

Click the Delete users button to delete all selected users in bulk. This action cannot be undone and all personal information of these users will be deleted (see delete user).

Click the Unsuspend users button to reinstate the accounts for all selected users.

Waarschuwing

When you delete a user account, all personal data is wiped from the system. This applies to everything that is in a user’s Content and Portfolio area. This action cannot be undone. The user’s contributions in groups, e.g. forum messages, uploaded files and pages created in a group, are still available, but are made anonymous by changing the name to “Deleted user” as author where an author is shown.

8.3.4. Site staff

Administration → Users → Site staff

Notitie

Site staff is only accessible by site administrators.

On this page you can choose which users receive site staff rights. Potential staff members - any user on the site - are listed on the left while existing site staff members are listed on the right.

Give site staff rights

Potential staff: Select the users you wish to make site staff. You can select multiple users at once using Ctrl and Shift click.

Search: If you have too many users on your site and you cannot see / find the users you want, you can search for them here.

Add the potential staff members to the right-hand side - Current staff - by clicking the right-arrow button right-arrow.

Current staff: If you want to remove an existing or accidentally added site staff member, you can remove the user from the list on the right-hand side by clicking on the user.

Then click the left-arrow button left-arrow, and the user is removed from the list.

When you have chosen all members you wish to make site staff, click the Submit button.

Notitie

You can also double-click a name and it will be moved to the other side.

8.3.5. Site administrators

Administration → Users → Site administrators

Notitie

Site administrators is only accessible by site administrators.

Site administrators have powerful rights. They can make far-reaching changes and also log in as other users. Be careful whom you give these rights. One site administrator is needed for each site. The total number of site administrators should be kept small.

Give site admin rights

Potential administrators: Select the users you wish to make site administrators. You can select multiple users at once using Ctrl and Shift click.

Search: If you have too many users on your site and you cannot see / find the users you want, you can search for them here.

Add the potential site admin to the right-hand side - Current administrators - by clicking the right-arrow button right-arrow.

Current administrators: If you want to remove an existing or accidentally added site administrator, you can remove the user from the list on the right-hand side by clicking on the user.

Then click the left-arrow button left-arrow, and the user is removed from the list.

When you have chosen all members you wish to make site administrators, click the Submit button.

Notitie

You can also double-click a name and it will be moved to the other side.

8.3.6. Add user

Administration → Users → Add user

You can add users to your site (site administrator) or your institution (institution administrator) by creating accounts for them manually one by one.

Add a user manually

Click the Create new user from scratch radio button if you want to create an empty account. Provide the first name, last name and email address for this user.

Click the Upload Leap2A file radio button if you want to import a user from another Mahara instance or a system that supports the Leap2A standard. Such a user could have exported their portfolio from another Mahara instance.

Username: Give the new user a username. It may contain letters, numbers and most common symbols. It must be from 3 to 236 characters in length. Spaces are not allowed.

Password: Choose a password for the account. The password must be at least six characters long.

Site staff: Check this box if the new user should have site staff rights. Only site administrators see this option.

Site administrator: Check this box if the new user should have site administrator rights. Only site administrators see this option.

Institution: Choose the institution of which the user should be a member.

File quota: Review the allocated file quota. You may change it here for this user if you are allowed to.

Institution administrator: Check this box if the new user should have institution administrator rights in the chosen institution.

General account options: Expand this menu to see default account options that you may choose to change while creating this user. These are the general account options a user can change on the Settings page.

Click the Create user button.

The user will receive an email with the account details.

Notitie

You can only define the default account settings for a user account, but not force the user to keep them forever. You could only do that by customising the system on the code level.

8.3.7. Add and update users by CSV

Administration → Users → Add users by CSV

You can use this function to upload new users in bulk via a CSV file (comma-separated file) and to update existing users. The first row of your CSV file should specify the format of your data. For example, it should look like this:

username,password,email,firstname,lastname,studentid

For new users, this row must include:

username

password

email

firstname

lastname

Notitie

If you want to update existing users, you do not need to set a password.

You can mix new and existing accounts in your CSV file.

Your file must also include fields that are mandatory for all users to fill out and any fields locked for the institution you are uploading the users for.

All other fields are optional. This is the full list of additional fields that you can add in your CSV file upload.

address - Street address

aimscreenname - AIM screen name

blogaddress - URL to the blog

businessnumber - Work phone number

city - City

country - Country

faxnumber - Fax number

homenumber - Home phone number

industry - Industry is displayed in the profile

introduction - Introduction is displayed in the profile

icqnumber - ICQ nickname

jabberusername - Jabber ID

maildisabled - Selection to disable the email address

mobilenumber - Mobile phone number

msnnumber - MSN nickname

occupation - Occupation is displayed in the profile

officialwebsite - Official web site

personalwebsite - Personal web site

preferredname - Display name

remoteuser - Remote username for external authentication

skypeusername - Skype ID

studentid - Student ID is displayed in the profile

town - Town

yahoochat - Yahoo Chat username

Your CSV file could look for example like the following:

username,email,firstname,lastname,studentid,preferredname,remoteuser, password

"percy","percy@pearle.net","Percy","Pearle","","","percy.pearle","mahara1"

"petra","petra@petterson.net","Petra","Petterson","","","petra.petterson","mahara1"

"polly","polly@potter.net","Polly","Potter","","","polly.potter","mahara1"

"admin","admin@mahara.school","Admin","User","","","","mahara1"

"jamesj","james@jetts.com","James","Jetts","","","","mahara1"

When you have created your CSV file, you are ready to upload it.

Add users by CSV file

Institution: Choose the institution and the authentication method for the user accounts that you upload and / or change.

File quota: If you wish, you can set a different file quota for all accounts in the CSV file. Institution administrators can only do so if the site administrator allowed it.

CVS file: You must upload a CSV file by clicking the Browse button and then selecting it from the files area on your computer.

Force password change: If you select this option, users need to change their password before they can log in for the first time.

Email users about their account: If you select this option, users will receive an email with their account information. This is in particular good for internal accounts. For user accounts that are managed for example by Moodle or through LDAP, you do not have to select this option because the users should already know their login information.

Update users: Select this option if your CSV file contains changes for existing users.

General account options: Expand this menu to see default account options that you may choose to change while creating or updating users. These are the general account options a user can change on the Settings page.

Click the Add users by CSV button to upload and / or change users.

Notitie

Depending on your server settings and / or the size of your installation, you may not be able to upload all user accounts at once. You may wish to upload them in bunches of 100 instead.

8.3.8. Change the authentication method and remote username in bulk

After you have successfully invited or added new members into your institution, you can change their authentication method. That can be useful if the authentication method differs from the one in the previous institution and you want to link the new accounts to a remote username using:

LDAP directory

Moodle accounts via MNet

Single sign-on through an IdP provider

Notitie

The change in the authentication method for existing accounts should be done before users try to log in with their new credentials to avoid the creation of a second account for these users.

You can change the authentication method for multiple users at once to save you time manually updating each user. Changing the authentication method usually also entails changing the remote username (a.k.a. username for external authentication). Therefore, these two are dealt with together to describe the work flow better.

Find users in an institution to change their remote username

Go to Administration → Users → User search.

From the drop-down menu choose the institution in which the members are whose authentication method and remote username you want to change / add.

Click the Go button to limit your results to these institution members.

Change the Results per page if you wish to see more than 10 users per page.

Select the users whose authentication method and remote username you want to change by either putting a check mark in the check boxes or clicking on All to select all users on that page.

Click the Get reports button to proceed to the next step. You are taken to the User reports page.

User reports page

Update the CSV file with remote username and password

Update user accounts in bulk

Export users in CSV format: Click the Download link so that you get a CSV file which contains all necessary information for you to change the users’ remote username in bulk. This is necessary if their internal Mahara username is not the same as the one they use to authenticate on your system that is linked to Mahara or if they already have a remote username that would be incorrect for your institution.

Open the CSV file in your preferred spreadsheet software. In the column remoteuser, add or change the username that your users have when authenticating in your regular system that you have connected to Mahara. You may also change other fields, e.g. their name, email address etc. If you want to add a new user directly in this CSV file, you can do so as well.

Go to Administration → Users → Add users by CSV.

Institution: Choose the correct institution and authentication method for which you want to update your users. This allows you to switch all users in the CSV file from one authentication method to another.

CSV file: Choose the CSV file from your computer that you had updated.

Update users: Put a check mark here because you want to update existing user accounts.

General account options: You can make changes to the default account options for all the users, e.g. give them multiple journals by default, change their interface language etc.

Click the Add users by CSV button to start the user update. This process may take a little while depending on how many users you are changing.

You receive a report on the page upon the successful completion of the upgrade. If the upgrade fails, error messages help you to resolve the problem. No users are updated until all errors are resolved.

Notitie

If you intend to update more than 100 users at the same time, you may run into problems, and the server may reject your CSV file as the update process is a very memory intense one. If that is the case, you would have to split your CSV file into smaller ones with fewer users in them.

You can check that the accounts had their remote usernames added:

Go to Administration → Users → User search.

Select the institution in which the members are whom you want to check.

Click the Go button to limit your user results to this institution.

Select the users for whom you want to check the remote usernames.

Click the Get reports button to proceed to the next step. You are taken to the User reports page.

You see the remote username in the last column.

Zie ook

If you only want to change the authentication method of certain users but do not have to worry about a remote username or updating any other information, you can change the authentication method directly on the bulk actions screen.

8.4. Groups

Administration → Groups

In the Groups menu of the administration site administrators can:

add administrators to groups

delete groups

manage group categories

Add and update groups in bulk

Add and update group membership in bulk

In the Groups menu of the administration institution administrators can:

Add and update groups in bulk

Add and update group membership in bulk

8.4.1. Administer groups

Administration → Groups → Administer groups

Notitie

Administer groups is only accessible by site administrators.

You see an overview of all the groups on the site.

Administer groups

Search a group by its name or category.

Group name: The table is sorted alphabetically according to the group name. new in Mahara 1.6 The group names are linked for easy access to their group homepages.

Members: Number of group members in each group.

Administrators: Number of group administrators per group.

Group type: Overview of whether and how users can join this group.

Group category: Display of the group category that is associated with this group.

Visibility: Overview of who has access to this group - members or the public.

Click the Manage button manage to change the group file quota or to add or remove group administrators.

Click the Delete button delete to delete a group.

Waarschuwing

When you delete a group all its content - forum posts, files and pages - will be deleted permanently and cannot be restored.

8.4.1.1. Group file quota

You can specify a default group file quota in Plugins. This allows you to limit the file space that each group can take up. Here you can update the file quota for just one group.

Change the group file quota

You get to this page by clicking the Manage button manage next to a group on the Administer groups page.

File quota: Change the file quota that this particular group can have.

Click the Save button to save your change.

8.4.1.2. Add or remove administrators

Add to or remove administrators from a group by clicking the Manage button manage next to a group on the Administer groups page.

Add or remove group administrators

Potential administrators: Select the users you wish to make group administrators. You can select multiple users at once using Ctrl and Shift click.

Search: If you have too many users on your site and you cannot see / find the users you want, you can search for them here.

Add the potential group administrators to the right-hand side - Current administrators - by clicking the right-arrow button right-arrow.

Current administrators: If you want to remove an existing or accidentally added group administrator, you can remove the user from the list on the right-hand side by clicking on the user.

Then click the left-arrow button left-arrow, and the user is removed from the list.

When you have chosen all members you wish to make group administrators, click the Submit button.

Notitie

You can also double-click a name and it will be moved to the other side.

8.4.2. Group categories

Administration → Groups → Group categories

Notitie

Group categories is only accessible by site administrators.

Group categories help you to filter your groups more easily on the My groups and Find groups pages. A group administrator can always assign one group category to a group if categories are enabled.

Manage group categories

Enable group categories: Tick this check box to enable group categories for the entire site.

Click the Submit button to save your choice.

Name: Existing group categories are listed.

Create a new group category by typing its name and then clicking the Add button.

Edit a group category name by clicking the Edit button edit, change the name and then click the Update button. If you want to abort the action, click the Cancel button.

Click the Delete button delete to permanently delete this group category.

Notitie

Group categories are not hierarchical and are available to everybody on the site. Any user who can create groups can assign a group category when the feature has been enabled.

8.4.3. Add and update groups by CSV

Administration → Groups → Add groups by CSV

Notitie

Both site and institution administrators can add and update groups by CSV file.

You can create multiple groups at once by uploading basic information about them via a CSV file.

Add and update groups by CSV

Create a CSV file that contains at a minimum the fields shortname,displayname,roles.

Institution: Choose the institution for which you want to create the groups. This is just for internal administrative purposes so that institution administrators do not overwrite each other’s groups.

CSV file: Choose the CSV file from your computer that contains the groups.

Update groups: Place a check mark in this box if you are updating already existing groups.

Click the Add groups by CSV button to make the changes.

