Mahara 1.4 user manual

This is the user manual for Mahara 1.4, released on 13 June 2011.

Warning

Mahara 1.4 is not supported anymore. Please install or upgrade to a supported version.

License

The Mahara user manual is licensed under your choice of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 unported or GNU General Public License version 3 or later.

Contributors

The Mahara user manual is a collaborative writing effort. Numerous people contribute to it and its translations.

You can see the list of contributors to the user manual on Ohloh for contributions to the English version of the manual and images for the translations. On Launchpad you can check for the translations of the user manual and their contributors.

Table of contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. What is Mahara?
  • 1.2. The Mahara framework
  • 1.3. How does Mahara fit in to the e-learning landscape?
  • 1.4. What if Mahara does not support a feature I want?
  • 1.5. Other things to do
  • 1.6. Where can I get ideas of how to use Mahara?
  • 1.7. Getting help
• 2. Dashboard
  • 2.1. Overview
  • 2.2. Quick links
  • 2.3. User-specific information
• 3. Content
  • 3.1. Profile
    • 3.1.1. About me
    • 3.1.2. Contact information, Messaging, General
  • 3.2. Profile Pictures
    • 3.2.1. Pictures uploaded to Mahara
    • 3.2.2. Remote avatars
  • 3.3. Files
    • 3.3.1. Upload a file
    • 3.3.2. Upload multiple files
    • 3.3.3. Create a folder
    • 3.3.4. Delete a file or folder
    • 3.3.5. 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
  • 3.5. Résumé
    • 3.5.1. Introduction
    • 3.5.2. Education & 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
• 4. Portfolio
  • 4.1. Pages
    • 4.1.1. Overview page
    • 4.1.2. Create a new page
    • 4.1.3. Edit a page
    • 4.1.4. View a page
    • 4.1.5. Give others access to your page
  • 4.2. Page editor
    • 4.2.1. Editor navigation
    • 4.2.2. Artefact chooser
    • 4.2.3. Page layout area
    • 4.2.4. Optional theme chooser
  • 4.3. Collections
    • 4.3.1. Add a collection
    • 4.3.2. Edit collection pages
    • 4.3.3. Manage collection pages
    • 4.3.4. Manage your collections
    • 4.3.5. Give others access to your collection
  • 4.4. Share
    • 4.4.1. Edit access for users with an account
    • 4.4.2. Restrict access based on time
    • 4.4.3. Choose advanced options
    • 4.4.4. Edit access for users with no account
  • 4.5. Export
  • 4.6. Feedback
  • 4.7. Feedback for assessment
    • 4.7.1. Submit a page 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
• 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, staff or institution admin
    • 5.3.2. Create a group as a site admin
    • 5.3.3. Edit general group settings
  • 5.4. Inside a group
    • 5.4.1. Group homepage
    • 5.4.2. Members
    • 5.4.3. Forums
    • 5.4.4. Pages
    • 5.4.5. Files
  • 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. Shared pages
  • 5.8. Topics
• 6. Blocks
  • 6.1. External content
    • 6.1.1. External feed
    • 6.1.2. External video
    • 6.1.3. Google Apps
  • 6.2. Files, images and video
    • 6.2.1. File(s) to Download
    • 6.2.2. A Folder
    • 6.2.3. Image Gallery
    • 6.2.4. Some HTML
    • 6.2.5. An Image
    • 6.2.6. Embedded Media
  • 6.3. General
    • 6.3.1. Creative Commons License
    • 6.3.2. Navigation
    • 6.3.3. Your Plans
    • 6.3.4. Recent Forum Posts
    • 6.3.5. Text Box
    • 6.3.6. My Inbox
    • 6.3.7. Latest Pages
    • 6.3.8. Group Info
    • 6.3.9. Group Members
    • 6.3.10. Group Pages
  • 6.4. Journals
    • 6.4.1. Display an entire journal
    • 6.4.2. Display one journal entry
    • 6.4.3. Display recent journal entries
  • 6.5. Profile
    • 6.5.1. Contact information
    • 6.5.2. My Friends
    • 6.5.3. My Groups
    • 6.5.4. My Pages
    • 6.5.5. Profile information
    • 6.5.6. Wall
  • 6.6. Résumé
    • 6.6.1. Display your entire résumé
    • 6.6.2. Display one résumé field
  • 6.7. Blocks in various pages
• 7. Settings
  • 7.1. Account settings
    • 7.1.1. New password
    • 7.1.2. Change username
    • 7.1.3. General account options
    • 7.1.4. Delete account
  • 7.2. Notifications
  • 7.3. Inbox
  • 7.4. Institution membership
• 8. Site administration
  • 8.1. Overview
    • 8.1.1. Navigation
    • 8.1.2. Register your Mahara site
    • 8.1.3. Site information
    • 8.1.4. Site statistics
    • 8.1.5. Close site
  • 8.2. Configure site
    • 8.2.1. Site options
    • 8.2.2. Edit site pages
    • 8.2.3. Menus
    • 8.2.4. Networking
    • 8.2.5. Pages
    • 8.2.6. Share
    • 8.2.7. Files
  • 8.3. Users
    • 8.3.1. User search
    • 8.3.2. User account settings
    • 8.3.3. Suspended users
    • 8.3.4. Staff users
    • 8.3.5. Site admins
    • 8.3.6. Admin notifications
    • 8.3.7. Add user
    • 8.3.8. Add users by CSV
  • 8.4. Groups
    • 8.4.1. Overview
    • 8.4.2. Add / remove group administrators
    • 8.4.3. Manage group categories
  • 8.5. Institutions
    • 8.5.1. Overview
    • 8.5.2. Add an institution
    • 8.5.3. Edit an institution
    • 8.5.4. Members
    • 8.5.5. Institution staff
    • 8.5.6. Institution administrators
    • 8.5.7. Institution pages
    • 8.5.8. Share institution pages
    • 8.5.9. Files
  • 8.6. Extensions
    • 8.6.1. Plugin administration
    • 8.6.2. HTML filters
  • 8.7. Experimental features
    • 8.7.1. Bulk export of Leap2A files
    • 8.7.2. Bulk import of Leap2A files
• 9. Institution administration
• 10. Mobile Mahara
  • 10.1. MaharaDroid
  • 10.2. PortfolioUp

For documentation writers

• 1. ToDo list
• 2. Information for Mahara documentation writers