SGS ePortfolio Pilot

An ePortfolio is a purposeful collection of information and digital artifacts that demonstrates development or evidences learning outcomes, skills or competencies.

Cotterill s. J. What is an eportfolio? Eportfolios 2007, maastricht

Accessing ePortfolio

onq.queensu.caLog in with NetId and Password

Speaking to your Strengths with an ePortfolio

ePortfolio Terminology

• Dashboard• Artifacts• Reflections• Collections• Themes• Presentations

ePortfolio Dashboard

The Dashboard is the main landing page for onQ ePortfolio. On the Dashboard page, you can add new content to your onQ ePortfolio.

ePortfolio My Items

My Items consolidates all of your artifacts, reflections, presentations, collections, and learning objectives into a single view, enabling you to view, search, and manage all of your content from one location.

From the My Items page you can:• Add ePortfolio content by clicking the New or Upload buttons• Bulk add items to a presentation or collection

Perform common actions on your ePortfolio items, such as • View and Preview (image and HTML file artifacts only)• Edit and Copy (presentations only)• Delete, and Share

Your ePortfolio items display in a list that you can sort by name or date modified, ascending or descending. Filters at the top of the list enable you to search and manage specific sets of content; you can filter by item type or sharing status.

ePortfolio Artifacts

Artifacts are any electronic resource you choose to collect, reflect upon, share and / or present in the ePortfolio that demonstrates your learning.

An artifact can be research papers, videos, photos, PowerPoint presentations, or any other form of digital media.

You add artifacts as independent files to the “My Items” area and then organize artifacts into collections and presentations. You can also share artifacts with others.

To add an artifact go to My Items and +Add• Reflection• Link• File Upload• Web Document

ePortfolio Reflections

A reflection is a critical analysis of the significance of the artifacts

ePortfolio written reflections require critical thinking about what artifacts mean, what expertise was gained from creating those artifacts, and how the artifacts are connected. A reflection allows you to think about your learning.

A reflection can be created as an independent file (i.e., an artifact) or it can be a comment that you associate with another artifact, collection, or presentation.

ePortfolio Reflections

A reflection is a text file that you create in ePortfolio to reflect on course content.

A reflection can be created as an independent file, or it can be a comment that you associate with another artifact, collection, or presentation.

To add a reflection

Add your reflection here

ePortfolio Collections

Collections are kind of like folders of items: they are groups of Artifacts, Reflections, and/or Presentations that you can create and use for organizing your ePortfolio items. Collections can be organized by course, research topic, case studies, etc.

An item can belong to multiple collections at the same time.

A collection can be shared with others.

There are multiple ways to add items to a collection:

• Add items manually on the Edit Collection page• Add multiple items at once by clicking Add to Collection from the More Action

button• Select the Add to Collection option from the context menu of an item

ePortfolio Tags

Tags are key words you associate with an ePortfolio item to help categorize them (e.g., course codes, subjects, topics, purpose, status, etc.)

To add a new tag, enter the word or phrase in the New Tags field and click Add Tag.You can search for items with specific tags.

Use quotes " to create multi-word tags, e.g., “active learning”.

A private tag can be created by typing an @ symbol in front of the tag e.g., @draft.

ePortfolio Presentations

A presentation is a professional looking, customizable, and private web project that you can use to organize and/or showcase your work. An ePortfolio can contain multiple presentations targeted at different audiences.

ePortfolio Themes

Themes are default style templates that give your presentations a consistent look and feel. Themes are comprised of styles which control one aspect of the design. For example, there are separate styles that control the look of titles, links, dates, and images.

myDesire2Learn.com

What is myDesire2Learn?

• Desire2Learn hosted ePortfolio service for students who are graduating from their school and would like to retain and continue to use their ePortfolio after graduation.

• Students can export their ePortfolio to myDesire2Learn and continue to collect artifacts, create presentations and share their evidence of achievement with others.

• This is a free service offered by Desire2Learn.

• Individuals are provided 2GB of storage space.

myDesire2Learn.com

Steps to create a myDesire2Learn.com ePortfolio

1. To create your EduDentity Account that will give you access to myDesire2Learn:https://www.mydesire2learn.com/d2l/ed/createaccount

2. Log in to myDesire2Learn.com to activate your account

3. Export your ePortfolio from onQ

4. Import onQ ePortfolio into myDesire2Learn.com

Export ePortfolio

To export the ePortfolio:

1. Select the presentation you wish to export2. Click on the context menu black arrow (to the right of the presentation name)3. Click Export

Export ePortfolio

4. Select Export presentation to an ePortfolio package5. Click on the checkmark to Automatically include

associated items6. Click Next

7. Click on the file name to download the zip file

Import ePortfolio

1. Log in to myDesire2Learn.com2. Click on My Items 3. Click on More Action4. Select Go to Import / Export page

Contact Information

For assistance during the pilot:

Selina IdlasonQ Educational Support

613 533 6000 x 74496Selina.idlas@queensu.ca

@SelinaIdlas