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An electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) is a purposeful collection of student work, lessons, imagery and multimedia. It showcases students’ learning progression, achievements, and highlights what they can achieve.
Almost every day, teachers share specific lessons with your students: as homework, as revision material, or in preparation for tests. Developing ePortfolios enables you to help students to get organised by taking their learning and their future into their own hands.
Want to know more? Check out this example of a student-led portfolio.
With an ePortfolio, students can reflect on what they learned, how they learned it, and how much they learned. An excellent description is offered by Paulson, Paulson and Meyer, who write: “a portfolio is a laboratory where students construct meaning from their accumulated experience”.
An ePortfolio represents the perfect conversation starter during student-led conferences. Students can show and explain their study or career choices to their parents or caregivers, guiding them through their decisions with targeted examples. It empowers students to take charge of their future.
It is nice to have both words and visuals in a portfolio. In LessonUp you can do so by adding photo questions. Your students could upload screenshots of their assignments, examples of their work and exercises as interactive slides. Furthermore, you could add some polls to showcase your students’ opinion on relevant topics.
Pictures, videos and audio recordings can also be part of it, if relevant. Once created, share the portfolio with your students through your class, and via your lesson modules. By doing so, you make sure that you and your students always have access to it, and can easily customise it & add slides to it if needed.
To find out how LessonUp’s ePortfolios could help your school and to request a free demo, visit their EdTech Impact profile .
Updated on: 31 January 2024