Portflow
Tell Your Learning Story
Portflow is your student-owned portfolio where you organize evidence of your learning, share your progress, and prove your achievements, all in one place.
The first time you log in, the link below may not work. If it doesn’t, click Portflow ePortfolio in the Brightspace navigation menu and authorise access.
How It Works
Four simple steps to build your portfolio
- 📋 Plan: Build and Organise
- ✍️ Learn: Collect, Share, Engage with Evidence & Feedback
- 📊 Track: Monitor Growth and Progress
- 🎯 Prove: Assessment, Showcasing
Plan: Build and Organise
In Portflow, you can structure and organise your work using Collections, Sections, Goals, and Activities.
Collections are used to represent a learning contexts (e.g. courses, modules, projects, or internships). Collections appear on the Portfolio home page & can be organised using Sections.
Read more: 📄 Collections & Activities
Within Collections, Activities tell the story of the learning journey of the student in that context; both for planned and past learning experiences.
Read more: 📄 Collections & Activities
Goals provide the secondary independent perspective on the learning journey and represent anything the learner is working towards (e.g. learning outcomes, objectives, competencies, skills, or attributes).
Read more: 📄 Goals & Sub-Goals
Using Templates, these components can be scaffolded to help learners structure (parts of) their Portfolio.
Read more: 📄 Templates
Evidence can be uploaded and created directly to Portflow. Submitted assignments in Brightspace can also be included as Evidence, including the authentic feedback and rubrics from the assignment. In addition, files can be uploaded and URLs to external materials or videos can be added directly to the portfolio. Evidence can also be created in Portflow with Free text that can be scaffolded using Snippets.
Read more: 📄 Snippets (Evidence templates and Feedback templates)
Evidence can be linked to multiple Collections and Goals. In addition, it is possible to add descriptions and reflections to a Collection or individual pieces of Evidence.
Read more: 📄 About Evidence & 'My Evidence'
Share access and collect Feedback
Learners can share access to their Portfolio, Collection(s), or Evidence with any other Brightspace User and External User. Invitees can contribute insights to the Portfolio through Feedback or Progress Reviews.
Read more: 📄 Share your Portfolio and 📄 Request and Provide Feedback
Learners can track progress and growth in various visualisations and aggregated overviews and analyses of received Feedback.
Read more: 📄 Insight in Progress
The learner can make a curated selection from their development Portfolio in a Snapshot: a locked/frozen, copied version of the portfolio. This Snapshot can be used for (summative) assessment or showcasing purposes. It can be submitted in an Brightspace assignment for assessment and grading. The Snapshot can also be used for showcasing purposes (e.g. public access, job/internship applications). While the learner continues working in their live development Portfolio, the Snapshot remains a frozen in time selection of their Portfolio.
Read more: 📄 Create a Snapshot (Freeze a Portfolio)