Here is a full list of all the possible fields that you can specify:

controlled - Group administrators can add users to the group without their consent, and members cannot leave the group.

description - Brief description about the purpose of this group.

displayname - The group name that appears around the site.

editroles - You can choose which roles will be allowed to create and edit pages owned by the group. If your group contains only members and administrators, then “Group administrators” and “Everyone except members” are identical. These edit permissions will also be used by default for new group files. Permissions can be changed on individual files in the group files area.

all: everyone in the group

notmembers: everyone except members in a course group that has tutors and administrators

admin: only group administrators

hidden - Choose to not list this group on the Find groups page.

hidemembers - Choose to hide group members from non-members.

hidemembersfrommembers - Choose to hide group members from everybody but the group administrator.

invitefriends - Choose to allow group members to invite their friends to the group.

open - Allow users to join the group without approval from the group administrator.

public - Allow people who are not logged in to view this group including the forums.

quota - Define the group file quota.

request - Allow users to send membership requests to group administrators.

roles - Choose to have a course or standard group. The roles in these group types are:

course: member, tutor, administrator

standard: member, administrator

shortname - This is the name used to identify this group in the database. This should be only one word. It is also used to identify the group when you add or update its members by CSV.

submitpages - Choose to allow the submission of pages to this group. If you create a course group, this setting is automatically chosen.

suggestfriends - Allow group members to send their friends a recommendation to join this group.

usersautoadded - Choose to have all new users on the site added to the group automatically.

Notitie

For fields that require a Yes / No value, you need to put a numeric value into the CSV file:

No = 0

Yes = 1

Sample CSV file for a group upload

When you look at your CSV file in a text editor and not a spreadsheet software, the above sample file looks like this:

"shortname","displayname","roles","usersautoadded","public","hidemembersfrommembers"

"public","Public group","standard",0,1,1

"course","Course group","course",1,0,0

Waarschuwing

Do not delete this CSV file if you intend to make changes to your groups in bulk or if you want to add group members in bulk to these groups. There is no easy way to retrieve the group shortname unless you consult the database on the backend of Mahara.

8.4.4. Update group members by CSV

Administration → Groups → Update group members by CSV

Notitie

Both site and institution administrators can add and update group members by CSV file.

You can easily update members of groups that you have created via a CSV file.

Update group members by CSV

Create a CSV file that contains the following fields: shortname,username,role in the first row. Then add groups and users that should become members of these groups. You can check their usernames on the User search page.

Institution: Choose the institution in which the groups were created.

CSV file: Choose the CSV file from your computer that contains the group members mapped to groups.

Click the Update group members by CSV button to add to or remove members from the groups that you have specified.

Waarschuwing

If you manually added users to a group whose members you want to update via CSV file, these users will be removed from that group when you update the group membership and do not have them listed in the CSV file. Thus, be careful once you have added users manually.

Notitie

You can only update group membership by CSV of users who belong to the institution in which you created the groups by CSV. All other users must be added manually.

Sample CSV file for updating group membership

When you look at your CSV file in a text editor and not a spreadsheet software, the above sample file looks like this:

"shortname","username","role"

"public","petra","admin"

"public","paula","member"

"course","petra","admin"

"course","percy","tutor"

"course","paula","member"

Notitie

If you have many groups and could easily lose the overview, create one CSV file per group.

8.5. Institutions

Administration → Institutions

You can use Mahara as multi-tenanted instance. That means that several different institutions can share one Mahara installation. All users from these different institutions can:

share portfolio pages with each other

give feedback on each other’s pages

work collaboratively in groups across institution boundaries

In Administration you can set up as many institutions as you wish. Institution administrators can only administer their users and their institutions but not make any changes to site settings.

You can also set up institutions for different parts of your organisation to use different themes, have different default settings and / or authentication methods.

8.5.1. Overview

Administration → Institutions → Institutions (site administrator)

Administration → Institutions → Settings (institution administrator)

You see an overview of all institutions that exist on this Mahara installation (site administrator) or that you have access to as institution administrator.

Notitie

Institution administrators who manage only one institution do not see this page, but immediately the settings for their only institution.

Overview page for institutions

Search: Search for a particular institution by its name and then click the Search button.

Institution: Institutions are listed alphabetically. If you click the institution’s name, you are taken to the contacts page.

Members: Number of registered members in this institution.

Maximum: Maximum allowed members in this institution.

Staff: Number of institution members with staff rights.

Administrators: Number of institution members with institution administrator rights.

Click the Edit button edit to change institution settings.

Click the Delete button delete to delete an institution. You can only delete an institution when there are no members in it.

Click the Add institution button when you want to create a new institution. This button is only visible to site administrators.

Click the Edit members button when you want to add or remove members from an institution.

Click the Edit staff button when you want to add or revoke staff rights for an institution member.

Click the Edit administrators button when you want to add or revoke institution administrator rights for an institution member.

Notitie

The institution “No institution” is the default “institution”. It cannot be deleted as it is the standard Mahara site.

8.5.2. Add an institution

Notitie

Only site administrators can add institutions. However, once an institution exists, institution administrators can change many of the settings.

When you want to add an institution by clicking the Add button on Administration → Institutions → Institutions, you need to provide some basic information for the new institution. You can change all settings except the Institution name later on.

Add a new institution

Institution name: This field is required. It is the unique identifier of this institution in the database. It must be one word without numbers and symbols.

Institution display name: This field is required. It is the name that all users see throughout the site to identify this institution.

Institution expiry date: Set the expiry date for this institution by selecting the year, month and day from the drop-down menus when taking the check mark off the “Not specified” check box. Institutions do not expire by default.

If you specify an expiry date for this institution, once the warning time for institution expiry has been reached, site and institution administrators will receive a otification about this institution’s impending expiry.

If the auto-suspend expired institutions option is set, then once the expiry date has been reached, this institution will be automatically suspended, and users of this institution will no longer be able to log in.

The warning time for institution expiry and the auto-suspend expired institutions options can be found in the institution settings under Administration → Configure site → Site options.

Registration allowed: Check this box when you want to allow self-registration of new users. As institution administrators, you will be asked to confirm that users can join your institution. If you decline, their new account will be associated with “No institution” unless you have the Confirm registration option clicked. When you do not allow registration, nobody can register a new account, ask to join your institution or leave it without your permission.

Confirm registration: Check this box if you want to control that no new accounts are created unless the administrator approves the registration. You receive a notification about pending registrations when a new user wants to register.

Default membership period: You can set how long users will remain associated with this institution per default. Choose an option from the drop-down menu and then specify the number of days, weeks, months or years. After this length of time, the users will be removed from the institution. Users will receive a notification before this time reminding them that they will be removed soon. However, that does not mean that they will lose their account. They will still have that and be associated with “No institution”.

Logo: You can upload an image that will be displayed to your institution’s members in place of the standard header logo.

Theme: Use the drop-down menu to choose the theme that you wish to use for this institution. All pages in that institution will receive that theme. When users from other institutions view portfolio pages that were created in this institution, they will see this institution’s theme on these pages. If Site default is selected, when a site administrator changes the site default theme, the theme for the users of this institution will change, too. You can install more themes in the theme folder on the server. Check out the community-contributed themes [https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Themes/Contributed_themes]. If users are allowed to have page themes, these pages are not affected by theme changes. Mahara also has a configurable theme which allows you to create a theme on the fly.

Show online users: If the site administrator allowed the “Online users” side block, you can decide which group of users you want to have displayed for this institution:

None: The side block is not displayed to institution members.

Institution online: Only institution members are displayed in the side block.

All: All users on the site are displayed in the side block

Default quota: You can set the amount of file quota new users registering with this institution shall have.

Update user quota: If you check this box, the default quota you choose above will be applied to all existing institution members.

Allow institution public pages: Put a check mark into this box if you want to allow users belonging to this institution to create portfolio pages that are accessible to the public rather than only to logged-in users. If you allow public pages, users can also create secret URLs for their pages. Otherwise they cannot.

Maximum user accounts allowed: Specify the maximum number of accounts that can be created in this institution. If you leave this field blank, there is no limit to the number of accounts.

Locked fields: Put a check mark into each check box for which users are not allowed to change the value. Disabled check boxes are for profile fields which are locked in the institution settings for “No institution”. These profile fields are locked at the site level and cannot be unlocked for individual institutions.

Click the Submit button to save your changes and create this institution.

Click the Cancel button to abort the creation of this institution.

Notitie

Locking profile fields such as first name, last name and display name can be beneficial for institutions that wish to always identify their users by their real names and not allow users to choose nicknames.

8.5.2.1. Change the institution logo

You can upload a logo to any theme replacing the standard logo that comes with the theme. For best results, this image should have the same dimensions as the site logo in your institution’s theme. As each theme can have a different header height, no exact dimensions can be provided.

Notitie

Of the standard themes, only the “Primary School” theme requires a set height for its logo. The other themes are more flexible.

Upload a logo

Logo: Upload the logo that you want to use on your institution theme from your computer.

Once you have submitted your changes, the logo will be replaced in the header and it also appears in the settings to show what you have uploaded.

Delete logo: If you want to revert back to the standard logo, check this box and click the Submit button at the bottom of the page.

Notitie

new in Mahara 1.6 There is a special logo that can be picked up by Facebook in order not to display a random image from the site. This logo must be placed into the theme folder. Mahara’s Raw theme has the Mahara logo, but it could be changed to a different one in another theme. For more information see the tracker item [https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/900529].

8.5.2.2. Use the configurable theme

If you do not want to use one of the built-in themes of Mahara or one of the community-contributed themes [https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Themes/Contributed_themes], you can either build your theme from scratch [https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Customising/Themes] or use the configurable theme in conjunction with the logo upload.

Notitie

The configurable theme is only a display theme. That means that users of the institution in which it is in use see the theme applied to the site and their pages. However, when users from another institution browse the portfolio pages of users from this institution, they do not see the configurable theme, but their own theme.

You can change the configurable theme directly on the institution settings page.

Options for the configurable theme

In order to change any of the colours, either provide the hexadecimal color code [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors] or choose the colour from the colour picker that becomes available as soon as you click in one of the colour fields.

Theme: Choose the “Configurable Theme” from the drop-down menu and the “Custom theme configuration” options become visible.

Background: Background colour for the entire site, esp. visible in the header and footer.

Text on background: The text that is displayed on the background colour, e.g. in the header and footer.

Link: The link colour on any pages unless it is in the sidebar or navigation.

Headings: The heading colour for all headings except in the sidebar.

Sidebar background: The background colour of any sidebar. It should form a good contrast to the heading colour of the sidebar as that is always white.

Sidebar content background: The colour of the inside of a sidbar.

Sidebar link: The colour of a link inside a sidebar.

Navigation background: The colour of the top navigation bar.

Navigation text: The colour of the text / links in the main navigation bar.

Sub navigation background: The colour of the secondary navigation and the highlighted section in the main navigation bar.

Sub navigation text: The colour of the text / links in the secondary navigation and the highlighted section in the main navigation bar.

Row background: The colour of the background anywhere rows appear.

Colour picker: Either type in the hexadecimal colour code directly into the colour field or use the cross and arrow from the colour picker to decide on your new colour.

Reset colours: If you want to go back to a blank slate of the configurable theme, place a check mark in this box to get back to the original colours of the configurable theme.

Click the Submit button at the bottom of the page to make your changes.

Notitie

If you do not see the theme changes immediately when you are logged in as institution member, you may have to clear your browser cache.

Example of the configurable theme

The numbers on the example page refer to the configurable theme options above.

8.5.3. Edit an institution

Administration → Institutions → Institutions → Click the Edit button next to an institution

Once you have created your institution, you can edit its settings, suspend or delete the institution. You will have to choose at least one authentication method for this institution so that user accounts can be created.

Notitie

Only site administrators can add, edit and delete authentication methods for an institution and suspend it. An institution can only be deleted if there are no members in it.

You can add multiple authentication methods to your institution and thus allow various entry points for your users. You should set up at least one authentication method. Otherwise, nobody can log in to this institution.

Before you can use the IMAP, LDAP, SAML or XML-RPC authentication methods, you must install their extensions on your server.

Plugins available for authentication in an institution

Once your institution is created, the settings include an additional option, Authentication plugin. You see all authentication methods that are already in use for this institution listed.

From the drop-down menu choose one of the authentication methods that are available:

IMAP: User accounts are authenticated against an IMAP server. This is the least maintained authentication plugin and rarely used.

internal: User accounts are created by Mahara and the passwords and logins are kept in an internal database. This is the default authentication method for a new institution.

LDAP: User accounts are authenticated against an LDAP server.

none: Anyone can log in by picking a username and password. This should only be used for testing.

Persona: User accounts are authenticated against Persona.

SAML: A SAML 2.0 Identity Provider Service is needed that has the user accounts.

XML-RPC: This is the authentication method used for MNet to connect Mahara with Moodle or another Mahara.

Click the Add button to see the configuration screen for an external authentication method before it is added.

Waarschuwing

Be careful when choosing the “None” authentication method. This allows anyone to log in. It should only be used for testing purposes.

8.5.3.1. IMAP authentication

You can use this authentication method to receive the login information for your users from your IMAP server.

Set up IMAP authentication

Authority name: Enter a descriptive name to help you identify this authority. Preferably, choose a short name. This field is required.

