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Overview
The D2L Brightspace ePortfolio is a personal portfolio tool for storing, organizing, reflecting on, and sharing items that represent your learning. You can include items such as documents, graphics, audio files, videos, presentations, and course work to demonstrate your improvement or mastery in certain areas.
You can control what items you want to include in your portfolio, how they are organized, and who you want to share them with. When you share items with your peers, mentors, or potential employers, you can give them permission to view items, edit items, review or add comments, and review or add assessments to receive feedback.
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Brightspace ePortfolio overview
Brightspace ePortfolio dashboard
Brightspace ePortfolio is divided into 4 main pages: the Dashboard, the My Items page, the Explore page, and the Sharing Groups page.
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Brightspace ePortfolio Dashboard
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The Dashboard is the main landing page for Brightspace ePortfolio. On the Dashboard page, you can add new content to your Brightspace ePortfolio, review recent activity on your items and items shared with you, and check invites from your peers.
The "What are you learning?" panel prompts you to record brief thoughts about a current learning experience which you can expand upon at a later date. You can also add file artifacts or a link artifact to your Brightspace ePortfolio or associate them with your brief reflection.
When you post an item, it automatically shares with the default sharing group you specify in your Brightspace ePortfolio settings.
The Announcements feed consolidates recent activity on your items and items shared with you. Your items appear in this area if they have been recently edited, commented on, or assessed. If you contribute a comment, an edit, or an assessment to another user's item, that item also appears in the Announcements feed and you can review contributions others are making to it.
Filters at the top of the Announcements feed enables you to search and view specific sets of content: recent activity by ownership, people and items you've subscribed to, and items from contacts in the Instant Messages tool via the Friends List.
The Unread Invites panel displays your recent invites, including the author of the invite, the message content, and the associated Brightspace ePortfolio item.
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My Items
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The My Items page 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. On the My Items page you can:
- Add Brightspace ePortfolio content using the New Presentation, New Collection, and Add buttons.
- Bulk add items to a presentation or collection or bulk associate items with learning objectives using the More Actions button.
- Perform common actions on your Brightspace ePortfolio items, such as view, preview (image and HTML file artifacts only), edit, copy (presentations only), delete, and share.
Your Brightspace ePortfolio items display in a list that you can sort and filter.
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Explore
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The Explore page consolidates items others have shared publicly or privately with you into one view. Shared Brightspace ePortfolio items display in a list that you can sort and filter. On the Explore page you can:
- Browse items.
- Depending on your sharing permissions, view and leave comments and assessments and edit others' items. A feedback activity icon appears beside items when there is comment and assessment activity.
- Click on a user's name to view all content shared from that user.
- Subscribe to an item or a user.
- Use the search field to find content. The search checks for matches within item titles, tags, descriptions, and owner names.
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Sharing Groups
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The Sharing Groups page displays all sharing groups to which you are a member. Use a sharing group to apply and save permissions for different users and groups of users. This allows you to attach the sharing group to new and existing items rather than specifying permissions for each item you create.
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Importing and exporting Brightspace ePortfolio items
Import Brightspace ePortfolio items
You can only import Brightspace ePortfolio packages into your Brightspace ePortfolio. If you have other items you want to add to your Brightspace ePortfolio, you must add them individually.
- On the navigation bar, select ePortfolio.
- On the My Items page, select Go to Import / Export page from the More Actions button.
- Select Import.
- Select Browse. Locate the package you want to import. Select Open.
- Select Next > Import.
Export items in your Brightspace ePortfolio
- On the navigation bar, select ePortfolio.
- On the My Items page, select Go to Import / Export page from the More Actions button.
- Do one of the following:
- To export all items, select Export > All Items.
- To export specific items, select Export > Selected Items. Select Add Items, and then select the items you want to export. Select Add.
- Select Export.
- Select the View progress of the export package link.
- In the Download File dialog that displays, select the link for your exported package.
- Save the file to your desktop.
Import Brightspace ePortfolio into D2L's ePortfolio for life
You can only import your Brightspace ePortfolio package into D2L's ePortfolio for life account. This external account allows you to import content into a free 2GB account, continue to document and reflect on your learning experiences, and continue to create presentations and showcase your accomplishments external to D2L Brightspace.
- On your device, find the downloaded export ePortfolio package you saved.
- In a browser, navigate to D2L's ePortfolio for Life website.
- Log into your account.
- Navigate to Browse Courses and select the MyDesire2Learn course.
- If needed, select Enroll in the course (select the check box to agree to the terms).
- Select Launch Course.
- From the MyDesire2Learn course dashboard, select My Items in the ePortfolio navigation.
- From the More Actions menu, select Go to Import / Export page.
- Select Import.
- Browse for the downloaded export ePortfolio package you saved to your device, and then select Next.
- On the Import preview, select Import.
- Select the View progress of the import package link.
- In the Download File dialog, wait for the 'Your file has been imported" message to display, and then select Close.
- Back on the Import screen, select Done.
- Navigate back to the ePortfolio dashboard to find your imported ePortfolio items.