Download - Setting up mahara
Setting Up Mahara
Create yourself an account
Joining ‘The Alton College Magazine’ Group
Select ‘Groups’
Then ‘Find Groups’
Now search for ‘The Alton College Magazine’ and request to join this
group
Using the Forum
Under ‘Groups’
Select ‘The Alton College Magazine’
The forums are under ‘Forums’
This is the discussion for the new name.
Please add lots of suggestions! And feel free to start a new discussion if
it’s relevant...
Making Your Work Visible to the Group
In ‘My Portfolio’...
...under ‘My Views’...
...select ‘Create View’
Select ‘Blog’...
...and drag it down here
Tick the box next to your blog
Then hit ‘Save’, then ‘Next’
Put your name in here
And hit ‘Next’
Change this from ‘Users’ to ‘Groups’
Search for ‘The Alton College Magazine’
Next to the name of the magazine, you will be able
to choose who can see your work. It’s up to you whether
you choose ‘Everyone in Group’ or ‘Admin’. Then click the little Add button next to
it.
Click ‘Save’, and that’s it. You should end up with something looking like
this.
You can click ‘Add Post’ and start writing articles. Anything that you add to this blog
is visible to The Alton College Magazine. You can create new blogs, but unless you
add them to the View you just set up, only you can see them.
Under My Blogs now...
And now it’s time to write...