Hostname or address: Specify the hostname in URL form. This field is required.

Port number: Specify the port under which your IMAP server can be reached. The default is 143. This field is required.

Protocol: Select the IMAP protocol you are using by selecting it from the drop-down menu. This setting is required:

IMAP

IMAP / SSL

IMAP / SSL (self-signed certificate)

IMAP / TLS

Password-change URL: If your users can only change their password in one central space, provide the URL here.

Click the Submit button to enable this authentication method or click the Cancel button to abort your changes.

8.5.3.2. LDAP authentication

Use this authentication method to authenticate against an LDAP server so that your users can log in with their usual login and password.

Set up LDAP authentication

Authority name: Enter a descriptive name to help you identify this authority. Preferably, choose a short name. This field is required.

Host URL: Specify hosts in URL form, e.g. ldap://ldap.example.com. Separate multiple servers with ; for failover support. This field is required.

Contexts: List the contexts where users are located. Separate different contexts with ;, e.g. ou=users,o=org;ou=other,o=org. This field is required.

User type: Select from the drop-down menu how users are stored in the LDAP directory. This field is required. You can choose between:

Novell Edirectory

posixAccount (rfc2307)

posixAccount (rfc2307bis)

sambaSamAccount (v. 3.0.7)

MS Active Directory

default

User attribute: Enter the attribute used to search for users. It is often cn. This field is required.

Search subcontexts: Select “Yes” if you want to search for the users also in subcontexts. This setting is required.

Distinguished name: If you want to use bind-user to search users, specify it here. It should look something like cn=ldapuser,ou=public,o=org. Leave this blank for anonymous bind.

Password: Enter the password for the “distinguished name”.

LDAP version: Choose the LDAP version you are using from the drop-down menu. This setting is required.

TLS encryption: Check this box if you use this encryption mechanism.

Update user info on login: Check this box to update the first name, last name and email address with the corresponding LDAP values at each login. Enabling this option may prevent some MS ActiveDirectory sites / users from subsequent Mahara logins.

We auto-create users: Check this box to create user accounts on Mahara automatically when a user authenticates successfully but does not yet have an account.

LDAP field for first name: Enter the name of the field in the LDAP record that contains the user’s first name.

LDAP field for surname: Enter the name of the field in the LDAP record that contains the user’s last name.

LDAP field for email: Enter the name of the field in the LDAP record that contains the user’s email address.

LDAP field for student ID: Enter the name of the field in the LDAP record that contains the user’s student ID.

LDAP field for display name: Enter the name of the field in the LDAP record that contains the user’s display name.

Click the Submit button to enable this authentication method or click the Cancel button to abort your changes.

8.5.3.3. Persona authentication

Persona [https://persona.org/] is a project of the Mozilla Identity Team [http://identity.mozilla.com/]. It allows people to have one login across multiple sites without having to divulge the password to these sites. All they need to log in to a Persona-enabled site is their email address.

Configure the Persona authentication

We auto-create users: Place a check mark in this box if you wish to allow new users to register for your institution automatically using their Persona credentials.

Click the Submit button to enable this authentication method or click the Cancel button to abort your changes.

Waarschuwing

The normal registration work flow and the potential confirmation of accounts does not come into play when you allow the auto-creation of accounts as this is an external authentication that is then considered to be trusted. We recommend you do not use the auto-creation of accounts unless you a sure that only trusted people can register. Otherwise, anybody with a Persona account could register on your site. This option could be used when your site is only available in an intranet or you want to allow anybody to register.

new in Mahara 1.6 Users with a Persona account can go through the regular work flow of registering their accounts if the administrator allowed the registration for their institution.

Notitie

If users have internal accounts and later link the email addresses they use to a Persona account, they can also log in with their Persona credentials when the site administrator allowed the Persona authentication in their institution.

8.5.3.4. SAML authentication

Choose this authentication method for your institution when you have a SAML 2.0 Identity Provider Service set up for your organisation that allows you to use the same login for multiple applications.

SAML 2.0 authentication

Institution attribute (contains “…”): Enter the attribute that will be passed from the Identity Provider (IdP) that shows which institution the user belongs to. This usually directly correlates to the LDAP attribute (the signin service of the IdP), e.g. eduPersonOrgDN. This field is required.

Institution value to check against attribute: Enter the value that will be checked against the institution attribute value as passed from the IdP. If the institution regex check box “Do partial string match with institution shortname” is selected, this value can be a regular expression [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression] that will be used to check against the institution attribute value. This field is required.

Do partial string match with institution shortname: Check this check box to treat the value in “Institution value to check against attribute” like a regular expression.

User attribute: Enter the name of the attribute passed by the IdP that contains the username. This field is required.

Match username attribute to remote username: This box is selected by default and needs to stay selected. It matches the user attribute value to the remote username field assigned to a given user (not the internal Mahara username). Only if you have the experimental feature of “usersuniquebyusername” turned on can you deselect this check box. We do not recommend this unless you are very experienced and have control over all applications in question.

Allow users to link own account: Check this box if you want to allow users to link their own internal Mahara account to the authenticated SAML account. This depends on the “Match username attribute to remote username” option being enabled. If this setting is turned on when users try to log in via SSO and their username as well as the email for example match an internal username, they can link their accounts. That would allow them to log in either via the SSO login or via the regular login box into the same account and avoid account duplication.

Update user details on login: Check this box to update the first name, last name and email address with the corresponding IdP values passed through at each login.

We auto-create users: This is unselected by default and needs to stay unchecked if the option “Match username attribute to remote username” is enabled. Check this box to create user accounts on Mahara automatically when a user authenticates successfully but does not yet have an account. Only if you have the experimental feature of “usersuniquebyusername” turned on can you select this check box. We do not recommend this unless you are very experienced and have control over all applications in question.

SSO field for first name: Enter the name of the attribute passed by the IdP that contains the user’s first name.

SSO field for surname: Enter the name of the attribute passed by the IdP that contains the user’s last name.

SSO field for email: Enter the name of the attribute passed by the IdP that contains the user’s email address.

Click the Submit button to enable this authentication method or click the Cancel button to abort your changes.

Waarschuwing

By default, SAML authentication instances have the “Match username attribute to remote username” setting selected. If that setting were unchecked, someone with control over any SAML identity provider could gain control over any user account on that Mahara site by setting the username attribute accordingly. In other words, administrators of one institution could control users in other institutions. You would only be able to deselect this setting if you set the “usersuniquebyusername” variable to “true” in config.php. However, you should not do that on a Mahara instance to which multiple SAML providers connect and you are not in control of all usernames that are created.

Zie ook

If you deselect “Match username attribute to remote username”, you get an error message which talks about the config setting for “usersuniquebyusername”. Please refer to the experimental feature of the “usersuniquebyusername” variable for more information.

8.5.3.5. XML-RPC /MNet authentication

Use the XML-RPC authentication for connecting a Mahara instance to a Moodle or an other Mahara installation for sharing login information. With Moodle 2 that does not only mean that you can log in to Mahara via Moodle, but also that you can transfer certain activities into your Mahara portfolio from Moodle [http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Portfolios].

A Moodle site can only be connected to Mahara once no matter how many institutions you have set up. Every XML-RPC authentication instance in Mahara must have its own unique remote wwwroot and must be associated with a single institution.

Notitie

You must have networking enabled in order to use this authentication method.

Set up MNet authentication

Authority name: Enter a descriptive name to help you identify this authority. Preferably, choose a short name. This field is required.

WWW root: Enter the web address of the root of the remote application, e.g. http://example.com. This field is required.

Site name: Enter the name to present to your users to identify the remote site. If you enable SSO, they may click on this name to start a session at the remote site. This field is required.

Application: Choose the application on the other end. You can choose between “Mahara” and “Moodle”.

Port number: Enter the port number that the remote application is listening at. You probably will not need to change this unless you are connecting to a https service or your remote application is running on a non-standard port. This field is required.

Parent authority: If you set a parent authority from the already existing authentication methods, users will be able to log in using that authority as well as MNet. For example, you could set up SAML authentication and have that be the parent of this MNet authority. That means that users will be able to log in by clicking the SSO login button using their SSO credentials as well as via MNet from their Moodle. You do not have to set a parent authority. If you do not, users using MNet will only be able to access Mahara via MNet, i.e. log in to Moodle or the other Mahara first.

Wrong login box message: Enter a message to display when a user tries to log in via Mahara’s login form but is not allowed to if you have not set up a parent authority.

SSO direction: Choose your SSO direction from the drop-down menu:

They SSO in: Enable this option to allow users from the remote site to roam to your Mahara site without having to enter their username and password. This is the most commonly used setting.

We SSO out: Enable this option to allow your users to roam from Mahara to the remote site without having to enter their username and password there.

Update user info on login: Enable this option to bring over user data from the remote site upon login and update your Mahara user record with any changes. The following fields, when filled in on Moodle, are filled in Mahara:

first name (always carried over)

last name (always carried over)

email address (always carried over)

profile picture

description (introduction on Mahara)

city

country

language

HTML editor setting

We auto-create users: Check this box to create user accounts on Mahara automatically when a user authenticates successfully but does not yet have an account.

We import content: Not all network-enabled applications support this, but if they do, e.g. Moodle 2.x, this will allow users of the remote site to import content to Mahara. It depends on the option “They SSO in” from “SSO direction” and it is sensible to also have “We auto-create users” set.

Click the Submit button to enable this authentication method or click the Cancel button to abort your changes.

Notitie

If you choose a Parent authority, ensure that all the users are associated with this authentication method instead of the MNet one. Otherwise, they will not be able to log in via the parent authentication method. If the remote username for MNet and the other authentication method is already the same, you just need to change the authentication method. If they are not yet the same, you need to update the user details together with changing their authentication method.

Zie ook

Refer to the comprehensive guide about setting up Mahoodle [https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Moodle//Mahara_Integration], the combination of Mahara and Moodle, for step-by-step instructions on how to set everything up on the Moodle side and on Mahara. The guide explains the steps for both Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.x.

8.5.3.6. Order of authentication methods

If you have set up multiple authentication methods in one institution, you can decide on the order in which they are checked.

Order of authentication methods

Use the up arrow and down arrow to move a specific authentication method up or down in the list.

Delete a particular authentication method by clicking on the Delete link [x].

Notitie

You cannot delete an authentication method when there are still users who require it to log in. Before deleting an authentication method, you have to move the users to another authentication method.

8.5.3.7. Suspend institution

A site administrator can suspend an institution at any time.

Suspend and institution

Click the Suspend institution button to make an institution (temporarily) unavailable to its users.

8.5.4. Members

Administration → Institutions → Members

You can add and remove members from one institution in bulk. As site administrator, you can always add members to an institution. As institution administrator, you can only invite users to become members.

You can filter users to display fewer and add to or remove them more easily from your institution:

People who have requested institution membership

People who have not requested institution membership

People who have left a given institution

People who are already institution members

People who have been invited

Notitie

You can double-click a name and it will be moved to the other side. This goes for all functionalities that are similar to this one here.

8.5.4.1. People who have requested institution membership

If your institution allows self-registration, users who are not already members of your institution can request to join it.

Institution administrators receive notifications about membership requests. Site administrators only receive notifications about users wanting to join “No Institution”.

Accept or decline institution membership requests

Users to display: Choose People who have requested institution membership.

Institution: Choose from the drop-down menu to which institution you wish to add users. If there is only one institution, its name will be displayed without the drop-down menu.

Users who have requested membership: Select the users you wish to add to the institution.

Search: You can also search for users in the search box if there are too many names listed.

Add the users by clicking the right-arrow button right-arrow.

Users to be added / rejected: If you put users into the box for users to be added / rejected by accident, you can remove them from that list by clicking on them.

Then click the left-arrow button left-arrow, and they are removed from the list.

When you have all the members you wish to add to the institution, click the Add members button.

Alternatively, if you wish to decline users membership, you can select them and then send a general denial by clicking the Decline requests button.

8.5.4.2. People who have not requested membership yet

An admin can also take the initiative and invite or add users to an institution.

Invite or add users to become institution members

Users to display: Choose People who have not requested membership yet.

Institution: Choose from the drop-down menu to which institution you wish to invite users. If there is only one institution, its name will be displayed without the drop-down menu.

Non-members: Select the users you wish to invite to the institution.

Search: You can also search for users in the search box if there are too many names listed.

Add the users to the list Users to be invited by clicking the right-arrow button right-arrow.

If you put a person into the box for users to be invited by accident, you can remove them from that list by clicking on them.

Then click the left-arrow button left-arrow, and they are removed from the list.

When you have all the members you wish to invite to the institution, click the Invite users button. The users receive a notification and can accept or decline the institution membership invitation.

Alternatively, you can click the Add members button as site administrator and add users directly to the institution without asking them first.

8.5.4.3. People who have left a given institution

An administrator can filter users by the previous institution to which they were attached in order to find them more quickly.

Notitie

This is only of importance for a multi-tenanted Mahara instance with at least 2 institutions.

Invite or add users to become institution members when they had left an institution

Users to display: Choose People who have left a given institution. “Left” is interpreted loosely, it also means when an administrator removed them from an institution.

