Portfolio → Pages
A page contains a selection of artefacts which you arrange and present to others. These may include:
You can re-use the artefacts that you collected under Content in as many pages as you wish.
The same artefacts can appear in multiple pages
On the landing page of the portfolio, you can do the following.
The landing page of your portfolio
Click the Create page button to start a new page from scratch.
Click the Copy a page button to choose an existing page of yours or from another user as basis for a new page.
Search: Enter your search term and decide in which context you wish to search it for within your portfolio. Click the Search button to start your search.
Click the Edit button to make changes to your dashboard page. You cannot delete your dashboard page.
Click the Edit button to make changes to your profile page. You cannot delete your profile page.
Click the Edit button to update your portfolio pages.
Click the Delete button to remove your pages.
Warning
When you delete a page, links to external content such as embedded external videos and RSS feeds to an external blog are completely deleted. You cannot recover them. There is no revision history. All other artefacts are not deleted because they reside in your Content area.
When you submitted a portfolio page to a group, you cannot change a great number of the page’s content or delete it until the page is released again.
You can choose how many portfolio pages you wish to display on the overview page at once. Your options are 10, 20, 50, 100 or 500 results. All remaining pages can be reached via the pager.
Your profile page is visible to other users on Mahara by default. If your administrator allowed it, you can also make it visible to anybody on the Internet.
Per default only the following information is put onto your profile page:
We advise you not to use your profile page as your portfolio because you cannot control who can look at the information you make available on your profile. At minimum it is everybody in your institution or who has an account on Mahara. At maximum it can be everybody online. Always remember to think about your own personal security before releasing contact information on a publicly available page or even just for other Mahara users.
Note
Once you have made your profile page or any portfolio page public, Google and other search engines can index and cache it. Even if you take the public access away at some point, the cached version may still be available online. Pages that are made available via a secret URL are not found by search engines unless you link to them from another page.
Use regular pages to create your portfolio, and then use your profile to make these pages accessible to other people and to establish your digital identity.
See also
You can edit your profile page like any other page. You can find more information about editing a page in the page editor.
You create a new page in your portfolio when you want to display artefacts together, e.g. for presenting it to others, for showing your progress in a project etc.
Create a portfolio page
You can edit an existing page in two ways:
See also
You find more information on how to edit artefacts on a portfolio page in the Edit content part.
If the site administrator activated clean URLs, your portfolio pages have human-readable URLs which you can change to a certain extend.
Change the URL for your portfolio page
Warning
Though you can change the URL to your page at any point, you shouldn’t do that because people who already know the URL to your page will not be able to access it anymore after you have changed it.
The original, internal Mahara URL, e.g. http://mahara-university.org/view/view.php?id=789 will still work.
You can duplicate your own pages or pages of other users if they allowed you to do that.
Copy a page
Note
The site administrator can decide to leave out “Copy of...” for copied pages or collections. This setting needs to be made in the config.php file. If $cfg->renamecopies = false;, copies of new pages and collections will not have “Copy of” prepended to their titles.
You can view a page to check what it looks like when somebody else sees it. Go to the Pages overview page and click on the title of a page.
An example portfolio page. When you are the author, you can click the Edit button and make changes.
Title of the portfolio page.
Author of the portfolio page.
Description of the page.
The Edit this page button is only visible to you as portfolio author.
The artefacts that you placed in the page.
Tags which you provided for your page.
If you belong to a group which allows the submission of pages for feedback / assessment, you see the group name displayed and can submit your page directly from here. For more information see the section on feedback for assessment.
Comments from users are displayed at the bottom of the page. The comments include:
Your commentators can give a rating in addition to their verbal feedback if the site adminstrator enabled comment ratings.
Your commentators can upload one or more files in addition to their verbal feedback, e.g. a file with inline comments, an audio or video file with feedback.
If a comment is set to “private” by the comment author, you can decide to make it public by clicking the Make public button.
You and the comment author can delete a comment by clicking the Delete button . The comment text is not displayed anymore, but a line is still visible where the old comment was so you know that you deleted a comment. In addition, if you delete the comment by someone else, they will receive a notification about it, which includes their comment text.
The total number of comments is displayed.
You and others can use the Place feedback link to leave comments on the page.
See also
Please refer to the section on giving feedback to see how that can be done.
If a page contains offensive artefacts, users can report them to the administrator by clicking the Report objectionable material link.
Click the Print link to print the page.
Click the Add page to watchlist link if you want to be informed when changes are made to the page.
View how many times your page was accessed.
See also
Please refer to the section on sharing your pages and collections for further information.