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Intended Audience

WSU instructors currently using Brightspace and interested in using electronic portfolios in their Brightspace courses.

Overview

According to D2L:

Brightspace ePortfolio is a personal portfolio tool for storing, organizing, reflecting on, and sharing items that represent your learning. You can include items such as documents, graphics, audio files, videos, presentations, and course work to demonstrate your improvement or mastery in certain areas.
You can control what items you want to include in your portfolio, how they are organized, and who you want to share them with. When you share items with your peers, mentors, or potential employers, you can give them permission to view items, edit items, see or add comments, and see or add assessments to receive feedback.

Not only is the ePortfolio a storage place for artifacts, but it is a good place to reflect on experiences and create a showcase for assessment during their school years as well as a tool for seeking employment after graduation.

It should be noted that D2L supplies a means for exporting and publishing the portfolio to a web site the curator can publish and keep in perpetuity.

Uses for the ePortfolio

Electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) are repositories for teaching and learning artifacts and personal reflections. ePortfolios can be used to assess student work in a specific course, examine overall student success in a given program, document skills for prospective employers, and collect artifacts toward the professor's professional development. The sections below look in more detail at how the eportfolio can be used as a documentation tool.

Lynda.com has additional information on using eportfolios for authentic assessment and measuring growth.

Student learning

The ability of eportfolio technology to add a longitudinal dimension to learning—revisiting artifacts over weeks or months or years—invites learners to see connections among their learning situations and to therefore see patterns and find meaning. Eportfolio technology, when guided by the underlying concepts of high-impact practices (or in support of high-impact practices), and when built upon relevant learning theory and educational research, can energize or catalyze students’ emerging learning ecology.

Field Guide to ePortfolio, pp. 3-4

Examples of student eportfolios can be found on the Catalyst for Learning website. The examples are good, but not all of the examples are still live, so you may get a few "Page not found" errors.

Program assessment

Graduate employment

Professional development

Examples of professional development can be found at

How the Brightspace ePortfolio tool works

eProtfolio is different from other Brightspace tools in that it is not restricted to a single course. The ePortfolio tool will display on the Brightspace homepage as well as every course that uses the default navigation bar. (If you are using custom navigation in your course and the ePortfolio tool is not showing, you will either have to update your navbar to include ePortfolio or contact TLT for assistance.)

Each Brightspace user has a single ePortfolio storage area within Brightspace and all occurrences of the ePortfolio tool, whether on the Brightspace homepage or a course homepage, access the same ePortfolio content.

Users add, edit, and curate their ePortfolios within Brightspace but at times, like student graduation or program articulation, there may be a reason to export the ePortfolio and save it to myDesire2Learn, an external site supported by D2L. Any ePortfolio exported from Brightspace and made public through myDesire2Learn will be available for life. For information on exporting and importing Brightspace eProtfolios, refer to the following D2L Help articles:

Navigate Brightspace ePortfolio

If you would like more information on how the Brightspace ePortfolio tool can be used to create and curate electronic portfolios, refer to Using the ePortfolio tool.

More Information

D2L Overview Topics

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More resources

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-Examples of student eportfolios can be found on the [http://c2l.mcnrc.org/student-eportfolio-sample Catalyst for Learning website].
+Examples of student eportfolios can be found on the [http://c2l.mcnrc.org/student-eportfolio-sample Catalyst for Learning website]. The examples are good, but not all of the examples are still live, so you may get a few "Page not found" errors.
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