Supporting information for the Creating and using Mahara templates workshop.

1. 2014 Eportfolio Forum Workshops
Creating and using Mahara Templates
Program for Wednesday 1 October 2014
When? What? How?
9.30 am Welcome ● Introduction
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● Where are you from?
● How are you using Mahara now?
● Session overview
9.50 am Eportfolios Templates
Examples
● Why use templates?
● Template Examples – Mahara Eportfolio Template Examples
● http://bit.ly/MaharaEpfsEgs
● Investigate 2-3 – discuss - what you think the key features
are?
● Getting into Digital Capability Mahara -
http://digitalcapability.com.au/
● Giving-out logins
● Practice One
○ Username: practice1
○ Password: practice1
○ Email: p1@p1
● Copying a template
 Project/Work-based Title (Aust School Teacher Prof Standards
Template)
 Practice editing – critiquing about how you think your
students would manage this
10.15 am Creating Eportfolio
Templates
● How to create Mahara templates
● Start with a Picture of Competence
● Deconstruct and determine how to recreate using Mahara
● Provide instructions in a different colour
● Demonstrate using an example from someone
11.00 am Morning Tea
11.30 am Create your own
template
● Using practice account
● create own template
● share with others
● critique
● make improvements
● Sharing/permissions

2. 12.15 pm Exporting and
importing
templates
● Export your template
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● (Create fake user > copy template to this user)
● Export
● Leap2A
● All of my data
● Save
● Importing your template
● Need Admin rights or ask Administrator to do it
● Add User
● Upload Leap 2A file & Create User Account
● Go to page
● Edit
● Share this page
● Site admin (or a group or everyone)
12.30 pm Finish