ePortfolio items and potential use cases

One group of Brightspace ePortfolio artifacts are module unit/results students can add to their ePortfolio.

Artifacts include:

• Quiz results;
• Assignment results and submissions;
• Grades.

Students can attach reflections to these items and share them with other users.

• Use case - Students use the ePortfolio as a reflective tool. They can add course results and reflect on their progress in a given module/unit, or even over the course of a whole program.

A second group of Brightspace ePortfolio artifacts are any images, documents or files students add to their ePortfolio.

• Use case - Students can use the Brightspace ePortfolio for peer-review exercise. Have students upload a document for peer-review into their Brightspace ePortofolio. Students can then add a rubric to their new ePortfolio item and share it with peers for peer evaluation.

Collections allow students to organise ePortfolio items they might want to share with others in bulk, either automatically or manually.

Collections can be evaluated as a whole using rubrics that you attach to the collection.
 

Use case - Have students use collections to organise their ePortfolio and collect evidence over the course of the semester. Have them share the collection with you rather than individual items to assess a collection of ePortfolio items holistically.

Presentations provide an opportunity to organise and present ePortfolio items in one file that is similar to a webpage. Presenting evidence this way is more visually appealing and easier to evaluate.

Use case - Have students create a presentation or use a presentation you provided to them to showcase their learning by adding artifacts (course results, images, files), ePortfolio reflections or form responses to their presentation.

There are multiple ways that reflections can be used and brought into the ePortfolio.

Students can create reflections from scratch within the Brightspace ePortfolio. These can either be individual ePortfolio items in their own right then, or they can be added to collections or presentations.
When you upload content into your Brightspace module/unit, you always have the option to enable students to reflect on this particular item in the ePortfolio. Students can click on the "Reflect in ePortfolio" button to reflect on this piece of content in the ePortfolio:

Reflect in ePortfolio button
The reflection will contain a tag with the name of the content item students reflected on.

When creating a reflection, students have access to the Brightspace text editor and can record Brightspace Video Notes or embed videos from other webpages as well as insert links, etc.
 

• Use case - Have students keep a reflection journal about the course content they engage with. Students can reflect on content topics and could organise their reflections in a collection or add completed reflections to a presentation.
   
• You could also have students upload a version of an essay for peer-review. After their essay has been peer-reviewed and they have submitted a revised draft to the instructor who graded the essay, students can add the feedback and final submission as well as the first draft with the peer-review to a collection, and reflect on the process of editing their essay with the help of their peers.

Use forms to collect information from students or to give them a more structured reflection or evidence template.

When creating a form, you have the choice between many different types of questions or fields you can add to your form.

When students fill in a form template provided by you, a form response is added to the Brightspace ePortfolio as an artefact. Students can share them with you either automatically or manually, allowing you to comment on them or assess the response.

Students can use and fill in a form template as many times as they need to.

• Use case - You have set an assignment that requires students to collect evidence that they share with you as a collection or in a presentation. You could create a form template that will require students to acknowledge that they have included all the necessary items. Students fill out the form and add the response to their collection or presentation before sharing it with you.