DEE Team

Bb Portfolios

Portfolio Example

http://go.fiu.edu/portfolio

Portfolios Tool in Bb

• Released right before Fall 2014• Everyone has access to the Portfolios tab

• released globally to all roles

What are Portfolios?

• A medium for users to collect and organize artifacts representative of work completed over time.

• Portfolio authors present their information in a cohesive, personalized format.

Where can we find Portfolios?

• The Portfolios tab is the launching point for viewing, creating, and reviewing portfolios.

• Access the Portfolios Tab from anywhere in Bb OR the global navigation menu > Tools > Portfolios.

Portfolios Tab

• My Portfolios• My Artifacts• Shared with Me

Portfolios Tab

• My Portfolios• create, edit, delete, view comments, download and

share portfolios • My Artifacts

• upload personal artifacts, add course artifacts• Artifacts can be text, video, submitted course

assignments • Shared with Me

• see portfolios shared to your username, discover public portfolios

Portfolio Section Breakdown

• Header: repeats on every page. • Navigator (left menu): Portfolio has at least 1 Page

and by default each page has at least 1 section. You can have multiple sections per page.

• Page Sections: Inserts a Section in Place• A portfolio section contains a section title, optional

instructions, an artifact zone, and an area for reflection.

• Footer: repeats on every page.

HEADER

FOOTER

NAVIGATOR

SECTION

Artifacts

• Course artifacts:• are graded content from your course and remain

available to you even if you no longer have access to your course.

• Personal artifacts:• are any content—text, files, links and multimedia

assets—you create/upload.

Artifacts (2 ways of adding them)

1. From the ‘My Artifacts’ panel

2. From the ‘Add Artifact’ button when editing portfolios

Layout and Colors

Under the ‘Preview and Customize’ options, you can choose between 4 different layouts 16 different color options

Portfolio Assignment Dropbox

Assessments > Assignments > Submission Details > Portfolio Assignments > Choose Template if you wish

Student View - Submitting a Portfolio

Student View - Submitting a Portfolio

Shared with Me

• Users can directly share portfolio snapshots with you for feedback.

• You can also discover portfolio snapshots shared indirectly to you if the author decided to share with a role you belong to or if the author shared it with everyone.

Sharing Portfolios

Faculty will only be able to see student portfolios after they have attached it to a portfolio assignment OR students have shared it

Share a Snapshot of Portfolio

• When sharing a portfolio, you are sharing a ‘snapshot’ of that portfolio

• If changes are made after sharing the snapshot, the snapshot will have to be re-shared to see the latest version• External Users: non FIU member• Courses• Organizations• Institution Roles: ‘All Students’ • All System Roles: available under

Discover

Finding Portfolios

• Go to ‘Shared with Me’ and then click on ‘Discover Portfolios’

Discover Portfolios

Portfolio Templates

• Only system administrators can create Portfolio Templates...

• If a professor wants to create their own:• Open an LMS Case and they will help you set it up

Generic Portfolio Template

• The DEE Team has developed a very basic, generic template with some embedded instructions

• It’s available in Blackboard now

Portfolio Homepages & Course Portfolios

• If you want to link directly to the Portfolios tab:• Content Area > Tools > More

Tools > Portfolios Homepage• If you want the students to see

the portfolios shared with that COURSE:• Content Area > Tools > More

Tools > Portfolios

Portfolio Instructions Video for Students

• The DEE Team has posted a video with instructions for students.

• Feel free to embed this video when using Portfolios.

• Search for it on Knowledge Center

Things to Remember

• They’re designed to live OUTSIDE the course so students can keep using them for other courses

• Once an assignment has been graded, the student can choose to attach that graded item to their portfolio.

• they can choose to attach the assignment, the feedback, the grade

Best Practices

• Encourage faculty to use Portfolios if the students will be able to use it for other courses, past the current course’s end date

• If not, perhaps another assignment tool might be best

• Use the template. A well-designed template with embedded instruction guides the student and reduces confusion

Ideas on how to use Portfolios

• Progression: Use Portfolios so students can compare and see how their work gets better over the span of the course • Example: Engineering Drawing (intro to AutoCAD) • Have the students upload their initial drawings

during the first few weeks of the semester and then compare it to their final

• Online Resume• Examples of their best work

Questions on Portfolios

• Talk to anyone on the DEE Team (deeteam@fiu.edu)• Open an LMS Case or call them (x4309)