What you need to add to your e-portfolio
What you need to add to your e-portfolio
An e-portfolio is for students to upload and record their progress, what they learned, created, and achieved. It’s a great way of keeping a record of development for students to keep after they finish the course. Follow this student guide to build a clear, organized, and professional e-portfolio.
1. Getting prepared
You are required to have a Google account to create your own Google Website.
2. Go to Google Sites
Log in to your Google Account and open any Google service such as Gmail, Google Drive, or Google Drive. You will see the menu button with 9 dots on the top right corner. Find “Sites” from the menu to access Google Sites. If you cannot find “Sites” there, keep scrolling the menu and click “More from Google”. There is a section called “Google Products” at the bottom part of the page. Change the filter to “for all”, then you should be able to find “Sites”. Otherwise, you could simply type in https://sites.google.com
3. Create your Google Site
On the top part of Google Sites, you will see a section “Start a new site”. Click “Blank site” to create your Google Site.
4. Make a Cover Page
The very first page you see after creating a blank site can be used as the cover page of your website. It is basically to introduce yourself to visitors. You may set the title of your website, write your short introduction, and add some pictures of yourself.
5. Create Subpages
For better organization, make an individual subheading per semester or class. You will see the editing menu on the right part of your page. Go to the “Pages” tab, click the 3 dots button on “Home”, then choose “Add subpage” to create a subpage.
For example, if you would like to organize your works by semester, you could make
Spring Semester
Fall Semester
Study Abroad Report
Then, describe what you focused on, and add your tasks, materials, video and reflections.
6. What you could include in your subheadings
a. At the beginning of each subpage, you could simply add a “Textbox” in the “Insert” tab, and include a brief explanation of what you did, your activities, assignments, and progress.
b. Teachers also provide students with some useful materials that they can showcase on their website. For example, you could share a link to your Quizlet study set with your students, and they can add a “Button” in the “Insert” tab to put a quick link that jumps to the flashcard.
c. Assignments (All the files are in your Google Drive). Students can showcase the assignments. For example:
Vocabulary or terminology activities
Writing tasks
Nursing tasks
Pronunciation activities
Presentations
Group projects
Practical role-play simulation videos
Case study summaries and Google Slides
Reflection tasks
※ You could add "Table of contents" as one way to organize your subpage. It can create a link that quickly jumps to any part of your subpage. "Table of contents" is in the "Insert" tab. Once you create it, the initial message says "Add Headings and they will appear in your table of contents". You simply highlight any text (or select the textbox) in your page and change the text style from "Normal text" to "Heading", and the link to the place will be generated in the table of contents.
7. Share Setting
This page is your own private webpage to organize materials you have created. To keep it private, you need to change your sharing setting.
Click the “Share with others” button on the top right (a button that looks like a human with a “+” mark on its right).
In the “General access” section,
a. Set “Restricted” for Draft
b. Set “Restricted” for Published site
8. How to save your settings
You need to press “Publish” if you want to save your changes. You may press “Review changes and publish” to see how your page changes from your previous setting to your latest one before you publish.
9. Share your website/e-portfolio with someone
Your website is private so no one can see your page. If you would like to share your page with others, such as with your teachers and classmates, click the button that says “Copy published site link” on top of the page (The button that looks like a paper clip).