Mahara 15.10 user manual

This is the user manual for Mahara 15.10, which was released on 23 October 2015.

Warning

Mahara 15.10 is not supported any more as of May 2017. Please install or upgrade to a supported version of Mahara.

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Note

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Contributors

The Mahara user manual is written by Mahara community members. You can see the list of contributors to the user manual on Open Hub for contributions to the English version of the manual and images for the translations. On Launchpad you can check for all 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
  • 1.8. Mahara and accessibility
  • 1.9. Which version of Mahara do I have?
• 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. Social media
    • 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. File browser
    • 3.3.2. Upload a file
    • 3.3.3. Upload multiple files
    • 3.3.4. Edit a file or folder
    • 3.3.5. File quota
  • 3.4. Journals
    • 3.4.1. Change your journal settings
    • 3.4.2. Add a journal entry
    • 3.4.3. Add an image into a journal entry
    • 3.4.4. Add a file as attachment to a journal entry
    • 3.4.5. Work with multiple journals
  • 3.5. Résumé
    • 3.5.1. Introduction
    • 3.5.2. Education and employment
    • 3.5.3. Achievements
    • 3.5.4. Goals and skills
    • 3.5.5. Interests
    • 3.5.6. License
  • 3.6. Plans
    • 3.6.1. Create a new plan
    • 3.6.2. Add tasks to a plan
    • 3.6.3. View all tasks of a plan
    • 3.6.4. Edit tasks in a plan
  • 3.7. 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. Profile page
    • 4.1.3. Create a new page
    • 4.1.4. Edit an existing page
    • 4.1.5. Copy a page
    • 4.1.6. View a page
    • 4.1.7. Give others access to your page
    • 4.1.8. Delete a 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. Content chooser
    • 4.2.5. Page layout area
  • 4.3. Skins
    • 4.3.1. Create a skin
    • 4.3.2. Choose a skin
    • 4.3.3. View a page with a skin
    • 4.3.4. What is the difference between themes and page skins?
    • 4.3.5. Disallow skins on a theme
  • 4.4. Collections
    • 4.4.1. Manage your collections
    • 4.4.2. Add a collection
    • 4.4.3. Copy a collection
    • 4.4.4. Add collection pages
    • 4.4.5. Manage collection pages
    • 4.4.6. Give others access to your collection
  • 4.5. Shared by me
    • 4.5.1. Edit access for users with an account
    • 4.5.2. Edit access to your profile page
    • 4.5.3. Edit access for users without an account
  • 4.6. Shared with me
  • 4.7. Export
  • 4.8. Import
  • 4.9. Commenting
    • 4.9.1. View page comments
    • 4.9.2. View artefact comments
    • 4.9.3. Comment on portfolios
  • 4.10. Feedback for assessment
    • 4.10.1. Submit a page or collection for assessment
    • 4.10.2. Instructor feedback
  • 4.11. Objectionable material
    • 4.11.1. Report objectionable material
    • 4.11.2. Review objectionable material
  • 4.12. Tags
    • 4.12.1. Tag cloud
    • 4.12.2. My tags
    • 4.12.3. 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 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
    • 5.4.3. Forums
    • 5.4.4. Pages
    • 5.4.5. Collections
    • 5.4.6. Journals
    • 5.4.7. Share
    • 5.4.8. Files
    • 5.4.9. Report
  • 5.5. My friends
    • 5.5.1. Friends overview page
    • 5.5.2. Remove a friend
  • 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. Topics
• 6. Blocks
  • 6.1. Files, images and video
    • 6.1.1. Embedded media
    • 6.1.2. File(s) to download
    • 6.1.3. Folder
    • 6.1.4. Image
    • 6.1.5. Image gallery
    • 6.1.6. PDF
    • 6.1.7. Some HTML
  • 6.2. Journals
    • 6.2.1. Journal
    • 6.2.2. Journal entry
    • 6.2.3. Recent journal entries
    • 6.2.4. Tagged journal entries
  • 6.3. General
    • 6.3.1. Annotation
    • 6.3.2. Creative Commons license
    • 6.3.3. Comments
    • 6.3.4. Group info
    • 6.3.5. Group members
    • 6.3.6. Group pages
    • 6.3.7. Inbox
    • 6.3.8. Latest changes I can view
    • 6.3.9. Navigation
    • 6.3.10. Note
    • 6.3.11. Plans
    • 6.3.12. Recent forum posts
