Mahara 1.9 user manual

This is the user manual for Mahara 1.9, which was released on 15 April 2014.

Waarschuwing

Mahara 1.9 is not supported any more. Please install or upgrade to a supported version.

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Notitie

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License

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Contributors

The Mahara user manual is written by Mahara community members.

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Table of contents

• 1. Inleiding
  • 1.1. Wat is Mahara?
  • 1.2. Het Mahara framewerk
  • 1.3. Hoe past Mahara in het landschap van het e-leren?
  • 1.4. Wat als er in Mahara functionaliteit ontbreekt die ik nodig heb?
  • 1.5. Andere dingen om te doen
  • 1.6. Waar kan ik ideeën vinden over hoe Mahara te gebruiken?
  • 1.7. Hulp zoeken
  • 1.8. Mahara and accessibility
• 2. Controlepaneel
  • 2.1. Account
  • 2.2. Overzicht
  • 2.3. Snelkoppelingen
  • 2.4. Gebruikersspecifieke informatie
• 3. Inhoud
  • 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. Bestanden
    • 3.3.1. Upload een bestand
    • 3.3.2. Upload meerdere bestanden
    • 3.3.3. Bewerk een bestand of map
    • 3.3.4. Download folder content as a zip file
    • 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
    • 3.4.5. 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. What is the difference between themes and page skins?
    • 4.3.4. 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. Restrict access based on time
    • 4.5.4. Choose advanced options
    • 4.5.5. Edit access for users without an account
  • 4.6. Shared with me
  • 4.7. Export
  • 4.8. Import
  • 4.9. Feedback
    • 4.9.1. View feedback
    • 4.9.2. Give feedback
  • 4.10. Feedback for assessment
    • 4.10.1. Submit a page or collection for assessment
    • 4.10.2. Instructor feedback
  • 4.11. Tags
    • 4.11.1. Tag cloud
    • 4.11.2. My tags
    • 4.11.3. 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. Share
    • 5.4.7. Files
    • 5.4.8. Report
  • 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. Topics
• 6. Blokken
  • 6.1. Bestanden, afbeeldingen en video
    • 6.1.1. File(s) to download
    • 6.1.2. Een map
    • 6.1.3. Afbeeldinggalerij
    • 6.1.4. Some HTML
    • 6.1.5. Een Afbeelding
    • 6.1.6. Ingebedde media
    • 6.1.7. PDF
  • 6.2. Blogs
    • 6.2.1. Journal
    • 6.2.2. Journal entry
    • 6.2.3. Recent journal entries
    • 6.2.4. Tagged journal entries
  • 6.3. Algemeen
    • 6.3.1. Text box
    • 6.3.2. Creative Commons license
    • 6.3.3. Navigation
    • 6.3.4. Plans
    • 6.3.5. Inbox
    • 6.3.6. Latest pages
    • 6.3.7. Watched pages
    • 6.3.8. Feedback
    • 6.3.9. Group info
    • 6.3.10. Group members
    • 6.3.11. Group pages
    • 6.3.12. Recent forum posts
  • 6.4. Personal info
    • 6.4.1. My friends
    • 6.4.2. My groups
    • 6.4.3. My pages
    • 6.4.4. Profile information
    • 6.4.5. Wall
    • 6.4.6. Curriculum Vitae
  • 6.5. Externe inhoud
    • 6.5.1. Externe feed
    • 6.5.2. Externe media
    • 6.5.3. Google Apps
  • 6.6. Blocks in various pages
    • 6.6.1. Bestanden, afbeeldingen en video
    • 6.6.2. Blogs
    • 6.6.3. Algemeen
    • 6.6.4. Personal info
    • 6.6.5. Externe inhoud
• 7. Instellingen
  • 7.1. Accountinstellingen
    • 7.1.1. Nieuw wachtwoord
    • 7.1.2. Wijzig gebruikersnaam
    • 7.1.3. Wijzig profiel URL
    • 7.1.4. Algemene instellingen account
    • 7.1.5. Verwijder account
  • 7.2. Meldingen
  • 7.3. Mijn Inbox
• 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. Beheer
  • 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. Beheer site
    • 9.2.1. Site opties
    • 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. Share
    • 9.2.9. Site skins
    • 9.2.10. Fonts
    • 9.2.11. Files
    • 9.2.12. 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. Add user
    • 9.3.7. Add and update users by CSV
    • 9.3.8. 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. Add and update groups by CSV
    • 9.4.4. Update group members by CSV
  • 9.5. Institutions
    • 9.5.1. Overview
    • 9.5.2. Add an institution
    • 9.5.3. Edit an institution
    • 9.5.4. Institution static pages
    • 9.5.5. Members
    • 9.5.6. Institution staff
    • 9.5.7. Institution administrators
    • 9.5.8. Admin notifications
    • 9.5.9. Profile completion
    • 9.5.10. Institution pages
    • 9.5.11. Institution collections
    • 9.5.12. Share institution pages and collections
    • 9.5.13. Files
    • 9.5.14. Institution statistics
    • 9.5.15. 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
  • 9.7. Experimental features
    • 9.7.1. Bulk export of Leap2A files
    • 9.7.2. Bulk import of Leap2A files
    • 9.7.3. usersuniquebyusername variable
• 10. Staff access
  • 10.1. User search
  • 10.2. Viewing user reports
  • 10.3. 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. Open Badges
    • 14.1.1. Create a collection of badges
    • 14.1.2. Select the badge collection in Mahara
    • 14.1.3. Generate an iframe for your badge collection
    • 14.1.4. Embed your badge collection in a Mahara page
  • 14.2. Link to specific Mahara page in Moodle
  • 14.3. Portfolios and assessment
    • 14.3.1. Pedagogy
    • 14.3.2. Assignment types that suit an ePortfolio
    • 14.3.3. References

For documentation writers

• 1. Takenlijst
• 2. Informatie voor schrijvers van de Mahara handleiding en vertalers
  • 2.1. Schermafdrukken
  • 2.2. Gebruikte waarschuwingen zijn
  • 2.3. Conventies
  • 2.4. In-text opmaak
  • 2.5. Hyperlinks
  • 2.6. Index entries
  • 2.7. Translators beware