Previous institution: Choose the institution from which you want to add users. The users must have left it first to be listed here.

Institution: Choose from the drop-down menu to which institution you wish to invite users. If there is only one other institution, its name will be displayed without the drop-down menu.

Users who have left institution [name of the institution]: Select the users you wish to invite or add to the other institution.

Search: You can also search for users in the search box if there are too many names listed.

Add the users to the list Users to be invited by clicking the right-arrow button right-arrow.

If you put a person into the box for users to be invited by accident, you can remove them from that list by clicking on them.

Then click the left-arrow button left-arrow, and they are removed from the list.

When you have all the members you wish to invite to this institution, click the Invite users button. The users receive a notification and can accept or decline the institution membership invitation.

Alternatively, you can click the Add members button as site administrator and add users directly to the institution without asking them first.

Notitie

Mahara keeps track of the last institution of a user via an invisible tag.

8.5.4.4. People who are already institution members

You can remove users from an institution, e.g. if they are no longer students at a school or university, but should still have an account on Mahara or when they are just switching institutions on the same Mahara instance.

Remove users from an institution

Users to display: Choose People who are already institution members.

Institution: Choose from the drop-down menu which institution’s members you wish to display. If there is only one institution, its name will be displayed without the drop-down menu.

Current members: Select the users you wish to remove from the institution.

Search: You can also search for users in the search box if there are too many names listed.

Add the users to the list Users to be removed by clicking the right-arrow button right-arrow.

If you put a person into the box for users to be removed by accident, you can remove them from that list by clicking on them.

Then click the left-arrow button left-arrow, and they are removed from the list.

When you have all the members you wish to remove from your institution, click the Remove users button.

8.5.4.5. People who have been invited

An administrator can uninvite users from an institution.

Uninvite users from joining your institution

Users to display: Choose People who have been invited.

Institution: Choose from the drop-down menu which institution’s members you wish to display. If there is only one institution, its name will be displayed without the drop-down menu.

Invited users: Select the users you wish to univite from joining the institution.

Search: You can also search for users in the search box if there are too many names listed.

Add the users to the list Users to be uninvited by clicking the right-arrow button right-arrow.

If you put a person into the box for users to be uninvited by accident, you can remove them from that list by clicking on them.

Then click the left-arrow button left-arrow, and they are removed from the list.

When you have all the users you wish to uninvite from the institution, click the Revoke invitations button.

8.5.5. Institution staff

You can give users staff rights in an institution in which they are members. The staff role will allow them to create course groups for example. This page allows you to do that in bulk for many users at once.

Zie ook

You can also give staff rights on the user account settings page.

Give users institution staff rights.

Institution: Choose the institution from the drop-down menu for which want to give staff rights to members.

Institution members: Select the institution members who shall get staff rights.

Search: You can also search for users in the search box if there are too many names listed.

Add the users to the list Institution staff by clicking the right-arrow button right-arrow.

If you put a user into the institution staff list by accident or want to remove existing staff members and return them to normal membership status, select them.

Then click the left-arrow button left-arrow, and they are removed from the list.

When you have all the members you wish to have as staff in the institution, click the Submit button.

8.5.6. Institution administrators

You can give users administrator rights in an institution in which they are members. The administrator role will allow them to manage users in their own institution. This page allows you to do that in bulk for many users at once.

Zie ook

You can also give admin rights on the user account settings page.

Give users institution admin rights.

Institution: Choose the institution from the drop-down menu for which want to give admin rights to members.

Institution members: Select the institution members who shall get admin rights.

Search: You can also search for users in the search box if there are too many names listed.

Add the users to the list Current admins by clicking on the right-arrow button right-arrow.

If you put a user into the institution admin list by accident or want to remove existing admin members and return them to normal membership status, select them.

Then click on the left-arrow button left-arrow, and they are removed from the list.

When you have all the members you wish to have as admins in the institution, click the Submit button.

8.5.7. Admin notifications

Administration → Users → Admin notifications

The Admin notifications page lists all users with institution and site administrator access on your site. It shows their selected notification preferences for all admin notifications. There should be at least one administrator receiving each type of message generated.

Notitie

Institution administrators only see admin notifications for their own institutions.

Admin notifications are:

Contact us

Objectionable content

Repeat virus upload

Virus flag release

Overview of the admin notification types

8.5.8. Institution pages

Administration → Institutions → Pages

You can create pages for your entire institution. Although you could always create pages under a regular user account that other users could copy into their own portfolio, the advantage of institution pages is that new members in the institution can receive a copy upon joining the institution.

Create institution pages

Institution: Click on the institution in the drop-down menu for which you want to create or edit institution pages.

Search: If you have a lot of institution pages, you can search for a particular one here. You can search in the title, description and tags or only in tags.

Click the Create page button to start a new institution page.

Click the Copy page button to start a new page from a copy of an already existing one. This does not have to be an institution page but can be any page that you are allowed to copy.

View an institution page that you have already created.

Click the Edit button edit to change an existing institution page.

click the Delete button delete to delete an institution page.

Notitie

Creating and editing an institution page is very similar to creating and editing a portfolio page. However, not all blocks are available when editing an institution page in the page editor due to the different context. Please refer to the overview of blocks for a list of all the blocks that you can use in an institution page.

8.5.9. new in Mahara 1.6 Institution collections

Administration → Institutions → Collections

You can create collections for your entire institution. Although you could always create collections under a regular user account that other users could copy into their own portfolio, the advantage of institution collections is that new members in the institution can receive a copy upon joining the institution.

Create institution collections

Institution: Click on the institution in the drop-down menu for which you want to create or edit institution collections.

Click the New collection button to start a new institution collection.

Click the Copy a collection button to start a new collection from a copy of an already existing one. This does not have to be an institution collection but can be any collection that you are allowed to copy.

Click on the collection title to go to the first page of the collection.

View the description of this collection.

Click on any title of a page within a collection to jump directly to it.

Click the Manage button manage to move pages within a collection, add to or delete pages from a collection.

Click the Edit button edit to change the title and description of a collection.

Click the Delete button delete to delete the collection. The pages will still exist.

Notitie

Creating and editing an institution collection is very similar to creating and editing a portfolio collection.

8.5.10. Share institution pages and new in Mahara 1.6 collections

Administration → Institutions → Share

You can see a list of all institution pages and collections for a specific institution.

Share institution pages and collections

Institution: Select the institution from the drop-down menu for which you want to see the institution pages and collections.

Collections: All institution collections for that institution are listed here.

Pages: All institution pages for that institution are listed here.

Access list: View the access permissions for the pages and collections.

Click the Edit access button edit_access to change the permissions of who can view and copy a page or collection.

Click the Edit Secret URL button edit to define a secret URL for a page or collection.

Sharing an institution page or collection is very similar to sharing a portfolio page or collection. The only difference is that you can allow new institution members to receive a copy of an institution page or collection immediately upon joining the institution.

Setting for copying an institution page for new institution members

When you clicked the Edit access button edit_access on the Share page for institution pages and collections, place a tick in the check box Allow copying under Advanced options.

Once you have put a check mark into that box, the line Copy for new institution members appears, and you can place a check mark into that box if you wish all new institution members to receive that page or collection automatically upon joining that institution.

Click the Save button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

8.5.11. new in Mahara 1.6 Institution statistics

Administration → Institutions → Institution statistics

The type of statistics you have available for institutions are very similar to the site statistics. You can view statistics for each institution individually and for example use the CSV download options to

compare the institution statistics to the site statistics

compare institutions with each other

Notitie

All institution administrators have access to their institution(s)’ statistics at any time. If the site administrator set the staff statistics access correctly, institution staff will also be able to see the statistics for their institution(s).

8.5.11.1. Institution information

You have access to basic information about individual institutions. Choose the one you would like to see from the institution drop-down menu before proceeding.

Basic information about an institution

You can view information about:

Growth of your number of users and pages over time in a graph

Institution created: Date when your institution went live

Users: Number of

registered users, i.e. everybody who has an account

active users, i.e. users that have at least logged in once and have done something

Pages: Number of pages and average pages per user with pages

Disk usage: The amount of disk space your institution uses, i.e. the total amount of space occupied by files

8.5.11.2. Users

You can see basic information about an institution’s users to keep track of them.

Daily user statistics per institution

On the Users tab of the institution statistics, you see information about

the average user in this institution:

average number of friends with the name of the person with most friends

average number of pages with the author of the most pages

average amount of file quota used with the user who has used most

daily user statistics with information about how many users

logged in

were created

existed in total on a specific day

link to download the daily user statistics as CSV file

8.5.11.3. Pages

You can view statistics about an institution’s pages in the Pages tab.

Statistics about pages

The information that you can view is:

The most frequently used blocks in portfolio pages.

A graph shows the distribution of profile, group and portfolio pages.

Most popular pages: The most popular pages are sorted in descending order with links to the pages and the owner.

Export statistics in CSV format: Download the cumulative statistics about the pages and number of views as well as comments as CSV file.

8.5.11.4. Content

The Content tab in the institution statistics holds information about

artefacts

blocks

general site information

Statistics for the current week for all artefacts etc.

Name: The statistics item itself, e.g. artefact, block or other general item on institution level. It is linked to the Historial data statistics for an overview of the changes over time.

Modified: This column shows the number of updates to an artefact etc. during the current week.

Total: This column shows the total number of instances of the statistics items.

Export statistics in CSV format: Download the cumulative statistics about all the statistics shown for the week as CSV file.

Notitie

The number of total content statistics will vary because only when an artefact or block etc. was used, will the statistics be created for that type.

8.5.11.5. Historical data

The Historical data tab in the institution statistics holds historical data over time about a particular content item that you have clicked on in the Content tab. Changes are saved per default on a weekly basis. However, whenever you run the cron manually, a new statistics will be created as well. You can also download the statistics as CSV file.

Historical data for individual content items

Historical statistics for field: Display of the artefact or other item that you are looking at.

Date: Display of the date when the statistics were created.

Modified: Display of the number of modifications from the previous date to the next one when the statistics were created.

Total: Total number of instances of this statistical item at the time the statistics were run.

Export statistics in CSV format: Download the cumulative statistics for this particular item as CSV file.

Notitie

When you click on the Historical data tab without choosing an item to look at in particular beforehand, the number of users are displayed as that is a statistics that is available on all sites.

8.5.12. Files

Administration → Institutions → Files

The files area in an institution holds all files that are uploaded by administrators as institution files. The uploading process works like the one in the personal files area.

Institution files area

8.5.13. Pending registrations

Administration → Institutions → Pending registrations

When you turn on Confirm registration for an institution in the institution settings, no user account in this institution is created without the administrator knowing it. If a user is rejected, no account is created. If the option Confirm registration is not turned on, a user account is created in the “No institution” institution but not in the actual institution.

Below follows the process for self-registration with Confirm registration turned on.

8.5.13.1. Self-register for an internal account

When users try to self-register for your institution, they must provide certain details.

Notitie

The fields for email, first and last name can appear in a different order if you have chosen the advanced spam protection settings.

User self-registration for an institution

First name: Type your first name.

Last name: Provide your last name.

Email address: Provide your email address.

Institution: Select the institution for which you want to register. new in Mahara 1.6 There is an indicator whether the institution you wish to register for requires administrator approval.

Registration reason: If administrator approval is required, you can provide a reason why you want to join.

If the site administrator requires users who self-register to agree to the terms and conditions, the “Registration agreement” of the site, you must read through them below and then make your choice.

Click the Register button.

The administrators of that institution and the site administrator receive a notification about the pending registration. They then review pending registrations.

You will receive an email which includes a link to confirm your email address. You must click that link within 24 hours. If you do not, you will have to start the registration process again from the beginning.

8.5.13.2. new in Mahara 1.6 Self-register with a Persona account

The self-registration process with administrator approval also works for users who wish to use Persona [https://www.persona.org/]. It needs to be set up as authentication method, and potential users go about in a very similar way.

User self-registration for an institution with a Persona account

Instead of clicking the link Register, users who have a Persona account can use that to register for an institution that allows for Persona authentication.

Click the Persona button persona-button.

Sign in to your Persona account.

Follow the registration steps.

8.5.13.3. Review pending registrations

As administrator, you can view pending registrations for your institutions on the Pending registrations page in Administration → Institutions → Pending registrations.

Pending registrations page

Institution: Choose the institution for which you want to view the pending registrations.

Pending registration: You see a list of all registration requests that include the names of the requesters and their email addresses.

Registration reason: The reason for registration is displayed.

Click the Approve button when you want to approve this registration request. You will have to confirm your approval on the next page. The person self-registering receives an email with a link to complete the registration process.

Click the Deny button when you do not want this person to register for your institution and receive an account.

new in Mahara 1.6 When you approve users, you can decide whether they should receive staff rights immediately. For example, this helps to give all teachers at a school staff access rights upon their self-registration.

Approve pending registrations

Institution staff: Place a check mark in this check box if the user shall have staff access rights.

Click the Approve button when you want to approve this registration request.

Click the Cancel button to abort the approval process.

