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Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517768
Pages 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Mahara ePortfolios Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. What can Mahara do for you? 2. Getting Started with Mahara 3. Create and Collect Content 4. Organize and Showcase your Portfolio 5. Share and Network in Groups 6. Course Groups and Other Roles in Mahara 7. Mahara Extensions Mahara Implementation Pre-Planner Installing Mahara Pop quiz — Answers

Collections — linking pages together


Collections are simply a way of combining several pages together into one entity. They are really useful for creating a coherent story when you feel that one page alone doesn't give you enough space to do so.

Here are a few things that you can do with collections:

  • Link pages together and give them a navigational block, so that they can be easily navigated between

  • Order the pages to your liking, not necessarily alphabetically

  • Give access to a whole collection rather than each page at a time

  • Copy a whole collection

With pages in Mahara, you can create a mini-website with individual pages, a navigation system, and the ability to share it with whoever you like. Let's have a look at a few ideas for how you can use collections:

  • In a topical approach to a school project: The students might prepare a "The Tudors" collection of different pages including, for example: "Science and the Tudors", "Language and the Tudors", "Theatre and the Tudors", "Politics and the Tudors...

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