    • 6.3.13. Text
    • 6.3.14. Watched pages
  • 6.4. Personal info
    • 6.4.1. My friends
    • 6.4.2. My groups
    • 6.4.3. My portfolios
    • 6.4.4. Profile information
    • 6.4.5. Social media
    • 6.4.6. Wall
    • 6.4.7. Résumé
  • 6.5. External content
    • 6.5.1. External feed
    • 6.5.2. External media
    • 6.5.3. Google Apps
  • 6.6. Blocks in various pages
    • 6.6.1. Files, images and video
    • 6.6.2. Journals
    • 6.6.3. General
    • 6.6.4. Personal info
    • 6.6.5. External content
• 7. Settings
  • 7.1. Account settings
    • 7.1.1. New password
    • 7.1.2. Change username
    • 7.1.3. Change profile URL
    • 7.1.4. General account options
    • 7.1.5. Delete account
  • 7.2. Notification settings
  • 7.3. Notifications
    • 7.3.1. Inbox
    • 7.3.2. Sent
    • 7.3.3. Send a message
• 8. Fulltext search
  • 8.1. Search for text
  • 8.2. Search for media
  • 8.3. Search for portfolios
  • 8.4. Search for users
  • 8.5. Search for groups
• 9. Administration
  • 9.1. Overview
    • 9.1.1. Admin home
    • 9.1.2. Warnings
    • 9.1.3. Register your Mahara site
    • 9.1.4. Site information
    • 9.1.5. Site statistics
    • 9.1.6. Close site
  • 9.2. Configure site
    • 9.2.1. Site options
    • 9.2.2. Static pages
    • 9.2.3. Menus
    • 9.2.4. Networking
    • 9.2.5. Licenses
    • 9.2.6. Pages
    • 9.2.7. Collections
    • 9.2.8. Site journals
    • 9.2.9. Share
    • 9.2.10. Site skins
    • 9.2.11. Fonts
    • 9.2.12. Files
    • 9.2.13. Cookie Consent
  • 9.3. Users
    • 9.3.1. User search
    • 9.3.2. User account settings
    • 9.3.3. Suspended and expired users
    • 9.3.4. Site staff
    • 9.3.5. Site administrators
    • 9.3.6. Export queue
    • 9.3.7. Add user
    • 9.3.8. Add and update users by CSV
    • 9.3.9. Change the authentication method and remote username in bulk
  • 9.4. Groups
    • 9.4.1. Administer groups
    • 9.4.2. Group categories
    • 9.4.3. Archived submissions
    • 9.4.4. Add and update groups by CSV
    • 9.4.5. Update group members by CSV
  • 9.5. Institutions
    • 9.5.1. Overview
    • 9.5.2. Add an institution
    • 9.5.3. Edit the site institution
    • 9.5.4. Edit an institution
    • 9.5.5. Institution static pages
    • 9.5.6. Members
    • 9.5.7. Institution staff
    • 9.5.8. Institution administrators
    • 9.5.9. Admin notifications
    • 9.5.10. Profile completion
    • 9.5.11. Institution pages
    • 9.5.12. Institution collections
    • 9.5.13. Institution journals
    • 9.5.14. Share institution pages and collections
    • 9.5.15. Files
    • 9.5.16. Institution statistics
    • 9.5.17. Pending registrations
  • 9.6. Extensions
    • 9.6.1. Plugin administration
    • 9.6.2. HTML filters
    • 9.6.3. Allowed iframe sources
    • 9.6.4. Clean URLs
    • 9.6.5. Web services
  • 9.7. Web services
    • 9.7.1. Configuration
    • 9.7.2. OAuth service registration
    • 9.7.3. Web services logs
    • 9.7.4. Web services test client
    • 9.7.5. Application connections
  • 9.8. Experimental features
    • 9.8.1. Bulk export of Leap2A files
    • 9.8.2. Bulk import of Leap2A files
    • 9.8.3. usersuniquebyusername variable
• 10. Staff access
  • 10.1. User search and user reports
  • 10.2. Institution statistics
• 11. Mahoodle
  • 11.1. Moodle to Mahara
  • 11.2. Mahara to Moodle
  • 11.3. Link to specific Mahara page in Moodle
• 12. Mobile Mahara
  • 12.1. Mobile browsing
  • 12.2. MaharaDroid
  • 12.3. PortfolioUp
• 13. Glossary
• 14. Tips and tricks
  • 14.1. Insert an image into text
  • 14.2. Open Badges
    • 14.2.1. Create a collection of badges
    • 14.2.2. Select the badge collection in Mahara
    • 14.2.3. Generate an iframe for your badge collection
    • 14.2.4. Embed your badge collection in a Mahara page
  • 14.3. Link to specific Mahara page in Moodle

For documentation writers

• 1. ToDo list
• 2. Information for Mahara user manual writers and translators
  • 2.1. Install Sphinx
  • 2.2. Getting the code
  • 2.3. Screenshots
  • 2.4. Admonitions in use are
  • 2.5. Conventions
  • 2.6. In-text formatting
  • 2.7. Hyperlinks
  • 2.8. Translators beware