How to create a Collection of Pages in your eportfolio When sharing any aspect of your eportfolio, please limit sharing your pages to Specific Friends, Specific Groups, Specific People, or to a Secret URL. Do not allow Public Access to any page, or allow access to Logged-In Users unless you intend for those pages to be widely available and able to be reproduced. Academic staff sometimes choose this option for demonstration purposes, but students should consider their privacy before sharing widely with the Public or Logged in Users. In your USQ Mahara eportfolio, you can create Pages that contain the artefacts (also known as assets) you have uploaded. These Pages can be arranged and presented in any order within a Collection. A Collection is like a mini-website (or a mini-eportfolio) within your eportfolio. You can also make a copy of your collection. Create a Collection Copy a collection Create a Collection As with Pages, you can have as many Collections as you want. 1. In this tutorial, we are going to make three pages (Page 1, Page 2 and Page 3) into a Collection. Learning Systems and Support (LTQ) 1
2. To start making your Collection, go to the Collections sub-tab: 3. As you can see there are no collections yet: 4. Click on the New collection button: Learning Systems and Support (LTQ) 2
5. Here you will Edit title and description, by adding in the Collection Name* and optionally a Collection description. You can also select whether or not you want a Page navigation bar (a tabbed menu at the top) for your pages. In this example, the Collection description is being left blank: On the bottom, click on the Next: Edit collection pages button. 6. Select which pages you want to add into your Collection by ticking the selection boxes next to them. Then click on the Add pages button: 7. Learning Systems and Support (LTQ) 3
8. You will receive a message saying Pages added to collection. Collection updated to include access from new pages along with a green tick. Here you can rearrange the order in which the pages appear by using the small up ( ) or down ( ) arrows to reorder your pages. You can also remove pages from you collection: When finished, click on the Done button. 9. You will see that there is now one Collection. To go to your collection, click on the title of your Collection it is also a link and will take you straight to the first page of your Collection: Learning Systems and Support (LTQ) 4
10. As you can see the navigation tabs are in the correct order: If all of your pages are in collections, they will not turn up as individual pages in the Share tab of the Portfolio tab. In other words, if a page is within a collection, you cannot share that page individually unless you create a new standalone version of that page, i.e. copy that page. Learning Systems and Support (LTQ) 5
Copy a collection If you copy one of your own collections, the process will replicate each and every page that is in the parent collection you are intending to copy. In other words, you will end up with two of every page. 1. To copy a collection, while you are in the Collections sub-tab of Portfolio, click on the Copy a collection button: 2. Search by page name or by owner name. Here the name of one of the pages has been searched for (click on the Search button): Learning Systems and Support (LTQ) 6
3. The search result will appear. To copy the Collection, click on the Copy collection button: 4. You will receive a message stating Copied X pages, X blocks and X artefacts from My Adventures along with a green tick. You can change the copied Collection name here. For the sake of this tutorial, however, we are going to leave it: Learning Systems and Support (LTQ) 7
5. Click on the Next: Edit collection pages button. Here you can add or delete pages from your newly copied collection. Click on the Done button: 6. You now have two Collections: 7. When you go back to Portfolio > Pages, you can see that copies have been made of the original pages: Learning Systems and Support (LTQ) 8