When you deny a person access to your institution, you can also provide a reason.

Reason for denying institution membership for a self-registering user

Denial reason: Write your reason for denying institution membership that might help the person to know why you do not want to give them access.

Click the Deny button to send a notification to the person’s email address with the reason for the denial.

Click the Cancel button to be taken back to the page with all pending registrations.

8.5.13.4. Complete self-registration

When users are accepted as members in an institution via this process, they must still complete the registration process. This is necessary to provide information in all required fields besides a password and a username.

Complete the self-registration for an institution

New username: Choose your new username. A default username is suggested, but you can provide a different one. If your suggested username is already taken, the system will let you know after you submit your information.

New password: Choose a password for your account. This field is required.

Confirm password: Re-type the new password. This field is required.

Click the Submit button to complete your registration. You will be taken to your Dashboard.

8.6. Extensions

Administration → Extensions

Notitie

Extensions is only accessible by site administrators.

Extensions in Mahara serve to provide certain functionality in the system. Extensions can be installed at any point and can also be hidden.

8.6.1. Plugin administration

Administration → Extensions → Plugin administration

The Plugin administration lists all the plugins that are currently installed on your Mahara instance and provides a link to the plugin configuration settings where available.

Plugins in Mahara are always installed and can be accessed if users know the URLs and would otherwise have access. Rather than enabling and disabling the functionality, plugins are hidden or made visible by clicking on the hide or show links beside the plugins. When hiding an artefact type plugin, Mahara stops the display of the blocks related to it.

In order to delete a plugin completely, you must delete the code and all database tables that pertain to the plugin.

Notitie

Core Mahara functionality can be made unavailable to users by hiding it. This may be useful if you connect Mahara to another system that already provides this functionality or if you do not wish your users to use that functionality. However, the decision about hiding a functionality should be considered thoroughly as it may also mean that users may not be able to have as many artefacts available to them as they should have.

In the following, only the plugins that have additional settings are discussed.

8.6.1.1. Blocktype: File / gallery

You can provide additional image gallery settings and also allow your users to make Flickr and Photobucket image galleries available. The settings you make on this page will be the default settings for all users.

Configure the Image gallery block

Use Slimbox2: Check this box if you want to use this script to overlay images on the current page.

Use photo frame: Check this box if you want to put a frame around the thumbnail of each photo in photo galleries.

Maximum photo width: Set the maximum width (in pixel) to which the photos will be resized when viewed with Slimbox2.

Flickr API key: If you want to allow users to display photos from Flickr, you need a valid Flickr API key. You can apply for the key at Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/services/api/keys/apply/].

Photobucket API key: If you want to allow users to display photos from Photobucket, you need a valid API and private API key. You can get them from the developer page of Photobucket [http://developer.photobucket.com/].

Photobucket API private key: Provide the private API key from Photobucket that you will have received.

Click the Save button to keep your changes.

8.6.1.2. Blocktype: File / internalmedia

Configure which file types users can embed into the Embedded media block. If you disable a file type that has already been used in a block, it will not be rendered any more.

Mahara comes with Flowplayer [http://flowplayer.org/], a media player that can play FLV, MP4 (in H.264 format) and MP3 files. Videos are embedded and audio files played with the help of this player.

Other video file types can be enabled, but users must have the appropriate software installed on their computers and the respective plugin enabled in their browsers to play them.

Configure the Embedded media block

Select the file types that you wish your users to be able to show on their portfolio pages.

Width: Choose the default width (in pixels) for a video.

Height: Choose the default height (in pixels) for a video.

Click the Save button to keep your changes.

Notitie

If you allow the embedding of file types that cannot be played by Flowplayer, some users may not have the necessary software installed for displaying these file types.

8.6.1.3. Block type: Wall

You can limit the number of characters that are allowed for wall posts in this configuration setting. Existing posts will not be changed.

Configure wall settings

Choose the maximum number of characters for your wall posts.

Click the Save button to keep your changes.

8.6.1.4. Artefact type: Comments

Turn comment ratings on to enable 5-star ratings in the feedback section on artefacts and pages.

Notitie

Ratings cannot be on their own and require either a comment or a file attachment.

Enable comment ratings

Click the check box to enable comment ratings.

Click the Save button to keep your changes.

8.6.1.5. Artefact type: File

You can configure a variety of options for uploading files.

Configure the file plugin

Default quota: You can set the amount of disk space that new users will have as their quota. Existing user quotas will not be changed.

Update user quotas: Check this box if you want to update the file quota for existing users with the value under Default quota. Only then will they be updated.

Institution quota: Check this box if you want to allow institution administrators to set user file quotas and have default quotas for each institution.

Enforce a site-wide maximum quota: Check this box if you do not wish an administrator to go beyond the allowed maximum quota.

Maximum quota: You can set the maximum quota that an administrator can give to a user. Existing user quotas will not be affected.

Default group quota: You can set the amount of disk space that each group will have as its quota. Existing groups will not be affected.

Update group quotas: Check this box if you want to update the file quota for existing groups with the value under Default quota. Only then will they be updated.

Require agreement: Enable this option if you want to force users to agree to certain terms before they can upload a file to the site. They must accept this agreement before they are able to choose a file from their computer to upload to Mahara. A default agreement is provided and the text displayed.

Use custom agreement: If you want to write your own upload agreement, check this box in addition to Require agreement.

Custom agreement: If you want to use a custom upload agreement, write it here.

new in Mahara 1.6 Resize large images automatically: Enable this option to resize any image that is uploaded to the maximum width and height settings.

new in Mahara 1.6 Display user option: Display users the option to resize images automatically in their account settings.

new in Mahara 1.6 Maximum width and height: Choose the maximum width and height (in pixels) to which images will be resized upon uploading.

Profile picture size: Choose the maximum size of the profile pictures for users (in pixels). All images uploaded to the profile pictures area will be resized to these dimensions if they are larger.

Default comment permission: Choose the artefact types which shall have comments enabled per default. Users can override these settings for individual artefacts in the files area. You can enable comments for:

archive, i.e. compressed file

audio file

file

folder

image

profile picture

video file

Select All to mark all file types.

Select None to clear your selections from the check boxes.

Click the Save button when you are finished making your changes.

8.6.1.6. Artefact type: Profile

For profile information you can decide which fields a user must provide when a user account is created manually or via CSV file. These fields are marked mandatory fields.

The profile fields marked searchable fields are available for all logged-in users to search on.

Choose mandatory and searchable profile fields

Mandatory fields: Select the fields that you wish all users to fill in. Certain fields cannot be deselected.

Searchable fields: Select the fields that can be searched on by others. Certain fields cannot be deselected.

Click the Save button to keep your changes.

8.6.1.7. Authentication: SAML

If you wish to use SAML authentication anywhere on your site, you must provide the path to your SAML php file in these settings.

Prepare your site for SAML authentication

SimpleSAMLphp lib directory: Provide the fully qualified path to the library directory of SimpleSAMLphp, e.g. if the full path to the bootstrap autoload.php is /some_path_to/simplesamlphp_1_3/lib/_autoload.php then this value should be /some_path_to/simplesamlphp_1_3/

SimpleSAMLphp config directory: Provide the fully qualified path to the configuration directory to be used for this Service Provider (SP) SimpleSAMLphp, e.g. if the full path to the config.php is /some_path_to/simplesamlphp_1_3/config/config.php then this value should be /some_path_to/simplesamlphp_1_3/config/

Click the Save button to keep your changes.

8.6.1.8. Search: Internal search

If your site has a lot of users and uses a PostgreSQL database, user searches will be faster with exact user searching enabled. The setting will still work with MySQL databases, but it is unlikely that it increases search performance significantly.

The advantage of the exact user search is that if you have 20 users with the first name “Percy” but different last names, you may find the user you are looking for more quickly because you can search for “Percy Pearle” and the result list will not show “Percy Pearl”, “Percy Sutter”, “Percy Townsend” etc.

However, partial matches on profile fields will not return results, so if for example you have a user called “Percy”, then typing “Perc” into the search box will not find that user anymore.

Configure the internal search plugin

Exact user searches: Check this box if you want to enable exact user searches.

Click the Save button to keep your changes.

8.6.1.9. Interaction: Forum

The post delay setting determines the time (in minutes) that users have for editing their forum posts before they are mailed out. Once a forum post has been mailed and further edits are made, the date, time and editor are mentioned in the post.

Set the edit time before the forum post is finalised

Post delay: Set the time in minutes before a post is finalised and further edits are marked as such.

Click the Save button to keep your changes.

8.6.2. HTML filters

Administration → Extensions → HTML filters

Mahara uses HTML Purifier [http://htmlpurifier.org/] to filter out malicious code that could threaten the security of the system. If you have code, e.g. iFrames or JavaScript that you wish to use and that otherwise gets filtered out, you will have to write a filter to circumvent that. Filters should always be specific to their purpose and not give ‘carte blanche’ to ensure security as much as possible.

Mahara already comes with a number of installed filters. Others can be uploaded and then installed. If you have created a new set of HTML filters, you can install them by unzipping the files into the folder /htdocs/lib/htmlpurifiercustom and then click the Install button.

Custom filters for iFrames that allow the embedding of media content such as YouTube and WikiEducator allow users to grab the URL of the page on which the media is displayed instead of having to find the actual embed code.

Notitie

You do not necessarily require bespoke filters for media that you wish to embed via <iframe> embed code. If you are happy to use the original embed code, you can add it to the list of allowed iframe sources.

If you wish to be able to paste the URL instead (like for a YouTube video), then you would need a bespoke filter.

8.6.3. new in Mahara 1.6 Allowed iframe sources

Administration → Extensions → Allowed iframe sources

This feature allows you as site administrator to specify the base URLs for media that you want your users to be able to embed. These iframes are then considered safe and will not be stripped out of a text box, the external media block or a journal entry where you can use them. You do not have to write bespoke filters for using these iframe sources.

The administrator interface allows you to add and manage these sources easily. Mahara already comes with a number of built-in iframe sources that you can take as examples.

Add and edit allowed iframe sources

Site: The base URL of the iframe code.

Display name: What the user will see in the external media block.

Click the Edit button edit to update the display name of an existing iframe source or the favicon source.

Click the Delete button delete to remove an existing iframe source.

Display name: Change the display name of an existing iframe source here after having clicked on the Edit button edit.

Icon host: Choose the base URL where the favicon can be found for the site that you are updating in case it is not fetched automatically.

Click the Save button to keep your changes for this site.

Site: Add a new iframe source by entering its base URL here. Please make sure to leave out the http://. Only letters, digits and . / - _ are allowed.

Display name: Choose a display name for your iframe source. Typically, this is the name of the site that hosts the external content.

Click the Add button to place your new site into the list of allowed iframe sources. If the favicon does not display, edit your site and specify the icon host as per Step 6.

Notitie

Some sites can be reached via a variety of URLs, e.g. GoogleApps, Glogster. You need to provide all possible base URLs to ensure that the iFrames are displayed. If you give the individual sites of one provider the same name, it will only show up once in the list of iFrame sources in the external media block and not clutter the space unnecessarily.

8.6.4. new in Mahara 1.6 Clean URLs

Administration → Extensions → Clean URLs

You can configure your site to use human-readable URLs for user profiles, groups and (group) portfolio pages. For example:

profile page: http://mahara.example.com/user/bob

portfolio page: http://mahara.example.com/user/bob/bobs-portfolio-page

group homepage: http://mahara.example.com/group/bobs-group

group portfolio page: http://mahara.example.com/group/bobs-group/an-interesting-group-page

This option allows you to create more memorable URLs.

Zie ook

Please follow the configuration instructions on the wiki [https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Clean_URL_Configuration] for enabling this feature on your site. You need access to the server to do so.

In the administration area you can generate clean URLs for existing users, groups and pages. This is handy when you upgraded from an earlier version of Mahara or want to reset all custom URLs.

Regenerate clean URLs for existing users in bulk

Click the Submit button to regenerate clean URLs. Please beware that all existing clean URLs are lost.

You see the results of the action at the top of the screen.

Waarschuwing

If you generate clean URLs for all users from here, those who have already changed their URLs will lose their changes and links will be broken. We recommend you use this feature only when upgrading your Mahara site or when things have gone wrong with the clean URL generation.

8.7. Experimental features

As site administrator you have three experimental features available to you:

bulk export of Leap2A files

bulk import of Leap2A files

usersuniquebyusername variable

You cannot access these features from any navigation, but you must type the URL directly in the case of the bulk options or set up a config.php variable.

Waarschuwing

The export and import of portfolios uses quite a lot of computing power. Therefore, these bulk options require even more memory. Please try them first out on a test installation or export / import only a small number of users instead of an entire institution at once.

8.7.1. Bulk export of Leap2A files

[your regular Mahara URL]/admin/users/bulkexport.php

If you need to export the portfolios of multiple users at once, you can do so from the bulk export page. Please remember that this is an experimental feature at the moment.

Experimental feature: Bulk export

Institution: Choose the institution from the drop-down menu for which you want to export all user portfolios in the Leap2A format.

