Mahara 17.10 user manual

This is the user manual for Mahara 17.10, which was released on 30 October 2017.

Warning

Mahara 17.10 is not supported any more as of April 2019. Please install or upgrade to a supported version of Mahara.

When you see the “New in Mahara 17.10” icon , a feature was introduced in Mahara 17.10 or changed from Mahara 17.04.

Note

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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 17.10?
  • 1.1. Reports
  • 1.2. Elasticsearch upgrade
  • 1.3. Consolidated page edit screens
  • 1.4. Search notifications
  • 1.5. Group pages block renamed
  • 1.6. Show group members without portfolio submission
  • 1.7. Display group collections on group homepage
  • 1.8. Logo for small devices
  • 1.9. Support for ADFS authentication
  • 1.10. Set SAML as parent authentication to LTI
  • 1.11. Insert base64-encoded images
  • 1.12. Collapse SmartEvidence standard group
• 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. Navigation
  • 3.4. Quick links
  • 3.5. 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 and collections
  • 5.2. Page editor
  • 5.3. Skins
  • 5.4. Shared by me
  • 5.5. Shared with me
  • 5.6. Export
  • 5.7. Import
  • 5.8. Commenting
  • 5.9. Feedback for assessment
  • 5.10. SmartEvidence
  • 5.11. Objectionable material
  • 5.12. 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 people
  • 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. Reports
  • 10.8. Extensions
  • 10.9. SmartEvidence
  • 10.10. Web services
  • 10.11. Experimental features
  • 10.12. Config.php variables
  • 10.13. Command-line interfaces (CLI)
  • 10.14. Style guide
• 11. Staff access
  • 11.1. User search
  • 11.2. Reports
• 12. External apps via LTI
  • 12.1. Setup on Mahara
  • 12.2. Use LTI with a second authentication method
  • 12.3. Setup in Canvas
  • 12.4. Setup in Moodle
  • 12.5. Setup in Blackboard
• 13. Mahoodle
  • 13.1. Moodle to Mahara
  • 13.2. Mahara to Moodle
  • 13.3. Link to specific Mahara page in Moodle
• 14. Mobile Mahara
  • 14.1. Mobile browsing
  • 14.2. Mahara Mobile
  • 14.3. Previous Mahara apps
• 15. Glossary
• 16. Tips and tricks
  • 16.1. Insert an image into text
  • 16.2. 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. Make changes to the user manual
  • 2.3. Screenshots
  • 2.4. Admonitions in use are
  • 2.5. Conventions
  • 2.6. In-text formatting
  • 2.7. Hyperlinks
  • 2.8. Translators beware