myportfolio
myportfolio is an electronic portfolio application built especially for schools. Electronic portfolios extend the traditional paper-based portfolio concept to allow digital work and achievements to be organised and presented to different audiences for different purposes. When integrated into the curriculum, they can be used by students to create, collate and publish material and by teachers to demonstrate their students' work, skill development, and progression towards achievement of learning outcomes.
Fully integrated with mydesktop and myclasses, myportfolio provides everything students and teachers need to create personal electronic portfolios with no need for web authoring skills or costly image-creation software.
Features include:
- A library of over 250 royalty-free clip art images that can be simply dragged and dropped into a portfolio page
- A search facility to enable the discovery of relevant web pages for students and teachers to link to
- An easy to use image creation and editing application
- The ability to publish selected pages, or even a whole portfolio, to a class or the school
- An export feature allowing students to take their work with them in their transition from junior to senior school
- Quick creation of templates by teachers for students to work from
- Manage student portfolios, by individual or group
- View earlier versions of a student's page
- Choose either automatic or manual approval of student pages for publication
- Teachers can comment on student work, and attach relevant curriculum outcome statements
Benefits include:
- Enhanced and time-saving communication
- Building on existing skills (by using similar format and graphics as many word processors such as Microsoft Word)
- Cost-effective (requires no additional hardware or software at the school level in order for users to edit portfolio pages)
- Efficient and effective for I.T. administrators (who don't have to worry about disk space management)
- Relevance and engaging creativity (allowing students to explore their creativity in a safe environment that has proven pedagogical merit)