General account options
Setup the way your ePortfolio operates by configuring your account
Friends control
Choose whether other users may add you to their friends list. If you are added to a friend’s list, the owner of that list is added to your list as well. When you remove someone from your friends list, you are also removed from their list. Options:
- Nobody may add me as a friend: no one may add you to their list.
- New friends require my authorisation: your authorisation is needed for you to be added to a list. If you approve, they will be added to your list.
- New friends are automatically authorised: anyone may add you to their list.
HTML editor
An HTML editor is available for some sections of the site. This is known as a 'What you see is what you get' (WYSIWYG) editor. This allows you to apply formatting to your text, e.g. bold or italics, or embed graphics in your webpage. Note: HTML editors may appear and work slightly differently in some browsers.
Default licence
Use this setting to indicate the default licence for content you create or upload to the site. You will be able to override this on each piece of content as you create or upload it.
Note: The default licence for any content is standard copyright, but you may choose a different default licence for your content. If you are not sure which default licence to choose, please check with your organisation as it may require you to use a specific licence.
If in doubt which would be the best default licence, you can ask the lawyer at your organisation or consult a copyright lawyer.
If you are a member in multiple institutions and choose "Use institution default", you will not be able to select the institution whose license you want to make the default one. One will be chosen by the system.
Disable email
Use this setting to stop notifications being sent to you via emails.
Messages from other users
Use this setting to choose who you wish to receive messages from. Use the activity preferences area to decide how you will receive these messages. Note: These restrictions will not apply to administrators or staff. Options:
- Do not allow anyone to send me messages
- Allow people on my friends list to send me messages
- Allow anyone to send me messages
Show controls to add and remove columns when editing a page
You can choose to display a row with the buttons and in the page editor. These buttons add and remove columns from that page when you click on them. Even if not enabled, you can change the number of columns for your page in the page layout.
Multiple journals
By default this option is turned on, so you can have more than one journal. If you would like only one journal turn this option off.
Maximum tags in cloud
Maximum number of tags to display in your tag cloud. Default is 20.
Maximum number of groups to display
Maximum number of groups to display in your "My groups" list in the sidebar. Leave blank to show all your groups.
Sort groups
- A to Z by default
- Earliest joined
- Most recently joined
Dashboard information
Display information about how to use LEO Portfolio on the dashboard.
Show information about this site on the dashboard
If you ticked the checkbox, information about this site and what can be done with it will be displayed on your dashboard.
Mobile upload token
Enter a token for each of your mobile devices in a separate field. You can get a new field by clicking on the [+]. Enter one token each then on your mobile devices to enable uploads on them.
If you have any problems, reset the problematic token on Mahara and on the mobile device where it does not work.
Note: Tokens must be at least 6 characters long. They are changed automatically after each upload here and on the mobile device through which you uploaded content.
Resize large images on upload
"Automatic resizing of images" is enabled by default. Images larger than the maximum dimensions will be resized when they are uploaded. You can disable this default setting for each image upload individually.
When you have made your choices click ‘save’ at the bottom of the page to make these changes.
