Portfolios

Portfolios

Overview

The platform includes a Portfolios feature that can be enabled for learners to store and showcase their work. Portfolios can be utilized in two places:

  1. Course level: Portfolios can be enabled at the course level, allowing learners to upload files and resources to their course portfolio.
  2. Profile level: Each learner can have a single portfolio accessed from their profile that is independent of a particular course and can be organized into folders. A portfolio is just like any other resources area and has the same functionality. 
Please note CYPHER for business defaults to the term courses. CYPHER for academia defaults to the term class. The terms course and class are interchangeable in this article.

Installing the Portfolios app

Administrators can install the Portfolios app. To install the app, administrators:
  1. Click Admin from the primary navigation menu.
  2. Click App center from the fly-out menu.
  3. Install Portfolios from the Sharing section. 

Admin, App center with Portfolios highlighted

Portfolios at a course level

To enable portfolios at a course level:
  1. Access a course or class.
  2. Click Admin from the course navigation menu.
  3. Click Features from the fly-out menu.
  4. Select the Portfolio checkbox.

Course, Admin, Features tab with the Portfolios checkbox selected and highlighted

Once the feature is enabled for a course, learners will see a Portfolios option in the course navigation menu.

As an instructor or teacher, you can access learner portfolios within a course. To access course level portfolios:
  1. Access a course or class.
  2. Click Learners or Students from the course/class navigation menu.
  3. Click on the More icon for a specific learner.
  4. Select Portfolio from the drop-down menu. 
    1. Please note the Portfolio option will only appear if a learner has uploaded a resource to their portfolio.

Course, Learners, More menu active for a specific learner with Portfolio highlighted


Learner Portfolios

As an instructor, you can view learners' profile level portfolios.

To see an individual learner's portfolio:
  1. Access a learner's profile.
  2. Click Portfolio on the learner's navigation menu.

Learner profile with the Portfolio tab highlighted on the secondary navigation menu

The learner's portfolio displays.
  1. If learners add an item to their portfolio from within a particular course (as shown in the image below), a folder for the course is automatically added to their portfolio. 

Learner portfolio with a course folder

To quickly view the resource details for multiple learners' portfolios:

  1. Click Users on the primary navigation menu
  2. Click Learners from the fly-out menu.
  3. Select multiple learners.
  4. Click Portfolio.

Users, Learners tab with two learners selected and the Portfolio button highlighted

The selected users display.
  1. The number of items in each learner's portfolio is shown.
  2. Click the Portfolio icon for a particular learner to view their portfolio.

    Two learners portfolio details with the Portfolio icon highlighted for one learner

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