Mahara 18.04 user manual

This is the user manual for Mahara 18.04, which was released on 6 April 2018.

Warning

Mahara 18.04 is not supported any more as of October 2019. Please install or upgrade to a supported version of Mahara.

When you see the “New in Mahara 18.04” icon , a feature was introduced in Mahara 18.04 or changed from Mahara 17.10.

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 18.04?
  • 1.1. GDPR compliance
  • 1.2. Password policy
  • 1.3. Copy portfolios in Leap2A formats
  • 1.4. Outsource files to object storage
  • 1.5. Link to an internal Mahara page
  • 1.6. Link to text within text
  • 1.7. Rotate images
  • 1.8. Link to the user manual in the footer
  • 1.9. Associate an institution with a group
  • 1.10. Decide which assessment statuses to display in SmartEvidence
  • 1.11. Automatic SAML metadata refresh
  • 1.12. Modern date picker
  • 1.13. Make certain tasks faster
  • 1.14. No more Flash
  • 1.15. Expiry of internal notifications
• 2. Inleiding
  • 2.1. Wat is Mahara?
  • 2.2. Het Mahara framewerk
  • 2.3. Hoe past Mahara in het landschap van het e-leren?
  • 2.4. Wat als er in Mahara functionaliteit ontbreekt die ik nodig heb?
  • 2.5. Andere dingen om te doen
  • 2.6. Waar kan ik ideeën vinden over hoe Mahara te gebruiken?
  • 2.7. Hulp zoeken
  • 2.8. Mahara and accessibility
  • 2.9. Which version of Mahara do I have?
• 3. Controlepaneel
  • 3.1. Account
  • 3.2. Login with strict privacy
  • 3.3. Overzicht
  • 3.4. Navigation
  • 3.5. Snelkoppelingen
  • 3.6. Gebruikersspecifieke informatie
  • 3.7. Footer
• 4. Inhoud
  • 4.1. Profile
  • 4.2. Profile pictures
  • 4.3. Bestanden
  • 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. Blokken
  • 7.1. Bestanden, afbeeldingen en video
  • 7.2. Blogs
  • 7.3. Algemeen
  • 7.4. Personal info
  • 7.5. Externe inhoud
  • 7.6. Blocks in various pages
• 8. Instellingen
  • 8.1. Accountinstellingen
  • 8.2. Legal
  • 8.3. Notification settings
  • 8.4. Apps
  • 8.5. Meldingen
• 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. Beheer
  • 10.1. Administration navigation
  • 10.2. Admin home
  • 10.3. Beheer 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. Insert a link to another portfolio page
  • 16.3. Insert a link anchor
  • 16.4. Link to specific Mahara page in Moodle
• 17. Frequently asked questions
  • 17.1. Privacy

For documentation writers

• 1. Takenlijst
• 2. Informatie voor schrijvers van de Mahara handleiding en vertalers
  • 2.1. Install Sphinx
  • 2.2. Make changes to the user manual
  • 2.3. Schermafdrukken
  • 2.4. Gebruikte waarschuwingen zijn
  • 2.5. Conventies
  • 2.6. In-text opmaak
  • 2.7. Hyperlinks
  • 2.8. Translators beware