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Creating a Mahara Group for collaboration. Navigation in Mahara uses tabs. This tutorial shows how to set up a space which is shared by several Mahara users in order to work together to create shared pages or collections for publishing. (1) Setting up the group To create a group, go to the groups tab and click new group. Name the group and select appropriate settings.

Click on the information logo to find out more about the options. Allow all members to create and edit pages.

(2) Adding members to the group If your group is accessed by invitation only, you do this by sending out invitations. Go to the group you have collected (it is now under the groups tab under my groups). Find your colleagues through the search field. If the system cannot find them it is because they have never accessed Mahara. You will need to encourage them to click on the network server link to Mahara from our Languages@Warwick Moodle.

You can invite individuals or send multiple invitations using the link to send an invitation to join the group:

This needs to be done by the person who set up the group, as they are automatically the administrator of the group. Your colleagues then need to respond to this invitation they will get an

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email with a link for accepting and also a message will appear on their Mahara Dashboard in the top right area when they next log in. (3) Creating pages To create a page, you first select the group (Dashboard, Group, <Name of group>, Pages). Now you can create pages which specifically belong to this group.

The first task is to name the page. The description you give is not part of the page content. The details of how to edit pages are the same as for pages owned by an individual. All members of the group can see the pages you create from within the group. They can also edit the page, adding content and rearranging existing content. Creating a collection As yet, you just have pages, and you may want to join several pages together in a collection. To do this, follow the same path as when creating pages, (Dashboard, Group, <name of group>) but now select Collections. The same steps are used for a groups collection as for an individuals collection.

The second step in setting up a collection is to add the pages that you want included in the collection. You are then offered the pages that exist in the group at this stage and you just select them, click add pages and save.

Mahara Group Collaboration

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For now, this means that the pages you collected are buddle together and there is a link to each of those pages in a line above the page on display. All members of the group can see the collection and edit any page in the collection by clicking the edit page link (no need to go back to the separate pages, but editing could be done there too). You can add further group pages to the collection at any time. To do this, find the group collection (Dashboard, Group, <named group>, Collections) and to the right of the named collection, you will see some small icons. Hover over them and select manage pages. Any newly created pages will show and you can select them, clicking add and save. You can also re-order the pages, by using the up and down arrows to the left of the page names in the collection.

(4) Sharing you collection with others There are two possible ways to share your groups pages or collections. You can use the settings available under the share tab:

These are very detailed. You can share content for a limited time period with the public or specific email addresses. Or you can ask Mahara to generate a URL to your collection. There is a secret URL icon to the right. Click it, then click add and a URL will pop up. Just copy the link and share it with others.

Mahara Group Collaboration

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Mahara Group Collaboration

Teresa MacKinnon, July 2013