How to set up your Mahara account!
Hooray - its time to start making use of our Mahara portfolios! Go through the steps below to begin creating your profile and portfolio. Some steps you may already have accomplished.
For instructions on creating your "Breadth" page, look under the How To menu at the top of this page and click on "Mahara: Creating Pages."
- Access your Mahara profile on hcpss.me - click on "ePortfolio" (a green icon down below Canvas/Synergy). Your password is the same as the one you use for all school computers / accounts.
- Request to be Ms. Appel's friend (hover over "Groups" click on "Find Friends" and search for "Appel" - then click on "send friend request.") You can also "friend" other people at River Hill or other Howard County schools; I am pretty sure that all students involved in photo, advanced art, dance, music, and the GT independent research program have Mahara accounts.
- Upload a profile picture - this can be ANY [school appropriate] image! It can be a picture of you, or a picture you've taken, or simply a picture you like. You can use a photo from Facebook or Instagram if you like (you may have to screenshot from Instagram.) (For instructions, look under "Content" and "Profile Picture" - use the instructions on our site to help you: Photo 1 > Mahara > Your Mahara Profile & Profile Picture.)
- Join the "RHHS - Appel - Photo 1 - 2015-2016" group (go to "Groups" click on "Find Groups" and search for "Appel" and find the right group, and then click on "Join Group" )
- Create a "Breadth" page and upload your strongest images you scanned from each roll you shoot
- Make sure to SHARE your page! Edit the page, click on "share page", click the + next to "Friends" then hit "Save"
For instructions on creating your "Breadth" page, look under the How To menu at the top of this page and click on "Mahara: Creating Pages."