New studentfolio is here!

studentfolio has been successfully upgraded to the latest version of the software and in now available.

What’s new!

You will notice that the web address has changed to https://folio.brighton.ac.uk  and we have dropped the word ‘student’. All of your existing web links to pages on the site that use the old address ‘https://studentfolio.brighton.ac.uk’ will still work.

A dedicated University of Brighton theme with a clean and simple design to let your published portfolio pages speak for themselves.

New clearer icons and buttons throughout the site.

The Content chooser has been re-designed to make it simpler and easier to add content blocks onto a page you are building. mahara-content_chooser

Column and row layout options for pages allow you customise the layout in different ways and offers greater flexibility for page designs.

Drag and drop file upload for easier multiple file uploads.

Embed PDF’s into pages.

When adding a text box on to a page you can now attach a file with it.

We will be updating the user guides and support materials in the coming weeks.

Watch out for news on the new feature called skins, it’s not presently available on the site. We are presently testing this feature out and will let you know more soon.