Usernames to export: Alternatively, choose this option if you only wish to export some users’ portfolios. Each username must be on a separate line.

Click the Export users button to start the export process. This might take a while.

Notitie

You can look up the usernames on the user search page or if you exported a CSV file of users, you have the usernames in there as well.

8.7.2. Bulk import of Leap2A files

[your regular Mahara URL]/admin/users/bulkimport.php

If you need to import the portfolios of multiple users at once, you can do so from the bulk import page. Please remember that this is an experimental feature at the moment. You must have Leap2A files to import. The import of HTML files is not possible.

The easiest option to import user portfolios in bulk is to use the bulk export file as all information is contained therein. If that is not possible, you can create the necessary ZIP file manually.

8.7.2.1. Bulk import using a bulk export file

Experimental feature: Bulk import

Ideally, you have exported the users you wish to import using the bulk export functionality on the other Mahara instance. Then the bulk export file already contains all necessary files and mappings.

Institution: Choose the institution in which the users shall become members.

Bulk export file: Choose the bulk export ZIP file which contains all users that shall be created. A new user account will be created for each of them.

Email users about their account: Check this option if the new users shall receive an email about their new account. This is especially important if you change their username and if they do not know that their account has been moved.

Click the Import button to start the process. Please be patient as the import may take some time.

Notitie

Before importing these new user accounts, you can change the usernames for these new accounts in the usernames.csv file that is included in the bulk export file.

8.7.2.2. Bulk import from scratch

If you want to import user portfolios into one institution using their Leap2A files that you did not receive via the bulk export functionality, you can still import them in bulk.

Create a folder, e.g. mahara-bulk-import.

Create the CSV file usernames.csv in the folder mahara-bulk-import.

Create a line for each user that you are importing that contains the username and the name of the ZIP file that contains the corresponding Leap2A file.

Create the sub folder users in it. Do not choose a different name.

Place all Leap2A files that you wish to import into one institution into the users sub folder. Make sure that each ZIP file has a corresponding entry in usernames.csv.

Create a ZIP file from the folder mahara-bulk-import once you have all users in it.

Go to [your regular Mahara URL]/admin/users/bulkimport.php.

Institution: Choose the institution in which the users shall become members.

Bulk export file: Choose the bulk export ZIP file which contains all users that shall be created. A new user account will be created for each of them.

Email users about their account: Check this option if the new users shall receive an email about their new account. This is especially important if you change their username and if they do not know that their account has been moved.

Click the Import button to start the process. Please be patient as the import may take some time.

Notitie

The CSV file usernames.csv should look like this and does not have a header row:

"petra","mahara-export-leap-user4-1334451885.zip"

"polly","mahara-export-leap-user5-1334451888.zip"

8.7.3. usersuniquebyusername variable

usersuniquebyusername is a config.php setting that should be used with extreme caution as it could be misused.

Below is the documentation that can be found in the code. This feature is discussed for example in the discussion topics Mahara Moodle integration and bug? [https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=1118] and SSO: Mahara to Moodle [https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=2022].

Notitie

When turned on, this setting means that it does not matter which other application the user SSOs from, they will be given the same account in Mahara.

This setting is one that has security implications unless only turned on by people who know what they are doing. In particular, every system linked to Mahara should be making sure that same username == same person. This happens for example if two Moodles are using the same LDAP server for authentication.

If this setting is on, it must NOT be possible to self register on the site for ANY institution - otherwise users could simply pick usernames of people’s accounts they wished to steal. That is why you should not see the registration check boxes in any institution if you have this feature turned on.

9. Staff access

Institution staff members enjoy a number of additional rights to regular members, for example:

creation of controlled groups

viewing of the real name of users

access to the User search page

viewing of the access list of user’s pages

Institution staff members have an additional navigation item: Institution information.

Main navigation bar for staff members

9.1. User search

Institution information → User search

When you are on the User search page, you can view all members of your institution or just a select few.

User search page as viewed by a staff member

Filter the users you wish to display by their initials of the first and / or last name.

Search: Type the name, display name, username or email address or any partial thereof you wish to search for in the search field. If the site administrator turned on the exact search, you need to provide the correct name or email address and not a partial one.

Click the Go button to start searching.

Results per page: Decide how many results per page you want to view.

View your results. The default order is alphabetical according to the first name. However, you can change the order of the results by clicking on a heading and sort that column in ascending or descending order.

Select all or just a few users for whom you wish to view a report.

With selected users: Click the Get reports button to

view user reports

download user account information for further actions

Notitie

Institution staff members only see the reports area if the site administrator allowed staff members to view the access reports.

9.2. Viewing user reports

Institution information → User search → click on Get reports

Zie ook

The functionality available to staff members is similar to the one for institution and site administrators as described in the administrator section on user reports if the site administrator allowed staff members to view the access reports.

This functionality can be especially interesting to a Mahara site that is being used with young learners who may require more scaffolding and supervision of which pages they make accessible to other users or the public.

Notitie

Despite the access to the reports and the CSV download file, staff members cannot manipulate user accounts or access user pages to which they have not received direct access from the user. The reports page only lists the pages, but does not give default access.

9.3. new in Mahara 1.6 Institution statistics

The functionality available to staff members is similar to the one for institution administrators as described in the administrator section on institution statistics if the site administrator allowed staff members to view the statistics.

10. Mahoodle

“Mahoodle” is the common name given to the joining of Mahara + Moodle [http://moodle.org], an open source learning management system. Both systems have built-in support for each other in the form of:

single sign-on

transfer of content

Refer to the comprehensive guide about setting up Mahoodle [https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Moodle//Mahara_Integration] for step-by-step instructions on how to set everything up on the Moodle side and on Mahara. The guide explains the steps for both Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.x.

You can always only link one Moodle to one Mahara be it on the site level or in an individual institution. You cannot link from one Moodle into multiple institutions on Mahara.

10.1. Moodle to Mahara

Most of the time, Moodle is the primary system and users log in from Moodle to Mahara. However, it can also be set up the other way around. You can transfer the following information when an institution in Mahara is set up to be connected to a Moodle site:

Login information

User account details, see the information in the XML-RPC authentication method settings

Content that is exported via the Moodle 2 “Portfolio export” functionality [http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Mahara_portfolio]

10.2. Mahara to Moodle

You can send information and content from Mahara to Moodle if you wish. The following are possible:

Login information

Submitting pages for assessment [https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Moodle//Mahara_Integration/View_Submission]

Displaying dashboard content [https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/882376]

Using Moodle’s login page [https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/885029]

11. Mobile Mahara

You can user Mahara to a certain degree from a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet that has internet browser capabilities. Depending on the device, not all functions may be available to you.

When you have an Android device or an iPhone, you can use an application to upload files directly from your device to Mahara.

11.1. new in Mahara 1.6 Mobile browsing

Mahara comes with a responsive design [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design]. The purpose is to provide the best viewing experience on any device, but in particular mobile devices. Furthermore, certain functionality is not available on a mobile device if it does not allow for it, e.g. the use of the visual editor.

Currently, the responsive design is only implemented for the default theme of Mahara. However, the device detection works across all themes.

That’s what the default theme looks like on an Android smartphone 2.3 (screen size 320 x 480) with device detection turned on.

3 different screens of Mahara with the default theme on an Android phone with device detection turned on

There is only one column. Everything is pushed to it, but as soon as the screen is big enough, the content moves back to its original columns.

A mobile friendly menu that can be unfolded to reach all navigation items.

Since blocks cannot be dragged over the screen, radio buttons below them allow them to be selected.

Once a block icon has been selected via its radio button, place it into the page by clicking the Add new block here button.

Text boxes are shown without the visual editor as that does not work on an Android smartphone (2.3).

The following table captures features of Mahara and how they are represented on various mobile devices when device detection (dd) is turned on or off. Users can decide in which mode they want to browse if the site administrator allowed it in the user settings.

Feature

Android smartphone dd on

Android smartphone dd off

Android 10” tablet dd on

Android 10” tablet dd off

iPhone / iPad dd on

iPhone / iPad dd off

Place page edit blocks via radio buttons instead of drag & drop

tbt

tbt

Regular drag & drop interface in page editor

check - but cannot be used

check - but cannot be used

tbt

tbt

Visual editor (WYSIWYG editor)

check - but cannot be used

tbt

tbt

Plain text editor

tbt

tbt

Print link

tbt

tbt

Report objectionable content link

tbt

tbt

Add to watchlist link

tbt

tbt

tbt - to be tested

11.2. MaharaDroid

The open source software MaharaDroid [http://code.google.com/p/maharadroid/] enables Android devices to share / upload content to a Mahara instance. This can basically be any content that you can share on your Android mobile phone or tablet.

You do not have to install any additional software for Mahara in order to use this functionality. Follow the instructions on the MaharaDroid site for more information on how to set up the application and link it to your Mahara.

11.3. PortfolioUp

PortfolioUp [http://www.brightcookie.com/our-services/consulting-additional-services/portfolioup/] is an image uploader for Mahara that can be used on the iPhone. You need to install an additional plugin on your Mahara instance in order to use this app.

12. Glossary

The glossary has two parts. Every user encounters the basic terms in Mahara. The advanced terms are for users who want to understand more and are especially for administrators.

The glossary gives you a very quick definition of a term. Where possible, terms are linked to their primary occurrence in the manual. As terms are interconnected and can appear in multiple places, please refer to the index for further locations or use the fulltext search in the sidebar to search for a specific concept.

Access

Your content is generally protected and private and not accessible to others by default. You put your content into pages and collections. Then you decide to publish your pages and collections for other individual users, groups or the public.

Access means that depending on the access permissions you give for a page or collection, individuals, members of a group, all users on your Mahara instance or anybody online can read and possibly also comment on your content if that functionality is enabled.

See also: Share

Account

You have personalised access to Mahara via a login and password. Your account identifies you in the system. Your name (and profile picture) are displayed around the system, e.g. on your profile page, forum posts, portfolio pages etc. You can manage your account in your settings.

Artefact

Artefacts are all types of content that you add to your personal content area, i.e. text, journal entries, pictures, audio files, video files, images etc.

Authentification

Mahara can administer users fully internally by creating accounts manually of by CSV file. If user account data is stored in external applications, e.g. an LDAP directory, a SimpleSAML identity provider or Moodle, users can use their usual logins and passwords to connect to Mahara. The authentication methods used in an institution are managed in the institution settings byt the site administrator.

Author

In general terms, authors are content creators and have the full rights on their works be it text, audio, video, still images or any other form of expression. If you are not the author of your own artefacts but wish to use somebody else’s work, make sure that you are allowed to do so. If you cannot use their work, you should not put it into your portfolio or use it in groups.

Block

Blocks exist on pages. They contain your artefacts that are displayed in context on a page to make up the portfolio.

Closed topic

A forum topic can be closed for members by the group administrator or forum moderator. The group members can read the topic content, but they cannot reply.

Collection

A collection is a bundle of pages that contain your artefacts. A navigation block or the navigation bar helps to move from page to page in a collection.

Controlled group

Controlled groups are similar to courses in learning management systems. The administrator can place users into the group who then cannot leave it. Usually, the administrator allows the submission of pages and collections to this group for assessment purposes.

Course group

Course groups allow the administrator to assign certain members the tutor role. Tutors can then give feedback on submitted pages and collections if these are allowed, but cannot add or remove users from the group.

Cover letter

Generally, the cover letter is the first page in an employment application and forms part of your résumé. It could be the first page in a collection for an employment or internship portfolio.

CSV file

CSV means “comma separated values” and describes the structure of a text file in which table columns are separated by a comma (or sometimes also semi-colon). You can create a CSV file with your data most easily in a spreadsheet software such as Libre Office Calc or MS Excel. You can use CSV files in Mahara to create and edit user accounts and groups as well as manage group members.

Dashboard

The dashboard is your start and overview page after you logged in. You can customise the information you see on your dashboard and for example have easy access to pages shared with you, your notifications, forum topics you are following etc.

Display name

You may not want to use your first and last name around the site and can thus create a display name, i.e. a nickname, if the site or institution administrator allows that. Furthermore, in huge institutions where several members have the same first and last name, the display name can be used to differentiate between them.

Embed code

You can make content from other web sites such as videos, audio, animations, presentations etc. visible in Mahara by linking to it. If the external content can be embedded via an iframe or code that starts with <object> or <embed> for example, it can usually be displayed in a text box or journal entry. Iframes can also be displayed in the External media block on a page. The site administrator may need to add specific iframes that you wish to embed to the allowed iframe sources.

Exact search

Exact search reduces the number of search results you get for users. Only results that are identical to the search terms will be found. For example, if you search for “james smith” without exact search turned on, your results page lists everyone starting with “james” no matter whether the last name is “smith” or not. If you turn on exact search, only users whose first and last name is “james smith” will be found. There is no need to use quotation marks when searching. Quotation marks are only necessary if you want to search for a display name that consists of two names. You must be a site administrator to turn exact search on or off.

Feedback

You can ask other users and / or friends to give feedback on your pages and / or collections that you have shared. Feedback should be constructive and helpful. It should point out things that you did well and others that you may need to improve by providing constructive suggestions and encouragement for further learning.

