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What is ePortfolio?

Mack Faviola

An e-portfolio is an evolving electronic/online resource that records, stores, and archives artifacts of learning and reflection for an individual learner.

An ePortfolio has the potential to demonstrate professional and personal growth, exemplify evidence-based practice, and provide a space for planning for future professional development needs and experiences.

What can ePortfolio be used for?

Integrated evidence-based learning and assessment

  • The ePortfolio system facilitates the holistic integration of individual assessment items into learning outcomes, learning objectives and/or graduate attributes associated with any overall program;
  • Initial assessment mapping identifies opportunities to move student learning and development from developing to proficient (or similar) throughout the degree, using carefully crafted rubrics designed to reflect program outcomes;
  • Assessment elements are aligned to program outcomes through linked rubrics. These rubrics can be shared across schools and disciplines;
  • Students are assigned assessment activities that they must complete in a practical setting. Reflective learning tasks, short or long-term case studies, or evidence of attempts to achieve competence in practical tasks are some examples. Students can upload documents and multimedia, or they can enter text directly into online forms, text editors, surveys, and journals, depending on course and program requirements;
  • Instructors can easily evaluate and grade submitted work using a number of feedback mechanisms, including document markup, voice recording, rubrics, general comments, and in-line commenting;
  • Course instructors and authorized school staff can generate reports to analyze assessment data, result sets, rubrics, and students at a given time and over time;
  • Course instructors can view the external supervisor’s review of completed/attempted assignments in practical classes.