How to manage and organise your files in
your Professional Digital Portfolio
As you move forward and add more content to your Professional Digital Portfolio, you will be adding a
variety of files into the portfolio rather than typing in content directly. This note provides advice on best
practices for managing the inclusion of files into your portfolio. The basic file uploading process is as
follows:
1. As described in the Uploading Files – Mahara note,
start by clicking on the Content link from your
Dashboard page
Figure 1: Portfolio link
2. Now click on the Files option from the menu under
the main Content link. This will show the page as in
Figure 2. On this page make sure that you have
ticked the Upload file checkbox. Now click on the
Choose Files button. This will let you navigate to a
file you want to upload from your computer using
the normal Windows Explorer. Highlight the file and
then click the Open button and your file will be
loaded into your portfolio. As an alternative to the
Choose Files dialogue, you may drag and drop a file
from your Windows Explorer directly onto the Drop
files area of the screen
Figure 2: Files upload page
Organising the Files in Your Portfolio
As you upload more files into your portfolio, the list you see can become unmanageable. In addition, a flat
list does not allow you to see what a particular file relates to easily. Enter … folders!
3. You may find it easier to create a separate folder
for each of your Collections. You can do this on the
main file upload page but instead of using Choose
Files drop further down the screen and type a name
for the new folder and click on the Create folder
button and the new folder will appear in the list
below.
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Author: CPE - TEL Team
4. To move an uploaded file into a folder, simply move
your mouse cursor above the file icon (to the left of
the filename). The appearance of the cursor will
change to the 4-pointed star icon. At this point, leftclick the mouse (and keep the left hand mouse
button held down), then drag the mouse cursor
over the folder you wish to move the file to and let
go of the mouse. The file will be moved into that
folder.
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Version: 1.0 - 2015/16
Author: CPE - TEL Team