The feedback area is at the bottom of each page, but can also be turned off by the author of the page or artefact.

Files area

You can use files in different locations: in your personal portfolio, groups, institutions and on the site level if you have access to the latter ones. The site administrator defines the size of the files area. Organise your files area carefully by placing your files into folders and by adding metadata such as descriptions and tags to your files and folders. That makes it much easier to distinguish a file after months from several dozen or hundreds of others.

Filter

You can limit your search results to find your search term in tags only when you search shared pages. Furthermore, you can also limit your search for pages that have been shared with you or others.

Forum

Written asynchronous discussions in groups are separated into topics for better organisation and make up a forum.

Forum moderator

Forum moderators can edit forum posts and add posts in closed topics. They can edit forum topics or create new ones with the forum for which they are moderators.

Friend

Friends are your contacts on the site. You can ask other registered users to become your friends. If they agree, you can then invite them into groups or share pages or collections with them more easily. However, you do not have to become someone’s friend to view their portfolio pages or collections per se. A user can always share pages or collections with you without making you a friend.

Grading

You can use the submission functionality in groups to lock portfolio pages or collections when giving feedback. Mahara itself does not have a gradebook, but you could still record any grading results in the feedback section at the bottom of each page and make it visible only to the author. Some institutions use the ranking functionality in the feedback section for grading purposes.

For more formal assessments, you can link Mahara to a learning management system. In Moodle for example, you can use the Mahara assignment submission plugin [https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Moodle//Mahara_Integration/View_Submission] to assess portfolios directly in Moodle using standard Moodle grading options such as outcomes or rubrics.

Group

You can create groups and invite other users into your groups to work collaboratively on projects. Groups can use forums for discussions, a group files area for sharing files and create and share pages and collections. The site administrator can disable the functionality to create groups for regular users.

Group administrator

Group administrators define group settings, create new forums and administer group members.

Group homepage

The group homepage is the starting point for activities in a group. You can show the group description, a list of group members, latest forum posts etc.

Inbox

Your inbox is the place where you can access the notifications and messages you received from other users or the system. You can decide whether you want to read your messages in your inbox or receive them via email.

Invitation

You can invite any other users to your groups if you are the group administrator, or you may be able to invite your friends into groups where you are a member. The invited users can accept the invitation or reject it.

Institution

A Mahara site can consist of any number of independent institutions in which users and certain institution settings are administered. This allows the use of one Mahara instance for many organisations without the need to install Mahara for each.

Institution administrator

Institution administrators can manage institution settings and users. They do not have access to other institutions or settings on the site level.

Institution page

Institution administrators can create institution pages that can be used as examples or templates for institution members. They can be copied automatically into the accounts of new institution members.

Journal

You can collect personal reflections about a topic or learning progress in a journal. It consists of a series of these reflections that you write in individual journal entries. Per default, you have one journal, but you can add more if you enable multiple journals in your settings. You can add journals to pages as a whole, as individual entries or selected based on tags.

You can decide to publish a journal entry so others can see it if it is in a page or keep it as draft for yourself only.

Leap2A

Leap2A is a portfolio standard that is used by a number of ePortfolio systems for data exchange. In Mahara, users can export their entire portfolio or parts of it as Leap2A file and then have it imported into another Mahara instance or an ePortfolio system that supports Leap2A to continue straight away without having to redo their portfolio.

Mahoodle

Mahoodle is the term used for connecting Mahara and Moodle for single sign-on and content exchange.

Member

Users in an institution are institution members and users in groups are group members.

Message

Messages are sent to you by other users. The messages appear in your inbox and can be delivered via email as well.

Moodle

Moodle [http://moodle.org] is a learning management system (LMS) and thus teacher-centred. Courses in Moodle are filled with learning content by teachers. Students (users) get access to the content and can discuss it and are often graded on their performance. Moodle and Mahara can be used in combination. If connected, users only need one account for both systems and can switch between them without a new login. Mahara can be used as personal repository for users, and they can copy their own assignments and course contributions into their Mahara account as artefacts.

Notification

Notifications are automatically created by the system and inform you about new feedback on your pages, new forum posts in groups, new access to other users’ pages etc. The notifications appear in your inbox and can be delivered via email as well.

Objectionable material

On the page of a user to which you have received access, you might come across content that is inappropriate, offensive or violates the terms of usage of the site. You can click on the Report objectionable material link at the bottom of the page or the artefact details page and give your reason why you marked this content as objectionable. Administrators are notified, can review the content and could block the offender from accessing the system until the content is removed. It cannot be defined in general terms what is considered inappropriate. The owner of the site has to define this based on purpose of the site and age of its users.

Online users

This sidebar shows other users that have been online during the last 10 minutes. Institution administrators can limit this list to show only users from their own institution.

Open group

Open groups can be joined by anyone without group administrator approval.

Owner

The owner is the person or group that has created a page or collection or to whom artefacts belong.

Page

You can design pages by arranging artefacts on them. You define the page layout and - if enabled - the theme for it. You give access to pages to other users so they can view your work and give you feedback. Several pages can be added to a collection. All users can create personal pages and group members may be able to create group pages.

Pages can also be created as templates for further use by others.

Page layout

The page layout defines the number and width (wide or narrow) of columns on a page.

Plan

Plans are simple ToDo lists consisting of tasks. You can add your plans as blocks into your pages.

Portfolio

Portfolios gather stuff, i.e. learning artefacts and evidence. In Mahara you place your artefacts into pages which you can bundle up into collections. A page or a collection can then already be your portfolio. Thus, you can create many different portfolios. You decide whether you want to share your portfolios with others or keep them for yourself. You can create portfolios for many purposes, e.g.

reflecting on courses

creating and reflecting on projects

personal reflecting on individual development or separate learning processes

creating résumés and your learner biography

creating a showcase of your best work and much more.

Privacy statement

Information about the use of private data from the Mahara site. Usually, there is a link in the page footer to it.

Profile

Your profile page is visible to other users on Mahara. You should only display as much information about yourself as you are comfortable for other users to see. Your display name or if you do not have one, your first name and last name, is displayed along with your profile picture. Users may also be able to contact you and invite you to groups. All other elements on your profile page are optional.

Public group

Public groups are visible to anyone on the Internet. You do not have to be a member of the group to follow forum discussions or view pages. However, you need to be a group member to participate in the discussions or create pages yourself.

Recommendation

You can recommend a group to your friends if the group administrator allowed that. The group administrator then still needs to approve the group membership.

Résumé

The résumé details your education and employment history, your achievements as well as skills and interests in a tabular format. Generally, you use it when you apply for an internship or job. However, as the elements in your résumé are reusable, you can also use individual elements in other portfolios.

RSS feed

RSS feeds aggregate news from portal pages, forums or blogs. You can add RSS feeds from external sites to your pages using the “External feed” block. The content will be updated continously. Mahara can also create RSS feeds for forums in public groups and journals that appear in public pages.

Search

You can search for pages by title, description or tags on Shared pages and will see a list of results immediately. A fulltext search is not yet available. You can also search for users by using the user search box. If the site administrator turned on exact search, you need to provide the complete name of users in order to find them. Otherwise, a part of their name is enough but often yields too many results.

Secret URL

You can create secret URLs for pages and collections to give users who do not have a login to the site access to your pages or collections. The difference to making pages or collections public is that search engines cannot find these pages (unless a link to them appears on a web page).

Share

You can share your pages and collections with other users by giving them access to them. The people with whom you have shared your pages and collections may give you feedback on them. You can also share pages with people who do not have an account on the system by sharing your pages and collections with them via a secret URL.

Single sign-on

Single sign-on (SSO) describes the process to log in to one application and switch to another connected application without having to log in again. Moodle and Mahara are often connected via SSO, which is called MNet. The other built-in SSO authentication method in Mahara is SAML. Others can be added via plugins.

Site

Site means the whole site and the administration on the global level for a Mahara instance.

Site administrator

Site administrators can define system (site) settings for an entire Mahara instance. They can add, edit and delete user accounts and have access to all content even in private user areas as they can log in as any user, e.g. to assist with troubleshooting issues.

Site files

Files area on system (site) level that the site administrator can work with. Files that are placed in the public folder in the site files are available to all users.

Site page

Pages created on site level that can be put into new user accounts automatically as templates.

Staff

Staff on the site or institution level have a few additional permissions compared to regular users. For example, they can create controlled groups and hide groups, and they can also view statistics if the site administrator allowed that. Institution staff are also listed alongside institution administrators on their institutions contact page.

Sticky topic

Topics in a forum are sorted according to the date and time of posts. The topic with the latest post is normally shown first. Sometimes topics should get more attention even if there are no new posts. They can be marked “sticky” and stay at the top of the topics list. Group administrators and forum moderators can mark topics as sticky or disable this setting.

Tag

Tags are keywords that facilitate searching for your artefacts, pages and collections when the title and description are not enough. You can view all your tagged content in a tag cloud in the sidebar and thus find things again.

Tag cloud

You can display your most often used tags in the sidebar in a so called tag cloud. The tags are shown in different sizes: A tag that is used more often is bigger than a tag that is used seldomly.

Task

Tasks are created as part of a plan to provide more details on it. They can also be used to list items on a ToDo list. A task is defined by a title, a description and a completion date.

Template

Pages and collections can be offered as templates to other users. They can be copied, or institution and site administrators can have them added automatically into the portfolio area of new users. Templates are used to jumpstart the collection of content and the creation of portfolios.

Terms and conditions

The terms and conditions define the appropriate use of the site. The site administrator can display a link to this page in the footer of every page and also ask users to confirm them during registration.

Theme

The graphical interface design is called theme. If you have institutions on your site, they can have their own theme. Users can also use individual themes for their portfolio pages if the site administrator allows that.

Topic

Discussion forums are made up of topics that represent a discussion around a particular theme each.

Tutor

Tutors only exist in course groups. They can give feedback on submitted pages that are locked from editing while they give feedback. After they are finished, they release the pages or collections and the portfolio authors can fully edit their content again.

User

Users are people who have access to the Mahara site and can log in in with a personal account.

Wall

The wall is a block on your profile page. Other users can leave a message on your wall.

Watchlist

You can add pages and collections that have been shared with you to your watchlist. You will receive notifications when these pages are updated.

1. Takenlijst

2. Informatie voor schrijvers van de Mahara handleiding en vertalers

Door Kristine D.C. Hoeppner

Dit is een lijst die wijzigt tijdens het werken aan de handleiding. Er zijn een aantal conventies. De conventies worden hier centraal bewaard, zodat anderen ze kunnen zien en zodat ik er kan naar verwijzen ;-)

Deze lijst staat niet in een bepaalde volgorde.

2.1. Schermafdrukken

worden geplaatst door gebruik te maken van het label “figure”.

gebruik altijd alt-teksten en een afbeeldingsbeschrijving. Die zullen genummerd worden in de PDF-export, wat hen onderscheidt van de teksten.

worden meestal geplaatst boven een lijst als ze deel zijn van stap voor stap-instructies.

zouden zo weinig mogelijk instructies moeten bevatten over de stappen die er voor moeten genomen worden. Bij voorkeur enkel de stapnummers, zodat ze gemakkelijk uitgewisseld en vertaald kunnen worden vermits de tekst dan geen deel is van de afbeelding. Dat kan ook betekenen dat de vertalers de stappen kunnen vertalen en niet onmiddellijk de afbeeldingen moeten vervangen.

new in Mahara 1.6 get callouts worden gemaakt in Gimp met het script [https://mahara.org/view/view.php?id=60234] door Iñaki aangepast.

hebben tekstballonnetjes die refereren naar de stappen die genomen moeten worden en die onder de figuur uitgelegd worden.

zou enkel de nodige zone mogen tonen en niet het hele scherm, de URL, knoppenbalken en dergelijke.

De meeste screenshots worden toegevoegd met het figure directief

Example of including a screenshot

De eerste lijn geeft het pad naar het bestand. De * vervangt de bestandsextentie en Sphinx kiest het bestand dat het meest geschikt is. Daarom kunnen bestanden verschillende extenties hebben of je kunt hetzelfde screenshot in verschillende bestandsopmaken voorzien, waarbij het programma dan de meest geschikte opmaak kiest voor het uiteindelijk formaat van de handleiding.

De tweede regel geeft de alt-tekst die getoond wordt wanneer je de muisaanwijzer over een afbeelding schuift, wanneer er geen afbeelding getoond wordt of wanneer de pagina met een schermlezer bekeken wordt.

De derde regel moet na een lege regel komen. Dit is de tekst die getoond wordt onder het screenshot als afbeeldingsbeschrijving. In de PDF worden de beschrijvingen doorlopend genummerd.

Notitie

Als je een afbeeling inline met de tekst wil zetten en je kunt of wil het standaard figure niet gebruiken, dat moet je een vervanging maken en die zetten in het shortcuts.rstext-bestand.

