This content was part of our Early Adopter Program and may not reflect the current experience. We're keeping it available to provide historical context and highlight how the feature has evolved.
Welcome to the Early Adopter Program (EAP) for the new ePortfolio experience! Before you dive into testing, here’s everything you need to know to set up and explore the tool effectively.
Step 1: Access Your Canvas Beta Environment
The Portfolio Early Adopter Program (EAP) is available only in your institution’s Canvas Beta environment.
If your institution has multiple Canvas instances, please reach out to your Canvas admin to confirm which one is active for testing. Only your admin can identify the correct beta instance and provide access if needed.
Once inside the Beta environment, you’ll see “Portfolio Beta” appear in the main Canvas navigation menu on the left.
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Click Portfolio Beta
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When prompted, enter the access password: PortEAP_2025
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Once authorized, you’ll be able to start exploring the Portfolio tool!
🔐 Reminder: This is a closed beta, available only to participating institutions. You’re welcome to explore the tool internally or invite a select group of learners to participate and provide feedback.
🧪 What You Can Test
The EAP supports two distinct portfolio experiences — both available now:
1. Evaluation Portfolios (Institution-led)
This use case allows you to simulate course- or program-based portfolio assignments with structured guidance and feedback.
To test:
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Create or use an existing Canvas course in your beta environment.
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Add users with the “Teacher” role to simulate educator access.
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Make sure to enroll learners and publish the course and the assignments within.
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Use the Portfolio tool to create a new Evaluation Portfolio based on the courses you created and assign requirements, track progress, review evidence, and give feedback within the tool.
Note: Learners added later to the course than publishing the Portfolio will not receive the Portfolio as an assigned task.
To see how learners interact with the portfolio tools, you’ll need to simulate the student perspective:
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Log in as the student you enrolled to the course(s) you used in your Evaluation Portfolio to explore the full learner experience.
As a test learner, you can:
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Submit evidence to Evaluation Portfolios based on assigned requirements
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View and respond to educator feedback directly within the portfolio
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Track progress against portfolio requirements to see what’s complete and what’s still needed
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View awarded badges and collected skills as they’re earned through portfolio submissions
👥 Tip: Some institutions choose to test with staff first, while others bring in actual learners — it's completely up to you.
❗️NOTE:
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Learners do not need to be added to every course to participate in a portfolio; however, they will only see assignments and evidence requirements from the courses to which they have been added.
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If learners are added to a course after the portfolio has been published, they will not see the assigned portfolio.
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Once a portfolio is published, you cannot add additional requirements or learners to that portfolio.
2. Learner Experience (learner owned)
To test how learners build their own showcase portfolios:
🔄 Keep in Mind
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The features are live but still evolving — you may notice bugs or minor UI changes.
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Your testing and feedback will help us improve the experience ahead of general availability.
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You can test Evaluation Portfolios, Showcase Portfolios, or both — depending on your goals.
