ePortfolio - Faculty Support
Digication is the leading provider of ePortfolio and assessment management systems. Digication develops its platform with students, faculty and programs and institutions needs in mind.
Best Practices for Instructors
Explain the benefits of ePortfolios to students
Portfolios can: help learners develop new or deeper learning, which results in higher grades; help learners develop a better sense of themselves as students and as individuals; be shared with friends and family members; and showcase learners’ achievements when they are applying for a job.
Establish clear expectations
Explain to your students what you expect them to do in their ePortfolios. Learners may have difficulty understanding the need for them to reflect on their work and the need for them to make connections between different courses and experiences.
Provide numerous examples of successful ePortfolios created by students
Direct students to examples of effective ePortfolios created by Waterloo students or this ePortfolio by Knowledge Integration student Danielle Cruz that features “course skills spotlights” and more.
Scaffold student learning
Help students start small: ask them to choose just one artifact (such as an essay) and have them reflect on the challenges they had to address as they wrote their essay or have them select two assignments from different courses, and reflect on how each of those assignments helped them to better understand the other assignment.
