Wednesday, February 06, 2013

More Mahara - audio, templates, planning and more

So you have used Mahara to create a page and share it. There are more things that you can do with Mahara, such as adding audio, creating a template and using its basic planning application. This session demonstrated these facilities and showed examples of how they could be used.

Pre-requisites for this session

Summary of creating a page and secret URL

See Mahara guide (PDF) http://tinyurl.com/coventry-e-portfolio
NOTE: there's an Addendum to page 2 (PDF), to reflect the new access via Moodle 2 

Exporting some pages and adding them to Curve

Mahara Basics Demonstration Update (PDF) - see pages 3 and 4

 

Example pages exported

audio - flickr - issuu - PowerPoint slides as images Then this was unzipped and uploaded to Curve

Adding audio

See the Spicynodes mindmap The mindmap is embedded in the audio examples page

Creating a template

eg SWOT analysis and general instructions see handouts in the CUBA Mahara help site

More advanced, includes help video and narration: adding a template page for others in a Group to share

Using Mahara's basic planning application

Use Plans, Tasks within plans and adding them to a page (General tab - Plans)