Do students loose access to their ePortfolio when they graduate and lose access to Canvas?

[heather_monti]

We are considering using "Folio" within our Canvas instance, the ePortfolio built by Portfolium.  When our students graduate, they lose access to Canvas. Does this mean they will lose access to the Folio (ePortfolio) they built while they were at our institution?  

Thanks for any guidance!

[NoahBoswell]

Hi @heather_monti !

If your students lose access to their accounts after they graduate, they will lose their access to their account portfolios as well.

However, students do, at least should, have permission to download their portfolio contents to a zip file on their computer, and you will probably need to extract these files after they are downloaded as .zip files.

So in simple terms, yes they will lose access.

Reach out with any questions or concerns, hope this helps you!

Noah

[Chris_Hofer]

@NoahBoswell ...

I'm not sure that's entirely true.  I was a Canvas administrator in higher education for many years at a Technical College in Wisconsin.  After I left that position, I still (to this day) have access to my Portfolium profile and everything that I had added to it...though I do not log in through that school's Canvas URL any more.  I can still log in to my Portfolium account by going to:

http://www.portfolium.com

Once on that page (which re-directs to Instructure.com, by the way), I click on the "Log In" button at the top right corner of their page, and I select "Student ePortfolio".  I'm able to log in to the Portfolium interface and see all of my information.

Hope this might be of help to you and @heather_monti.

[cstrikwerda · Accepted solution]

@heather_monti 

Thank you for posting in the Community!

Thanks so much for @Chris_Hofer and @NoahBoswell for answering this question as both are correct.

After graduation, a students profile at portfolium.com will still exist and will not be deleted.

If a student were to lose access to their email associated to their account, they would lose the ability to update the password and if they forgot the password, this could stop them from being able to access.

To avoid this, we suggest students add an additional personal email to their account just in case they lose access to their student/ institutional email address. This would allow them to access the account and update the password in the case of their email being disabled. 

This would be done on their account at portfolium.com

Here is a reference for that as well: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Student-ePortfolios/How-do-I-edit-my-email-address-in-Canv...

This is the same for the Canvas Credentials product, which we recommend adding additional emails to the account in question to give another avenue to update the password and login.

Hope this helps and thanks everyone in this thread for being a great part of the Community!