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 student ePortfolios 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. Click Sharing Groups.
3. Click New Sharing Group.
4. Enter your sharing group's details.
5. Click Save and Close.
6. On the Sharing Groups page, click on the sharing group you just created.
7. Click 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 checkbox.
   • 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. Click Save.
10. To add users to the sharing group, click Add Users.
11. Browse for the users or course offerings you want to add. Click on the users or groups of users you want to add.
12. In the Assign Permissions area, select permissions for the sharing group.
13. Click Add > Save and Close.

Push Brightspace ePortfolio items to others

You can push artifacts, reflections, presentations, collections, and learning objectives into other users' 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 orientation tasks for users.

The system maintains the same item properties during a push process as it does during an export process with the following 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 Pushes to Others tab. Push processes may take some time to appear in users' portfolios depending on the size of items, number of users receiving those items, and the number of processes in the queue.

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