2.2. Gebruikte waarschuwingen zijn

note: voor alles wat wat meer aandacht nodig heeft

warning: voor alles wat voorzichtig moet gebeuren

seealso: voor referenties naar andere documenten als daar speciale aandacht voor nodig is. referneties naar andere documenten kunnen ook in de tekst inline opgenomen worden.

todo: om een lopende ToDo-lijst bij te houden

2.3. Conventies

Elke sectie die met het navigatiemenu te maken heeft, zou het pad moeten tonen, vb Inhoud → Bestanden. Je kunt best te pijl kopiëren om de juiste te hebben.

Knoppen zoals * Bewaar* of Kopieer pagina en ook portfoliosecties zoals Inhoud; Portfolio enz worden benadrukt als vette tekst (met een enkele *).

Er kunnen kleine knopjes in de tekst gezet worden, zoals edit, manage. Ze worden toegevoegd door vervanging. Alle vervangingen worden bijgehouden in het bestand shortcuts.rstext dat in elk bestand wordt toegevoegd waarin een vervanging is gebeurd door gebruik te maken van “.. include:: /shortcuts.rstext” in de eerste regel van het bestand. De referenties naar vervangingen kun je in de tekst terugvinden bijvoorbeeld als “*Edit* button |edit|” en tonen wat de actie is die je ermee wil doen. Vertalers mogen de vervanging zelf “|edit|” niet bewerken, maar enkel de “*Edit* knop” en er op letten om de * terug te plaatsen zonder spaties tussen de * en de tekst.

Er moet een indexverwijzing gemaakt worden voor elke sectie.

Nieuwe functies worden in de index opgenomen en krijgen de vorm “single: New in Mahara 1.6; [the functionality that is new]”.

Lange secties moeten verdeeld worden over meerdere pagina’s om het bewerken meer beheersbaar te maken.

reStructuredText heeft geen hiërarchische set voor hoofding. Ze hangen af van de individuele bestanden. Om consistent te zijn, bestaat volgende afspraak:

Hoofding 1, vb. 1.: ===============

Hoofding 2, vb. 1.1.: —————

Hoofding 3, vb. 1.1.1.: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hoofding 4, vb. 1.1.1.1.: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hoofdingen kleiner dan h4 moeten vermeden worden.

2.4. In-text opmaak

Ongenummerde lijsten krijgen een * als symbool om elk bolletje te beginnen.

Genummerde lijsten krijgen # om elk genummerd item mee te beginnen.

Als je lijst moet inspringen, zet dan een lege regel voor de inspringende lijst en laat elke regel met 3 spaties inspringen. Er moet ook een lege regel zijn aan het einde van de inspringende lijst.

Benadrukte tekst begint en eindigt met 1 *, vb. *dit*. Het zal er uitzien als dit.

Vette tekst begint en eindigt met 2 **, vb. **dit**. Het zal er uitzien als dit.

2.5. Hyperlinks

Externe links: “`[gelinkte tekst] <URL>`_” - Vertalers moeten enkel de “[gelinkte tekst]” vervangen.

Interne verwijzingen waarnaar gelinkt kan worden van ergens anders in de handleiding worden gemaakt door “.. [reference_text]:” te plaatsen in een lijn vlak voor een hoofding. Ik laat gewoonlijk een lege regel tussen de verwijzing en de hoofding.

Linken naar een interne verwijzing: “:ref:`[gelinkte tekst] <de interne verwijzing>`” - Vertalers mogen enkel “[gelinkte tekst]” vervangen.

Het ` is een accent en geen recht enkel aanhalingsteken.

Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | X

A

Account

Custom profile URL

Delete account

General account options

Inbox

Notifications

Password

Settings

Username

Account registration confirmation

Account settings

Administration

Add groups by CSV

Add institution

Institution

Add user

Administration

Add users by CSV

Administration

Admin institution invitation

Institution membership

Admin notifications

Administration

Administer groups

Group

Administration

Account settings

Add user

Add users by CSV

Admin notifications

Change authentication method in bulk

Change user institution settings

Configure site

Delete user

Email settings

Experimental features

Extensions

Footer menu

General settings

Group

Group settings

Institution

Institution settings

Links and resources

Log in as

Maintenance mode

Menu

Networking

Overview

Proxy settings

Registration with the Mahara project

Search settings

Security settings

Share site pages and collections

Site administrators

Site collections

Site files

Site information

Site options

Site pages, [1]

Site settings

Site staff

Suspend user

Suspended and expired users

Update users by CSV

User account settings

User bulk actions

User reports

User search

User settings

Users

Warnings

Advanced search options for shared pages

Allow authenticated feeds

Allow institution administrators to set file quota

Allow users to link own SAML account

Anti-spam

Authentication

Authentication method order

IMAP

LDAP

Persona

SAML

XML-RPC

Authentication method

Authentication method order

Authentication

Automatic access to copied page or collection

Automatically allow public profiles with public pages

B

Block category

External content

Files and images and video

General

Journal

Profile

Résumé

Blocks

Contact information

Creative Commons license

Display an entire journal

Display one journal entry

Display one résumé field

Display recent journal entries

Display tagged journal entries

Display your entire résumé

Embedded media

External feed

External media

File to download

Folder

Google Apps

Group info

Group members

Group pages

Image

Image gallery

Latest pages

My friends

My groups

My inbox

My pages

My watched pages

Navigation

Plans

Profile information

Recent forum posts

Some HTML

Text box

Wall

Blocks usage matrix

Bulk export

Experimental features

Bulk import

Experimental features

Button for copying a group page

C

Change authentication method

Change authentication method in bulk

Administration

Change default account settings upon user creation, [1]

Change remote username

Change user institution settings

Administration

ClamAV

Collaboration

Collection

Add collection

Add pages

Assessment

Copy collection

Feedback on a submitted collection

Manage collections

Manage pages

Share

Comments

Plugins - configurable

Configurable default video size of "Embedded media"

Configurable theme

Institution

Configuration of external image galleries

Configure site

Administration

Contact information

Blocks

Content

Files

Journal

Notes

Plans

Profile

Profile pictures

Remote avatars

Résumé builder

Copy collection

Copy page

Creative Commons license

Blocks

Curriculum vitae

zie Résumé

D

Dashboard

Blocks

Quick links

Default account inactivity time

Default account lifetime

Default notification method

Delete user

Administration

Display an entire journal

Blocks

Display one journal entry

Blocks

Display one résumé field

Blocks

Display recent journal entries

Blocks

Display tagged journal entries

Blocks

Display used file quota in admin area

Display your entire résumé

Blocks

Displaying dashboard content in Moodle

Double-click action when moving users

Drop-down site navigation

E

Edit access to profile page

Edit institution

Institution

Email settings

Administration

Embedded media

Blocks

Plugins - configurable

Enable comments for audio and video files

Enable multiple journals

Exact search

Exact user search

Experimental features

Administration

Bulk export

Bulk import

usersuniquebyusername

Export

HTML

Leap2A

Export feedback in HTML export

Extensions

Administration

HTML filters

Plugins

External content

Block category

External content block

External feed

External media

Google Apps

External feed

Blocks

External media

Blocks

External resources in HTML

F

Feedback

Give feedback

View feedback

File

Edit file

File quota

Plugins - configurable

Upload a file

Upload multiple files

File to download

Blocks

File upload agreement

Profile picture size; Default comment permissions

Files and images and video

Block category

Files and images and video block

Embedded media

File(s) to download

Folder

Image

Image gallery

Some HTML

Find friends

Accept friend request

Deny friend request

Send friend request

Folder

Blocks

Footer menu

Administration

Forum

Add forum topic

Bulk actions

Delete

Plugins - configurable

Post forum reply

Set up a forum

Friend invitation to join a group, [1]

Friend recommendation to join a group, [1]

G

General

Block category

General block

Creative Commons license

Group info

Group members

Group pages

Latest pages

My inbox

My watched pages

Navigation

Plans

Recent forum posts

Text box

General settings

Administration

Generate new public key for MNet by deleting the existing one

Generate sitemap for public content

Glossary

Google Apps

Blocks

Gravatar, [1]

Group

Administer groups

Administration

Collections

Create

Files

Forum

Group administrators

Group bulk creation and update

Group category - manage

Group homepage

Group members bulk update

Members

Pages

Settings

Share

Group administrators

Group

Group bulk creation and update

Group

Group category

Group category - manage

Group

Group deletion notification

Group file quota, [1]

Group homepage

Group

Group info

Blocks

Group members

Blocks

Group members bulk update

Group

Group page editing permission

Group pages

Blocks

Group settings

Administration

Groups

Find friends

Find groups

Group functionalities

Institution membership

My friends

My groups

Shared pages

Topics

H

Hide group

Hide group membership

HTML editor

HTML export

HTML filters

Extensions

I

Image

Blocks

Image gallery

Blocks

Plugins - configurable

Image gallery from external images

IMAP

Authentication

Inbox

Account

Insecure SSL mode for feeds

Institution

Add institution

Administration

Configurable theme

Edit institution

Institution administrator

Institution files

Institution logo upload

Institution pages

Institution staff

Members

New account

Pending user account registration

Share institution collections

Share institution pages

Suspend institution

Institution administrator

Add user

Add users by CSV

Change authentication method in bulk

Group administration

Institution

Institution administration

Update users by CSV

User management

Institution default quota

Institution default quota update

Institution file quota

Institution files

Institution

Institution homepage

Institution logo upload

Institution

Institution membership

Admin institution invitation

Members who left institution

Remove members from institution

Request institution membership

Revoke membership invitation

Institution membership to be found in "Groups"

Institution pages

Institution

Institution setting for "Online users" side block

Institution setting for public pages

Institution settings

Administration

Institution staff

Institution

Institution theme configuration

J

Journal

Add attachment

Add image from Mahara

Add journal entry

Block category

Link image

Multiple journals

Settings

Journal block

Display an entire journal

Display one journal entry

Display recent journal entries

Display tagged journal entries

L

Latest pages

Blocks

LDAP

Authentication

Leap2A export, [1]

Leap2A import

Limit the number of users in the "Online users" sidebar

Limit user search results to institution

Limited deleting of feedback on group pages

Links and resources

Administration

List of accessible portfolio pages on "My friends" page

Log in as

Administration

Logged-in profile page access

Login

M

Mahara

Books

E-learning

Enhancing the software

Framework

Get involved

Help

Test it

Usage

What is it?

Mahoodle, [1]

Mahara to Moodle

Moodle to Mahara

zie XML-RPC

Maintenance mode

Administration

Map student ID and display name from LDAP

Masquerading

zie Log in as

Members

Institution

Members who left institution

Institution membership

Menu

Administration

MNet

zie XML-RPC

Mobile Mahara

MaharaDroid

Mobile browsing

PortfolioUp

Mobile upload, [1]

Moodle

zie XML-RPC

Multiple institutions

Institution expiry; Auto-suspend expired institutions

My friends

Blocks

My groups

Blocks

My inbox

Blocks

My pages

Blocks

My watched pages

Blocks

N

Navigation

Blocks

Networking

Administration

New account

Institution

New in Mahara 1.6

"Edit this tag" button on "My tags"

"Read" notification icon for user messages, [1]

"Site administration" becomes "Administration"

Add institution staff rights during registration approval

Add new journal post directly from a page, [1], [2]

Administrator interface for adding iframe sources

Choose only from tags used in journal entries

Clean URLs

Cron errors are displayed in red

Custom URL for group pages

Custom URL for portfolio pages

Custom group URL

Custom profile URL

Device detection, [1], [2]

Disable bounced email addresses automatically

Display tagged journal entries in full

Download basic page statistics for institutions

Download basic page statistics on the site level

Download daily user statistics for institutions

Download daily user statistics on the site level

Download group statistics on the site level

Editability of group content

Enhanced site statistics

External media iframe filters

Flexibility in number of portfolio pages shown on overview page

Flexibility in number of users shown per page

Group collections

Group information to include number of forums, topics and posts

Historical statistics about content for institutions

Historical statistics about content on the site level

Institution collections

Institution statistics

Institution statistics accessible by staff members

Institution statistics on the site level

Link group names from administrator interface

Link profile picture and name to user profile in "User search"

Local customisation of "Edit site pages" list

Mahara logo that can be picked up by Facebook

Multiple mobile upload tokens

Pagination of posts in a forum topic

Participation report, [1]

Register with a Persona account

Resize images on upload

Resize images on upload - per file upload

Resize images on upload - user default setting

Responsive design, [1]

Self-registration approval for Persona authentication

Show if institutions require approval

Site collections

Small page header is visible at all times

Sort group members

Staff statistics access setting

Statics about forum content in a group

Submit a collection for assessment

Submit collections to a group

Unpublish a journal entry per the "Unpublish" button

User can choose institution theme when in multiple institutions

User can choose theme for browsing the site

Weekly statistics about content for institutions

Weekly statistics about content on the site level

Notes

zie Text box

Notifications

Account

O

Online users side block

Override default site pages

Overview

Administration

Owners retains access to their uploaded files in a group

P

Page

Assessment

Copy page

Create

Display page

Edit

Export

Feedback

Feedback on a submitted page

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R

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usersuniquebyusername

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usersuniquebyusername

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View and reactivate expired users in bulk

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Wall

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XML-RPC

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