Creating a Portfolio as a part of an Accredited Program

[ldavenport4015]

We are very excited about the Portfolios available with this new feature option. Originally, we were thinking that the Evaluation Portfolio is what we needed just considering the implication by it's name. However we are finding it limited on creation, sharing and development over the life of a program.

Use case: Students are a part of an accredited program that requires evidence of work, improvement, and self assessment as a part of the accreditation of the program. 

Ideas:

• Template for Showcase Portfolio to prompt students to build their portfolio with items across program courses.  This would contain sections for each phase of the program prompting for specific evidence from the courses they will attend. As they move through the courses they are able to add submissions from courses that provide evidence of competency or completion. they would also have sections for professional experience/internship/growth, project evidence, and self reflection/assessment. It doesn't seem that an Evaluation Portfolio can be built for future courses and students lose access to past courses (at our institution) so the Evaluation Portfolio seems more like an assignment across courses, that limits instructors not in all those courses from viewing the work. 
• Allow sharing of student submission by student. The limitation of sharing the actual submission leaves the student with the option of uploading a submission they have either saved in a personal file or a screenshot of the submission from the course. If the submission is in the student's user files in Canvas could they have an option to mark the submission "viewable with the link" or something similar so that they would be viewable from the Portfolio?

Thanks for opening this feature up for use!

[jmerlenbach2]

I would absolutely second this! We have many faculty users who want more structure for their students than the wide open Showcase, but not so rigid as the Evaluation portfolios - I love the template idea! And, the ability to share student submissions out in the links is an absolute must. The behavior of hiding it is a major change from the behavior of the previous ePortfolio solutions, and makes the inclusion of the ability for users to directly incorporate their submissions lack value.

[Dalma_Schnell]

Hi @ldavenport4015 ,

Thanks so much for your detailed feedback and I’m glad to hear you’re excited about the product!

Even if an Evaluation Portfolio is created across multiple courses, adding course assignments as requirements is entirely optional. The courses mainly serve as the means of enrollment. For example, if you build an Evaluation Portfolio that contains projects and other custom portfolio evidence, and require learners to submit assignments as files to a project, you don’t need to worry about the limitation of not being able to add multiple assignments, unless you want to enroll additional learners from new courses. In that case, you can duplicate the Evaluation Portfolio and enroll the new cohort with the different courses.

Do you think building out the Evaluation Portfolio this way, with custom portfolio evidence, could support your scenario?

Regarding sharing of assignments, this is on our radar as an improvement in future iterations.

Really appreciate your input!