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ePortfolios

A flexible space to collect, record and reflect - Clearly capture achievements and progress, to share A personal electronic portfolio for students and staff - Make it your place for collecting together digital content that represents your work, development and capabilities.
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Affordances

  • Multimedia evidence of learning and development
  • Facilitate periodic reflection on work and progress
  • Allow students some individuality and creativity
  • Track and evidence personal ahievments and development

Mahara

Mahara is a personal electronic portfolio available to all students (and staff) at the University of Warwick. To find out more about using ePortfolios and get support using it to enhance your teaching, explore our Mahara specific guides and recipes.

  • Create a portfolio to continually capture professional and personal development
  • Moodle integration allows use of Mahara progress tracking and for assessment
  • Build and share multimedia to evidence learning journey
  • Capture achievements and progress towards learning goals
  • Identify any gaps or weaknesses to develop further
  • Share evidence of skills and capabilities, including a CV builder
  • Control what, and who you share content with
  • Track and share and submit project progression and reflection
  • Use templates to shape activities and guide students

Padlet

A versatile - and very easy to use - platform for interactive and collaborative activities. It allows students to post comments, questions, and resources on a shared digital wall, facilitating real-time and asynchronous engagement. Padlet can be used as an ePortfolio due to its affordances to:

  1. Organize Work: Create sections for different subjects or projects; Add any number of items from online text, documents, images, video.
  2. Sharing and Feedback: Can be shared with others; comments and reactions can be added for peer review.
  3. Customize Appearance: Personalise with backgrounds and layouts to suit a student's style.

Miro

A highly featured collaborative digital whiteboard where students and teachers can interact in real-time or asynchronously.

  1. Visual Organization: Miro’s infinite canvas allows users to visually organise their work. You can create different sections for various projects, subjects, or skills, using sticky notes, images, and diagrams to make the content engaging and easy to navigate.

  2. Collaboration and Feedback: Miro supports real-time collaboration, enabling users to invite peers, mentors, or teachers to view and comment on their ePortfolio. This feature is great for receiving feedback and making the portfolio a collaborative space.

  3. Customization: Miro offers various templates and customisation options to personalise an ePortfolio.

OneNote

OneNote, available as part of the O365 suite of software, can be used as an ePortfolio. As with the other tools above, it enables:

  1. Organisation of content: Create sections and pages to categorize different subjects or projects.
  2. Collaboration and feedback: Share notebooks with peers or teachers for comments and reviews.
  3. Customisation: Personalize with templates and multimedia to make the portfolio engaging.

Get started with our guides

Mahara

Padlet

Miro

OneNote