Mahara 16.10 user manual

This is the user manual for Mahara 16.10, which was released on 21 October 2016.

Warning

Mahara 16.10 is not supported any more as of April 2018. Please install or upgrade to a supported version of Mahara.

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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 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. What’s new in Mahara 16.10?
  • 1.1. SmartEvidence
  • 1.2. Mahara Mobile
  • 1.3. New media file formats
  • 1.4. Hide deleted comments when not needed for context
  • 1.5. Copy the “Tagged journal entries” block configuration
  • 1.6. Skins are private per default
  • 1.7. Don’t show watchlist and objectionable content links on your own pages
  • 1.8. Mark required fields more clearly
  • 1.9. Copy a group
  • 1.10. Export group membership
  • 1.11. Export group settings
  • 1.12. Inactive users are highlighted in the administrator’s user search
  • 1.13. Show institution short name
  • 1.14. Clear caches
  • 1.15. SimpleSAMLphp is managed dependency
  • 1.16. Allow auto-creation of accounts via SAML on multi-tenanted sites
  • 1.17. Removed Persona authentication
  • 1.18. Changes to web services
• 2. Introduction
  • 2.1. What is Mahara?
  • 2.2. The Mahara framework
  • 2.3. How does Mahara fit in to the e-learning landscape?
  • 2.4. What if Mahara does not support a feature I want?
  • 2.5. Other things to do
  • 2.6. Where can I get ideas of how to use Mahara?
  • 2.7. Getting help
  • 2.8. Mahara and accessibility
  • 2.9. Which version of Mahara do I have?
• 3. Dashboard
  • 3.1. Login
  • 3.2. Overview
  • 3.3. Quick links
  • 3.4. User-specific information
• 4. Content
  • 4.1. Profile
  • 4.2. Profile pictures
  • 4.3. Files
  • 4.4. Journals
  • 4.5. Résumé
  • 4.6. Plans
  • 4.7. Notes
• 5. Portfolio
  • 5.1. Pages
  • 5.2. Page editor
  • 5.3. Skins
  • 5.4. Collections
  • 5.5. Shared by me
  • 5.6. Shared with me
  • 5.7. Export
  • 5.8. Import
  • 5.9. Commenting
  • 5.10. Feedback for assessment
  • 5.11. SmartEvidence
  • 5.12. Objectionable material
  • 5.13. Tags
• 6. Groups
  • 6.1. My groups
  • 6.2. Find groups
  • 6.3. Set up a group
  • 6.4. Inside a group
  • 6.5. My friends
  • 6.6. Find friends
  • 6.7. Institution membership
  • 6.8. Topics
• 7. Blocks
  • 7.1. Files, images and video
  • 7.2. Journals
  • 7.3. General
  • 7.4. Personal info
  • 7.5. External content
  • 7.6. Blocks in various pages
• 8. Settings
  • 8.1. Account settings
  • 8.2. Notification settings
  • 8.3. Apps
  • 8.4. Notifications
• 9. Fulltext search
  • 9.1. Search for text
  • 9.2. Search for media
  • 9.3. Search for portfolios
  • 9.4. Search for users
  • 9.5. Search for groups
• 10. Administration
  • 10.1. Administration navigation
  • 10.2. Admin home
  • 10.3. Configure site
  • 10.4. Users
  • 10.5. Groups
  • 10.6. Institutions
  • 10.7. Extensions
  • 10.8. SmartEvidence
  • 10.9. Web services
  • 10.10. Experimental features
  • 10.11. Config.php variables
  • 10.12. Style guide
• 11. Staff access
  • 11.1. User search and user reports
  • 11.2. Institution statistics
• 12. Mahoodle
  • 12.1. Moodle to Mahara
  • 12.2. Mahara to Moodle
  • 12.3. Link to specific Mahara page in Moodle
• 13. Mobile Mahara
  • 13.1. Mobile browsing
  • 13.2. Mahara Mobile
  • 13.3. Previous Mahara apps
• 14. Glossary
• 15. Tips and tricks
  • 15.1. Insert an image into text
  • 15.2. 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