Brightspace ePortfolio is a personal portfolio tool for storing, organizing, reflecting on, and sharing items that represent your learning. You can include items such as documents, graphics, audio files, videos, presentations, and course work to demonstrate your improvement or mastery in certain areas.
You can control what items you want to include in your portfolio, how they are organized, and who you want to share them with. When you share items with your peers, mentors, or potential employers, you can give them permission to view items, edit items, see or add comments, and see or add assessments to receive feedback.
Create a sharing group
You can create sharing groups at the organization and org unit level.
- On the navbar, click Course Admin > Sharing Groups.
- Click New Sharing Group.
- Enter your sharing group's details.
- Click Save and Close.
- On the Sharing Groups page, click on the sharing group you just created.
- Click Show Advanced Sharing Options.
- Do any of the following:
- To allow other users in the current org unit to use the sharing group, select the Current Org Unit check box.
- If you are at the organization level, to allow users in other org units to use the sharing group, click Add Org Units. Select the org units you want to add. Click Insert.
- To automatically share items with the sharing group, select the Automatically share items with this sharing group check box. This setting forces all users (regardless of role) in the course to use this sharing group. Edit your sharing options. If you hide the sharing group, users will not be able to determine which items they are automatically sharing or the permissions other users have.
- Click Save.
- To add users to the sharing group, click Add Users.
- Browse for the users or course offerings you want to add. Click on the users or groups of users you want to add.
- In the Assign Permissions area, select permissions for the sharing group.
- Click Add > Save and Close.
Push Brightspace ePortfolio items to others
You can push artifacts, reflections, presentations, collections, and learning objectives into other users' Brightspace ePortfolios for their own use.
Push functionality enables organizations to provide examples and template Brightspace ePortfolio items for learners. Organizations, administrators, or instructors can customize content in their own Brightspace ePortfolio and then push out the content to courses or sharing groups. This enables you to provide better support, scaffolds, and generic orientation tasks for users.
The system maintains the same item properties during a push process as it does during an export process with the following exceptions: Presentation themes, including those with modified styles, are included in a push; Tags are included in a push; Rubrics associated with an item are included in a push; Rubrics embedded in form artifacts are included in a push; and Comments are not included in a push.
You can review the status of your push processes on the Import/Export ePortfolio Content page in the Pushes to Otherstab. Push processes may take some time to appear in users' portfolios depending on the size of items, number of users receiving those items, and the number of processes in the queue.
- On the navbar, click Brightspace ePortfolio.
- In the My Items area, from the More Actions button, click Go to Import/Export page.
- Click Push.
- If you want to include items connected to the items you are currently pushing, select the Automatically include associated items check box.
- Click Add Items. Select the items you want to add.
- Click Add Next.
- Browse for users, sharing groups, or courses to push the content to. Click on the users, sharing groups, or courses you want to push to.
- Click Push Yes.
Note: Ensure that the item you're pushing is not deleted before the push has completed. Review the status of the Import or Export process before cleaning up your ePortfolio items. Otherwise the recipient may not receive your ePortfolio items.
About learning objectives and Brightspace ePortfolio
Brightspace ePortfolio supports two configurations for facilitating learning objectives: a program-directed approach and an independent, self-directed approach.
In a program-directed approach, instructors and program administrators can push learning objectives (with associated items) into a learner's Brightspace ePortfolio from the organization, department, program, or course offering level. Within this set up, a learner can:
- Share learning objective items with others to generate feedback
- Associate learning objective items with artifacts, reflections, collections, and presentations that demonstrate their learning
- Display learning objectives in presentations
- Create public learning objective-based presentations to seek feedback from those external to the organization
- Delete learning objectives that no longer align with their learning plan
The self-directed approach enables users to select learning objectives from Brightspace to import as items in their Brightspace ePortfolio. This model empowers learners to define their own learning plans in addition to the actions listed above.
Make a competency structure available for Brightspace ePortfolio
- On the navbar, click Competencies.
- Click Settings.
- Do any of the following:
- To make competencies available for Brightspace ePortfolio, select the Competencies check box.
- To make learning objectives available for Brightspace ePortfolio, select the Learning Objectives check box.
- To make orphan learning objectives available for Brightspace ePortfolio, select the Independent Learning Objectives check box.
- Click Save.
- On the Competency Home page, click on the competency you want to make available for Brightspace ePortfolio.
- Do the following:
- Set the status of the competency to Approved.
- Select Make competency and its children visible to users. If you or other users have the Manage Competencies permission, approved competencies appear as learning objectives in Brightspace ePortfolio regardless of whether you select this check box or not.
- Click Save.