Folioz Orientation
Folioz is a SSHRC funded research platform and is powered by Mahara. Mahara is provided freely as open source software (under the GNU General Public License).
What makes Folioz different from other ePortfolio systems is that you control which items and what information (Artefacts) within your portfolio other users see.
Introduction
What is Folioz?
If you’re wondering what Folioz or an ePortfolio is, why you might want one and what it can do fo...
Folioz framework
Folioz is built with Mahara, an open source e-portfolio application. With Folioz, you control ...
Accessibility
Folioz aims to be usable by as many individuals as possible, including those with disabilities or...
Implementation: key principles for success
The exemplars within this toolkit were judged to meet the five key principles for successful e-po...
Navigation
Your Dashboard
Overview You can change certain aspects of your dashboard, namely the user-specific information,...
Main menu navigation
The main menu is visible to all users and allows everyone to navigate to their content, portfolio...
User menu navigation
The user menu is visible to all users. It allows you to access your account settings, inbox, and ...
User-specific information
The default dashboard includes the following blocks: Latest changes I can view My portfolios ...
Your profile page
Your profile page is not visible to other users on Folioz by default except for those in the same...
Pages
What are Pages?
A page contains a selection of artefacts which you arrange and present to others. These may inclu...
Your Overview Page
On the landing page of Portfolio, you can do the following. The landing page of your p...
Add a page
You add a new page in your portfolio when you want to display artefacts together, e.g. for presen...
Editing a Page
Navigation bar You can add and remove content from a portfolio page on the Edit page screen. Th...
Edit an existing page
You can edit an existing page in two ways: Click the Edit button when you are on the Page...
View a page
You can view a page to check what it looks like when somebody else sees it. Go to the Pages and c...
Deleting a page
You can delete a portfolio at any time unless it has been submitted for feedback. When you delet...
Files
Managing Files
Main menu → Create → Files The Files area is a repository, i.e. a document storage for folders...
File browser
In the Files area you have a file browser in which you can organise your files so you can find th...
Upload a file
Before you upload a file, make sure that you are allowed to do so. For any artefacts that you pub...
Upload multiple files
You can upload multiple files at once in three different ways: You can upload multiple f...
Edit a file or folder
You can edit the properties of a file or folder at any time. The file does not have to be re-link...
Rotate an image
When you upload images directly from a mobile device, the orientation may not be correct, and a l...
File quota
The default file storage quota size is 50 megabytes. If arrangements have been made with your ins...
Blocks
Blocks for internal and external artefacts are used to compose portfolio pages and group pages. ...
Content chooser
All different types of content as well as blocks that pull in external content into a portfolio p...
Files, images and video
These artefacts are internal Folioz ones to display: links to files that you have uploaded fo...
Journals
You can embed content from your journals in various ways in a page: display an entire journal ...
General
The artefacts in this tab are of a general nature or do not fit into any other category and can b...
Personal info
The artefact blocks in this tab allow you to include information that you provided in the profile...
External content
With the help of the external content blocks, you can include RSS feeds, external media or Google...
Blocks in various pages
Certain blocks can only exist in certain page contexts. For example, the wall can only be placed ...
Collections
Collections allow you to organize your portfolio into multiple pages so as to find individual sec...
Add a collection
If you want to organize your portfolio into multiple pages so as to find individual sections more...
Add pages to a collection
In the next step after you have created your collection, you choose which portfolio pages you wis...
Manage pages in a collection
Once you have added your pages to your collection. You can move them around or remove them. ...
Deleting a collection
When you delete a collection, the pages and artefacts within it are not deleted. If you want to ...
Sharing your ePortfolio
When you have created portfolio pages (and collections), you may wish to share them with others, ...
Share Overview
You can set the access permissions on the Edit access page. It is accessible via Portfolio → Shar...
Edit access to your profile page
Your profile page is restricted to only members of your institution by default. Other users who ...
Edit access for users with an account
Basic settings The Edit access page allows you to set the permissions for a single user or multi...
Edit access for users without an account
Besides giving users who have a login or the entire public access to your portfolio, you can also...
Privacy
Nothing is public by default. Your profile page, which you can leave empty, is only viewable to t...
Skins
You can create skins yourself, edit them, use other people’s skins, and use them on your portfoli...
SmartEvidence
SmartEvidence allows you to work with competency frameworks in Folioz and associate them automati...
Troubleshooting
Password reset links don't work
If you see an error message about the reset link you get in your email not being valid it could b...
I need to reset my password
There are two different account types in Folioz and resetting your password depends on the type o...
Notification of full file storage
If you have received a notification that your file storage is near full you might want to review ...
Institutions
Glossary
The glossary has two parts. Every user encounters the basic terms in Folioz. The advanced terms a...
Updates
August 2019 Update
Page header update The page header area was revamped to allow for a full-width page header when ...
May 2020 Updates
Placeholder block When you create a page, you do not have to decide on the block type from the s...
Sept 2020 Updates
Users are now people The language on the site has changed away from ‘users’ in English because o...
May 2022 Updates
Institution support administrator role People providing support for an institution, e.g. helpdes...
Change Logs
A more technical breakdown of fixes and features found in updates to Folioz.