Community of Practice gatherings are open to ePortfolio practitioners at IU and other universities who network with our IU Indianapolis ePortfolio programs.
The ePortfolio Studio will host three COPs in the Fall and Spring of the 20204-2025 academic year. These COPs provide targeted support for the 26 faculty participating in the ePortfolio Integration grant, but everyone is welcome.
Fall 2024: SCROLL DOWN TO ACCESS RECORDINGS
1:30-2:30 CEG Recipients Share
Samantha Scribner & Marquita Walker
(12 registered, 14 attended)
10/28/24 10:30-11:30
Maximizing the ePortfolio w/ internationally renown Rhetorician and ePortfolio expert
Kathleen Blake Yancey
12/6/24 11:00-12:00
Assessing ePortfolios
RUBRICS from five ePortfolio Pros
Spring 2025
2/7/25 Not available: Presentations by Lynn Jettpace, Aaron Dusso, Mike Polites, and Kris Schuster.
3/28/25 Available by Request:
email eportfol@iu.edu
5/2/25 INDIVIDUAL RECORDINGS: Jennifer Bute and Carrier Sickman + COP Recording Available by Request:
email eportfol@iu.edu
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As we build the COP schedule, the materials below duplicate entries on the "ePortfolio Basics" Google Site page. Explore the various ePortfolio Basics resources shared during the Summer ePortfolio Grant Workshop, as well as some extra tools to support you and your students as you build your ePortfolios.
Join NACE experts for a practical, one-hour webinar on developing, implementing, and assessing student portfolios and e-portfolios. This session is designed for career services professionals who want to help students effectively showcase their skills, demonstrate career readiness competencies, and prepare for interviews. Presenters will cover the purpose and benefits of portfolios in demonstrating student competencies, strategies for starting and managing portfolio programs efficiently while considering staff bandwidth and institutional structure, and best practices for coaching students to create coherent, competency-focused portfolios. They will also discuss how to evaluate portfolios using a rubric that emphasizes storytelling, flow, and competency evidence rather than artistic creativity, as well as strategies for addressing challenges, including engaging non-creative staff and aligning portfolios with employer expectations. By the end of this session, you’ll leave with actionable strategies to implement portfolio programs that help students present their achievements to both professors and potential employers.
Following this session, you will be able to:
Explain the purpose and benefits of student portfolios.
Apply best practices and rubrics to assess portfolios based on storytelling, flow, and competency evidence.
Address common challenges, including staff engagement, implementation/deployment, and alignment with employer expectations.
Richard Robles, Professor, University of Cincinnati
Ana Rodas, Fine & Applied Arts Admin, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign - The Career Center
Michael Warrell, Sr. Assistant Dir., Marketing & Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign - The Career Center
FEATURED FACULTY in Order of Appearance on the Zoom:
May 1st:
Keely Floyd
Luiz Ricardo-Kabbach
Amy Johnson
May 8th:
Anneka Scott
Dawn Holder
Kevin Yancey
Andrew Findley
Sarah Layden
Sara Bangert
Wendy Vogt
Ian Webb
MAY 2: RECORDING available by request for educational purposes only [email eportfol@iu.edu to request access]
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The Spring 2026 Cohort recorded their ePortfolio integration presentations. You can watch their presentation by clicking on the videos below.
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May 1st, 2026
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May 8th, 2026
FYI for ePORTFOLIO STUDIO RECORDS https://iu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/t/1_uytx377p
FEATURED FACULTY in Order of Appearance on the Zoom:
Audrey Ricke
Trevor Potts
Beth Goering
Carolyn Runge
Rodney Smith
Todd Shelton
Liz Wager
Megan Musgrave
Patricia Turley
Michelle Greene
MAY 2: RECORDING available by request for educational purposes only [email eportfol@iu.edu to request access]
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Jennifer Bute and Carrie Sickman recorded their ePortfolio Grant presentations. You can watch their presentation by clicking on the videos below. Feel free to email Dr. Bute or Dr. Sickman directly with questions and congratulations as they complete their ePortfolio integration projects.
DECEMBER 10, 2025
To honor faculty and student privacy, the Zoom recording is available by request only. Please connact Rachel Swinford at rswinfor@iu.edu to request access to the Kaltura recording.
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The COP Zoom featured presentations by Lynn Jettpace, Aaron Dusso, Mike Polites, and Kris Schuster.
Rachel and Debbie also shared grant management reminders:
1) Please complete the Mid-Grant Progress Report
2) Visit your PARTICIPANT page to see Fall eP Student Survey results; if students named you as their professor, your student results are disaggrigated and posted on your participant page.
3) To see ALL survey links and results from the student survey, visit https://sites.google.com/iu.edu/iuieportfoliograntworkshop/survey-links-responses
If the window above does not play for you, CLICK the IU.Kaltura linke below TO ACCESS RECORDING:
https://iu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/t/1_s8rd94an
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Kathleen Blake Yancey is the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English at Florida State University in the rhetoric and composition program.
Dr. Yancey was Chair, Past Chair, Associate Chair, and Assistant Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (affectionately known as 4Cs) and previous Editor of the premier Rhet/Comp journal College, Composition, and Communication. She also served as Vice President, President Elect, and President of NCTE, the National Council of Teachers of English [2007-2009].
2010 interview in WAC comments on her “irresistible laugh that commands both startled attention and contagious participation . . . Kathi’s modesty insists that many of her contributions have had more to do with luck than intentional planning, the truth is that Kathi’s scholarship matters, along with her formidable contributions as a citizen of higher education.”
In that same interview, Dr. Yancey pointed to the experience that caused her to introduce a portfolio model in her composition courses—a model that has become ubiquitous in composition courses. Dr. Yancey recalled: “I took a course in German for my language for the PhD, and the course grade was determined completely by how well you did on the final test. So in my case, the first test grade I received—an F —didn’t count against me: I got an A on the final and an A for the course. What the professor was interested in, I understood, was how well we performed at the end of the course rather than throughout it, so given that aim, averaging grades was inappropriate.” She introduced this portfolio model in her writing classes, where the grade was informed by student work over time which culminated in a portfolio; the portfolio encompased the majority of the course points in this system. Dr. Yancey helped chart the course for portfolios in composition, for the use of reflection as a key component of assessment, and ePortfolios as a metacognative tool for reflection and assessment which also supports and fosters learning over time.
Created a 1-Credit / 6 week ePortfolio Course to support students as they build professionally facing ePortfolios in the Department of Labor Studies. The course is general in nature and can support students from any major.
Samantha Scribner
Created program-oriented, graduate level ePortfolio programmng to support students as they build professionally facing ePortfolios in the Urban Education Program. She created an Instructional ePortfolio and student template. The Instructional eP supports other faculty members, community mentors [who oversee student internships/practicums], and students.