Mahara 1.5 user manual

This is the user manual for Mahara 1.5, released on 17 April 2012.

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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. Login
  • 2.2. Overview
  • 2.3. Quick links
  • 2.4. User-specific information
• 3. Content
  • 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. 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 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. My notes
    • 3.7.1. View your notes
    • 3.7.2. Edit your notes
• 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. Artefact chooser
    • 4.2.3. Page layout area
    • 4.2.4. 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
  • 4.7. 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
    • 5.3.2. Create a group as staff member or institution admin
    • 5.3.3. Create a group as a site admin
    • 5.3.4. 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. Institution membership
  • 5.8. Shared pages
  • 5.9. Topics
• 6. Blocks
  • 6.1. Files, images and video
    • 6.1.1. File(s) to download
    • 6.1.2. Folder
    • 6.1.3. Image gallery
    • 6.1.4. Some HTML
    • 6.1.5. Image
    • 6.1.6. Embedded media
  • 6.2. Journals
    • 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. General
    • 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
    • 6.3.6. My inbox
    • 6.3.7. Latest pages
    • 6.3.8. My watched pages
    • 6.3.9. Group info
    • 6.3.10. Group members
    • 6.3.11. Group pages
  • 6.4. Profile
    • 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. Résumé
    • 6.5.1. Display your entire résumé
    • 6.5.2. Display one résumé field
  • 6.6. External content
    • 6.6.1. External feed
    • 6.6.2. External media
    • 6.6.3. Google Apps
  • 6.7. Blocks in various pages
    • 6.7.1. Files, images and video
    • 6.7.2. Journals
    • 6.7.3. General
    • 6.7.4. Profile
    • 6.7.5. Résumé
    • 6.7.6. External content
• 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
• 8. Site administration
  • 8.1. Overview
    • 8.1.1. Navigation
    • 8.1.2. Warnings
    • 8.1.3. Register your Mahara site
    • 8.1.4. Site information
    • 8.1.5. Site statistics
    • 8.1.6. 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 and expired users
    • 8.3.4. Site staff
    • 8.3.5. Site admins
    • 8.3.6. Admin notifications
    • 8.3.7. Add user
    • 8.3.8. Add and update users by CSV
    • 8.3.9. Change the authentication method and remote username in bulk
  • 8.4. Groups
    • 8.4.1. Administer groups
    • 8.4.2. Manage a group
    • 8.4.3. Manage group categories
    • 8.4.4. Add and update groups by CSV
    • 8.4.5. Update group members by CSV
  • 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
    • 8.5.10. Pending registrations
  • 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
    • 8.7.3. usersuniquebyusername variable
• 9. Institution administration
  • 9.1. Manage users
    • 9.1.1. User search
    • 9.1.2. User account settings
    • 9.1.3. Suspended and expired users
    • 9.1.4. Add user
    • 9.1.5. Add and update users by CSV
    • 9.1.6. Change the authentication method and remote username in bulk
  • 9.2. Manage groups
    • 9.2.1. Add and update groups by CSV
    • 9.2.2. Update group members by CSV
  • 9.3. Manage institutions
    • 9.3.1. Settings
    • 9.3.2. Members
    • 9.3.3. Institution staff
    • 9.3.4. Institution administrators
    • 9.3.5. Admin notifications
    • 9.3.6. Institution pages
    • 9.3.7. Share
    • 9.3.8. Institution files
    • 9.3.9. Pending registrations
• 10. Staff access
  • 10.1. Searching for institution members
  • 10.2. Viewing user reports
• 11. Mahoodle
  • 11.1. Moodle to Mahara
  • 11.2. Mahara to Moodle
• 12. Mobile Mahara
  • 12.1. MaharaDroid
  • 12.2. PortfolioUp

For documentation writers

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