Desire2Learn ePortfolio

ePortfolio: The Big Picture

Store• Convenience• Lost, never again

Reflect• Powerful learning element• Significantly under recognized

Share• Internal + External• Dynamic + Fresh

Feedback• ‘Process’ and ‘product’• Exert control• Be specific

Artifacts

Foundation of ePortfolio• ‘Entry point’ for all electronic

documents• MS Office documents, PDF,

images, media files, etc• Learning Environment objects

(Quizzes, Dropbox submissions, Grades, etc)

• Date/time stamp

Collections

Keep it together• Organized, you are• Simple sharing• ‘Auto-add’

Presentations

‘Portal’• Easy access to variety of material

• Product or process

• All-in-one toolStore + share + get feedback

• Up to date to the world• Forms for progress checks

Evolving uses• Job search, professional/personal

development, presentations, collaboration, feedback

• Instructors, students, business, personal

Forms

Forms = Fabulous• Define what you want (It’s all

about you ;)• Completed forms become

artifacts• Fight human nature• Yourself and others• Copy cat

Reflections

Personal recordings• Success, challenges, thoughts,

etc• It’s the law?• Addictive behavior• We’re only human• *Untapped resource for learning

Comments

Running commentary• Get some• More people are willing than it

seems• *Tap into peers, collective thinking• All sorts

• Presentations (*Product vs process)

• Collections• *Even Reflections

Tagging

Profusely

Copiously

Liberally

Permissions Profiles

Who and what• Who can view (group or individual); What they can see

• Organization or individual• Specific or broad

• Easy application• Pre-fab• Default profiles• Forced profiles (Admin)

• Permissions for individual items• RSS notification

Import/Export

New and delightful• Enhances new ePortfolio roll-

outs• Pre-fab Presentations,

Collections, Artifacts• Backup, and paving way for

future hosting options