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About Portfolio
Brightspace Portfolio is a tool that empowers students of all ages to independently capture evidence of learning. Students can maintain their digital portfolio year after year, as they progress through their learning journey. With Brightspace Portfolio, you can: * Create student-centered digital portfolios * Use…
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Ideas for using Brightspace Portfolio in K-12 organizations
K-8 organizations For K-8 organizations, the following are some ideas on how to use Brightspace Portfolio to capture evidence of learning: * Gardening/Science – monitoring a green space and tracking growth. * Scavenger Hunts – numeracy and literacy, finding things in groups of a certain number, finding certain shapes in…
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Filter classlists by section
In some cases, teachers have very large courses with many learners, instructors, and teaching assistants, and use sections to split the course into manageable lists. To filter by section, you must have permissions and access to view the sections in the course. If there are sections in a classlist, the students are…
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Define Portfolio class settings
In Brightspace, the Portfolio tool provides class settings for student avatars and evidence approval. Figure: Click Settings in the Portfolio tool. Student avatars You can turn on a setting that displays Funster avatars instead of learner profile photos. This avatar setting only applies to the teacher view of the students…
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Review and assess submitted Portfolio evidence
From the main page in the Portfolio tool, the centralized navigation allows you to easily switch between viewing all student portfolios in a course or all evidence in a course. The main Portfolio page also includes the option to view the information in a tile or list format, visual indicators to clearly identify newly…
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Use Passcards
Passcards are unique identifiers used by the Brightspace Portfolio app on a shared classroom or shared family device. Students can use the same passcard in all the classrooms that are using the Portfolio tool. QR codes in student passcards contain login information (including first name, last name, and user authorization…
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Set up the Brightspace Portfolio app
The Brightspace Portfolio app is available for download from any global Google Play™ store or Apple App Store®. The Brightspace Portfolio app allows students to collect evidence, and then teachers and students can log in to Brightspace from a browser and use the Brightspace Portfolio tool to manage the evidence. While…
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Perform bulk actions on evidence
From the Approve Evidence page in the Portfolio tool, you can perform bulk actions on multiple pieces of evidence for several learners. For all the unapproved pieces of evidence, you can categorize all evidence, share all evidence with parents, and approve all evidence. To perform bulk action on evidence Log in to…
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Share evidence with parents or guardians
You can share a student's evidence with parents or guardians by sending a weekly email digest about shared content in their child’s portfolio. To receive a weekly email digest, parents or guardians must have an account in Brightspace Parent & Guardian. If you attempt to share content and there is no student association…
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Manage evidence
As a teacher, you can collect evidences using the Brightspace Portfolio app, add evidences to a student's portfolio on their behalf, approve and archive evidences. Collect evidences Students can use the Brightspace Portfolio app on a classroom device to collect images of their best work, and record an audio reflection…