Originally published July 16, 2020
What is it?
A centralized Portfolio experience where educators can view and navigate through students and evidence from the same page.
Why are we doing this?
We’ve heard your feedback! You’ve asked us to make Portfolio easier to navigate, especially switching between students and evidence - and we didn’t stop there. These improvements include a single page to view all students and evidence, compact cards, and even (spoiler alert) LISTS! But wait! There’s more! We are also adding navigational tools such as searching, filtering, and sorting.
Centralized Navigation: Sneak Peek
We wanted to give you a sneak peak of the designs we are using for our upcoming releases so that you have an idea of where we are headed this fall. The future Portfolio will allow you to easily move from viewing students to evidence to evidence by student in a card view or list view. After that, we will be adding navigational tools to help you narrow down your views using filters, search, and sorting.
Note: the images in future release sections below are design mock-ups not actual product images.
Releases
20.20.07
In July, we introduced compact cards for students and courses. By reducing the size of the card and condensing how the information is presented, you can see more cards at a time and the whole Portfolio has a cleaner look and feel.
Student Compact Cards
Figure: Student card - before.
Figure: Student card - after.
Course Compact Cards
Figure: Course card - before.
Figure: Course card - after.
New Student List view
You can now switch between the card-based view of students and a new list view. At a glance, you can easily find Unapproved Evidence from more students at once. Choose between these two view options to find out which one suits you and your work flows best.
Figure: View all Students in the new list view.
20.20.08
In August, we will extend the compact card style to evidence cards providing a single, consistent card view across Portfolio.
Note: These are design concepts and not images from the product.
Evidence Compact cards
Figure: Evidence card – before.
Figure: Evidence card - after.
20.20.10
In October, you can now view all evidence, within a course, for all students from the centralized Portfolio. Easily switch between viewing all students or all evidence within your course
Note: These are design concepts and not images from the product.
Student Card View
Figure: View all Students (card view).
View all Evidence
Below is a sneak peek of all evidence across students within a course. We are adding a simple toggle between viewing students or evidence with a consistent card or list view design.
Figure: View all evidence (card view).
Figure: View all evidence (list view).
20.20.11
In November, building on the October release we are adding filtering to the Evidence view. This will allow instructors to more easily find all evidence for a specific category, Brightspace Portfolio includes new category filtering options from the Evidence view. Categories are often used by instructors to organize work submitted by learners or they can be required areas of study. Instructors can also filter all evidence shared with parents or all spotlighted evidence.
Note: these are design concepts and not images from the product.
Figure: Evidence filtering options.
Coming Soon
Next up we will be adding a student selector to view evidence by student within the instructor centralized Portfolio. Then use the evidence filters to narrow down to find specific evidence for your student.
FAQs
How do these updates impact ePortfolio?
We are building out Portfolio to support ease of use and better workflows for the eventual replacement of ePortfolio. This work is just one part of the Portfolio roadmap plan. Together with all Brightspace core functionality, Portfolio will provide a complete solution to not only replace ePortfolio but to enhance the entire experience. To find out more feel free to reach out to your Customer Success Team or Technical Account Manager.
What is the transition plan for ePortfolio to Portfolio?
The transition plan is not finalized and more details will be communicated to ePortfolio clients as a part of this transition.
