Guide for Mahara My Views PY1 team 3 - Yihong Huo, Jian Ren, Poonam Kala 1Guide of My Views - Team...

Guide for MaharaMy Views

PY1 team 3 - Yihong Huo, Jian Ren, Poonam Kala

1Guide of My Views - Team 3

Structure of this guide

• Brief introduction of My Views • Access My Views page• Create a new view

• Create view step one: Layout• Create view step two: Detail• Create view step three: Access

• Create a new template• Copy a view• Delete a view• Submit a view for assessment• Edit view details, view content / layout, view access• Conclusion


Brief Introduction of My Views

In Mahara, all blogs, resumes and other types of uploaded resources are called Artefacts. You can easily share all these information to others by using My View function in Mahara. In My View, you can create as many views as want. These views can be used to present different photos, videos from Youtube or even your personally resumes and blogs. You can set different rules to show these views to different group of audiences. You can reuse or rename these views depend on different context.


Here is the My Views.


Here shows the location you can access the My View function.

See the navigation bar

You can access the My Views page once you login.

My Portfolio -> My Views


The My Views Page

In My Views page, you could see the views list as the right

picture.

As you can see, there are three buttons indicating the

operations you could use.

Create ViewCreate Template

Copy a View


My Views Interface

The picture below show is the My views interface:

You can have multiple views under one account.

• Use Create View Bottom to create a new view; • Use Create Template Bottom to create a new view template; • Use Copy View Bottom to copy view.


Create a view

If you want to create a view, just click the Create View button. Then you will be redirected to the Create View Step One: Layout


Create a ViewTo Create a View, Click Create View bottomThen we get into Our View Creation Step one: Layout!This is the Default Layout page☺


The default layout page

The page is divided into 3 parts1: Title part: include: my view, my files my blogs


The default layout page

The page is divided into 3 parts2: the View elements: this is a very important part


The default layout page This part is the content part:

All those content can be shown in you views page.The way to make than available to you view page is to simply drag the web part to the third part:

Page Layout design!


The default layout page 3: Page Content part:

To get the select web part from web content part, just drag and place it to the blank areayou can see from this picture.it is so simple☺


The default layout page You can drag the web part as much as you want, but you can only get 3 columns.

What if One want More / Less columns?


Change layout

To change layout:Click the green text above the “Drag blocks ” text

The one with a small pen in front andA big ? At the end.


Change layoutHere you can see, the current number of columns is 3This mean that you can only have 3 columns in you view.To change the number, click the drop down list☺


Change Columns

Select the number of columns you want in your view~And then click next!


If you select 2, 3 columns, then click next;There will be options to define the width of eachColumns.

Change Columns


Then you can click the dot point under the column width box.

Then click change my view layout!

Change Columns


And now, there are only 2 columns left. Let’s compare this one with our default picture☺

Change Columns


Before we change:

After we change:

Change Columns


Create a View Step Two: Details• In the view details, you can add Title and Description with any tags that will help

you to find the view and select how you want your name to be displayed on the View page.

• The Description you add in the HTML editor will appear in the finished version of your View, so you may wish to change your font to match the colour and size in your local Mahara installation.

• You can add tags to views you create. Tags allow you add descriptive labels to views, which you can use to classify and search for them.


Create a View Step Three: Access• This step we can assign access rights to groups or individuals if

required.

• Select the View to change and select Edit View access button

• You can choose to add people who can access your view from Public, Logged in users, Friends or Groups

• Select who you want to give access to and then select Add.

• You can use the search box to add individual users or groups

• The individual users or groups you added will appear in the right lane, under the Added heading


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• If you want you can set date and time of view access it means you can give access to your view for a certain period.

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Create a View Step Three: Access

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Create a template

If you want to create a template of view which you can reuse it, then you should click on the Create Template button.

In fact, steps to create templates are the same as to create new views. You will easily get familiar with using create template function once you know how to create a view.


Copy a view

If you already have view/s in the My Views list, you could copy one of the existing view once a time. You could changed the name of the new view after you finish editing it.


Copy a view

You can select the Copy View button next to the view you want to copy.


Delete a viewIf you want to delete a view, just click on the Delete this View link. The link will link you to

the confirming page.

Once a view is deleted, a reminder will be shown on the top of the main content.

You can select “Yes” to delete the view, or “No” to cancel operation.


Submit a view for assessment

You could submit a particular view to the group you belonging to for assessment. To submit a view, please click on the Submit button in the bottom of that view.


Edit view details, layout and access

In fact, the edit functions are similar to those functions you will use to create new views. So you can refer to create view steps for more information.


Thank You

Editors list:

Yihong Huo, Jian Ren, Poonam Kala

All pictures are captured from Mahara System:

http://eportfolio.acs.org.au/

Thank you for reading this guide!If you have any suggestion, please visit our forum: http://eportfolio.acs.org.au/interaction/forum/view.php?id=4


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