ePortfolio for Instructors in D2L Brightspace

Overview

D2L Brightspace ePortfolio is a personal portfolio tool for storing, organizing, reflecting on, and sharing items that represent your student's learning. Your students can include items such as documents, graphics, audio files, videos, presentations, and course work to demonstrate their improvement or mastery in certain areas. Learn more about ePortfolio for students in D2L Brightspace.

As an instructor, you can enable ePortfolio sharing in your course, and even push items from your ePortfolio to your students ePortfolios. 

Share ePortfolio items in courses

Create a sharing group

You can create sharing groups in your course.

1. Navigate to the Course Admin screen.
2. Select Sharing Groups.
3. Select New Sharing Group.
4. Enter your sharing group's details.
5. Select Save and Close.
6. On the Sharing Groups page, select the sharing group you just created.
7. Select Show Advanced Sharing Options.
8. Do any of the following:
   • To allow other users in the current course to use the sharing group, select the Current Org Unit check box.
   • To automatically share items with the sharing group, select the Automatically share items with this sharing group check box. This setting forces all users (regardless of role) in the course to use this sharing group. Edit your sharing options. If you hide the sharing group, users will not be able to determine which items they are automatically sharing or the permissions other users have.
9. Select Save.
10. To add users to the sharing group, select Add Users.
11. Browse for the users or course offerings you want to add. Select the users or groups of users you want to add.
12. In the Assign Permissions area, select permissions for the sharing group.
13. Select Add > Save and Close.

Push Brightspace ePortfolio items to student ePortfolios

You can push artifacts, reflections, presentations, collections, and learning objectives into your students Brightspace ePortfolios for their own use.

Push functionality enables instructors to provide examples and template Brightspace ePortfolio items for students. Instructors can customize content in their own Brightspace ePortfolio and then push out the content to courses or sharing groups. This enables you to provide better support, scaffolds, and generic tasks for student.

The same item properties are maintained during a push process as it does during an export process with these exceptions: Presentation themes, including those with modified styles, are included in a push; Tags are included in a push; Rubrics associated with an item are included in a push; Rubrics embedded in form artifacts are included in a push; and Comments are not included in a push.

You can review the status of your push processes on the Import/Export ePortfolio Content page in the Push to Others tab. Push processes may take some time to appear in their portfolios depending on the size of items, number of individuals receiving those items, and the number of processes in the queue.

1. From the course or the my home navigation bar, select ePortfolio.
2. In the My Items area, select Go to Import/Export page from the More Actions button.
3. Select Push.
4. If you want to include items connected to the items you are currently pushing, select the Automatically include associated items check box.
5. Select Add Items.
6. Select the items you want to add.
7. Select Add > Next.
8. Browse for users, sharing groups, or courses to push the content to. Select the users, sharing groups, or courses you want to push to.
9. Select Push > Yes.

Note: Ensure that the item you're pushing is not deleted before the push has completed. Review the status of the Import/Export process before cleaning up your ePortfolio items otherwise the recipient may not receive your ePortfolio items.