Uploading Files - Mahara
One of the pages in your Professional Digital
Portfolio (PDP), requires trainees to upload
documents (‘Completed Tasks’). This short tutorial
shows how you can do this.
1. Start by clicking on the Portfolio link from the
Dashboard page, (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Portfolio link
2. From the list of pages find and click on the page
called ‘Completed Tasks’, (Figure 2).
Figure 2: Completed Tasks link
3. Unlike your other pages, this page does not
have any predefined blocks, so we will need to
create our own blocks so we can populate them
with the various tasks that you will be
completing during your PGCE year.
Start by clicking on the grey ‘Edit this page’
button located in the top-right of this page,
(Figure 3). This will enable us to start editing
this page.
Figure 3: Edit this page button
4. Let us start by defining the layout of the page.
Click on the Edit layout tab, (Figure 4).
Figure 4: Edit layout tab
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5. We are going to choose the simple, two-column
(50-50) layout (Figure 5). You can always repeat
the preceding steps and change the layout
later.
Click on the green Save button to save your
selection.
Figure 5: 50-50 layout
6. You have now returned to the Edit content
view again. You cannot see the two columns
you asked for yet. Click on the Text box button,
(keep your finger pressed on the mouse button)
from the list of items you can insert on the left
of the preview area and drag it to the preview
area, (Figure 6).
Figure 6: Dragging a Text Box
As you do that you will notice that the two
columns you requested are there on the page,
waiting for you to drag content into them.
7. You are now presented with the Configure
panel of the text box that you have just
inserted, (Figure 7). Insert the following
information:
 Block Title: My first document
 Block Content: This is the first
document that I have uploaded. I just
have to remember to delete this block
when I am finished.
Figure 7: Inserting text
Note the various text-editing tools you can use
to format your text
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8. Scroll down to bottom part of this screen and
click on the box next to Upload file, and click on
the grey Choose Files button, (Figure 8).
Select a Word document to upload. If you do
not have one, create one called HELLO that just
says Hello World in big letters.
Figure 8: Upload a file
9. Scroll down to the bottom of this Configure
panel. Click on both of the check boxes
Retractable & Automatically retract, (Figure 9).
This will enable the user to collapse the panel, if
they wish to hide the content.
It also helps to cut down on the user having to
scroll too much to get to text boxes further
down the page.
Figure 9: Collapsible panels
Click on the green Save button to return to the
original edit screen
10. You will notice once you have returned to the
main Edit screen that you now have your first
text box, in the left column. You can click on
the Gear cog, (Figure 10) to return to the text
box configure panel if you need to modify the
title or description that you just inserted.
The garbage icon lets you delete this text box.
Once you have confirmed the delete, all of the
content will be gone, so please be careful.
Figure 10: Configure & Delete the text box
11. To view what the actual page looks like click on
the Display page tab, (Figure 11).
Figure 11: Display page
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12. Because we opted for retractable panels, you
will need to click on the chevron on the right of
the panel to unhide the contents and the
paperclip to enable you to download the
document that you uploaded, (Figure 12).
Figure 12: ‘Un-hiding’ the contents
Repeat the process to upload a PowerPoint
presentation into the second column, but this
time do not click the Automatic Retract option
(step 9). Look at the difference. Which of the
two options is best for the person reading this
page?
Remember to delete all of the panels that you
have created during this tutorial, (Step 10).
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