My Portfolio

What is e portfolio?

An academic ePortfolio is a digital collection created by a student of their course-related work, like essays, posters, photographs, videos, and artwork; academic ePortfolios can also capture other aspects of a student's life, such as volunteer experiences, employment history, extracurricular activities, and more.

Student showcase portfolio

  • The personal portfolio area is private to the student, and cannot be viewed by others until the student actively allows sharing or access to an individual portfolio in part or in whole;

  • The student's personal portfolio area functions like a webpage template, where students can add menu links, text, media and images, as well as apply any of the available style templates;

  • Students can create multiple types of portfolios, for example: academic learning, creative presentation, personal development, reflective and practical learning, collaborative projects, teamwork activities;

  • These can be used to showcase work and experience for employment applications, professional registration, career advancement, research awards/grants;

  • Students can save evidence and exemplar work into their own personal portfolio area;

  • Students can submit a personal portfolio in part or in whole as an assessment item within a course or program;

  • Students can share a personal portfolio in part or in whole to an external party using a secure link or LinkedIn, or share any personal portfolio in part or in whole with colleagues for feedback and review;

  • Students can add any item to any portfolio within their personal area, including uploading from Dropbox and personal drives;

  • Students maintain a personal file area as a repository of artefacts which can be added to any type of portfolio, including video/audio files, photos, documents, PDF, free text;

  • Course instructors/program coordinators can provide templates to the students which scaffold portfolio pages for accreditation requirements etc;

  • Students retain access to their portfolio for up to four years after leaving UQ.


Student academic use of ePortfolio

  • Students can submit assessment from within the ePortfolio which demonstrates competency against learning outcomes, learning objectives, and/or graduate attributes;

  • Student receive feedback from within the ePortfolio on submitted assessment items, and on progression towards competency against learning outcomes, learning objectives, and/or graduate attributes;

  • The ePortfolio can allow students to demonstrate learning through reflection, discussion and assessment activities and provision of evidence for summative assessment;

  • Students can review and reflect on learning progression over time, throughout a program, or across multiple programs;

  • Students can develop skills in reflection on experience and activity;

Validation of activity by external assessors/preceptors/supervisors

  • External supervisors can provide constructive feedback to the students and to the school using the ePortfolio. External supervisors can be pre-added to the system, or added “on-the-fly” by the students as required;

  • Students submit directly to their supervisor, who receives an email with a secure link directly to that student’s submitted work – there is no login required. The supervisor then provides the feedback (rubric, comment etc) and submits the results which are returned to the course instructor for review.