Important note:

Your profile page is different to a portfolio page.

  • You should never use your profile page to display assessment based work. You cannot control who sees the information you make available on your profile.
  • Profile pages cannot be added as part of a collection to build a portfolio.
  • By default all users with a Mahara account can see your profile page.

Your Profile Page

When you or any Mahara user clicks on your name, your Profile page will be shown.

  • On your profile page you can add information about yourself and you can include the information added within the Content tab i.e. About Me, Content Information etc.

The Content tab

From the Content tab you can add information about yourself which can be made available on your Profile page:

  • About Me - where you can add a Display Name, which replaces your first name and surname for anyone viewing your content. An introduction and information about yourself can be added that will be visable to everyone within Mahara.
  • Contact Information - you can add contact information that can be shared with other people e.g an employer. You can add other email addresses, which may be useful depending on the audience that will be viewing the information. Please consider privacy issues before sharing any contact information.
  • Messaging - In this section you can add account details for various popular messaging systems
  • General - This contains more generic information about you.

Adding a Profile Picture

You can upload up to five profile pictures that you can select depending on the type of audience that will be viewing your information.

  •  It would be a good idea to have a choice of both professional and informal style images.
  • Files can be in any format but must conform to the following size criteria:
    16x16 (ideally square) and 1024x1024 pixels
  • You should use an image editing software before uploading your pictures to reduce the photo’s dimensions to the required ones.