Managing your portfolio
Managing a portfolio involves more than collecting evidence and showcasing achievements.
It is also important to maintain accurate records, share content appropriately, and help to ensure your portfolio remains a safe and professional space.
This guide will cover key tasks including creating and saving snapshots of your work with the Timeline feature, how to export part or all of a portfolio and removing objectionable content.
In this guide:
Using the Timeline feature
Portfolios often show progress over time. However, what did a particular portfolio page look like at the start of the development process, a month ago or two days ago? The timeline makes those changes over time visible and allows the viewer to go back in time and look at an old version of the portfolio page and track how the page has developed.
Changes and updated versions are not saved to the timeline automatically so as not to overload it with tiny changes in rapid succession. You can decide when you want to save a version of your portfolio to your timeline.
Saving a snapshot to the Timeline
- On the dashboard, select Create. Select the page you want to create a Timeline for.
- On the far right of the page, select the to open the options and select Save to Timeline.
View a snapshot on the Timeline
- On the dashboard, select Create. Select the page you want to create a Timeline for.
- On the far right of the page, select the to open the options and select Timeline to open a visual representation of all the snapshots taken for this page.
- Click on one of the dots on the line to view that version of the portfolio
- If there are a lot of entries, filter by date
- If the entries extend over a long period, scroll left and right using the arrows.
Visit the Mahara manual for further information and guidance on Timelines.
Export all or part of a portfolio
You can export your portfolio to keep your files and Mahara created content offline. Exports can be created at any time, as often as you wish.
Exports contain both HTML and Leap2A exports from Mahara 20.04 onwards. Click on your name in the top right of the dashboard to open the dropdown menu and choose Export content. Users can export:
- All your data - every artefact and portfolio stored in your account
- Some of your pages - choose which pages and artefacts contained within them you want to export
- Some of your collections - choose which collections and artefacts contained within them you want to export.
The Mahara manual has step-by-step guidance on how to export and the options available.
Report and remove objectionable content
You can report content as objectionable when you think it is:
- Offensive
- Inappropriate
- Or otherwise violates the terms and conditions of the site
Individual content items, e.g. files, journal entries, and notes, can be reported as objectionable, as can entire pages.
- On the item that you want to report as objectionable, select the More options button
- Select the item Report objectionable material. A modal window appears on the page.
- Complaint: In the text field, provide information why you think the content is objectionable and should be removed or changed.
- Select the Notify administrator button to send a notification to the administrators for review.
You can find full guidance on reporting content, managing and reviewing objectional material as an administrator in the Mahara manual.