You just added a text box to your profile page.

A section on your View is called a block, and you've just learned how to add a new text box by clicking and dragging it onto your profile page. Blocks are what Mahara uses to personalize your profile page and your Views. You can add and delete blocks, and move them around. There are actually quite a variety of blocks, and the Mahara developers are keen to keep adding to the list. We have started here with a basic text box, as it's probably the one you will use most frequently. In Chapter 4 we will be exploring what we can do with the other blocks that are already available.

One of the things you probably noticed when adding text to your text box was that you have a number of editing options available. Janet would like to make her text look more interesting, so let's revisit our text box and look at what these options do.

You will probably find that you have already used most of the options in the text editor when working in word processing programs. Let’s have a quick look at some of the most commonly used options.

Now let's try formatting some of the text you have just entered.