Laura Lohman, Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence, Queens University of Charlotte https://my.queens.edu/cafe/SitePages/Home.aspx

USING PORTFOLIUM ASSIGNMENTS

When to Use a Portfolium Assignment Portfolium expands the choices you have when creating a course assignment. Here are some situations when setting up a Portfolium assignment in MyCourses could be a good choice, or perhaps a better choice than an Assignment, Journal, or discussion Forum in MyCourses, or a hyperlink to another tool, such as Flipgrid:

If what you want students to do. . .

For example. . . How would that work?

Supports the Yes/And Initiative and/or Pathway (the latter is being phased in beginning with first-year students).

Your assignment relates to one of the 5 Yes/And attributes: • Honorable Engagement • Agile Thinking • Civic Mindedness • Professional Adeptness • Global Mindedness

You create a Portfolium assignment in MyCourses and grade it. Meanwhile, students’ submitted work will also reside in their Portfolios in Portfolium. Within Portfolium, a student can connect the work they did in your class with the Yes/And Pathway by explaining how their learning and effort illustrates a Yes/And attribute(s).

Supports your academic program’s plan to have students revisit work done over multiple semesters and reflect on it for a particular purpose.

Seniors are asked to revisit major assignments completed earlier in the academic program; reflect on their work; and articulate their growth to date, identify next areas for growth, or articulate how their understanding changed.

You create a Portfolium assignment in MyCourses and grade it. Meanwhile, students’ submitted work will also reside in their Portfolios in Portfolium. Later, the students can see their major work from previous semesters in Portfolium, regardless of the status of the older MyCourses course sites.

Illustrates skills or competencies that are broadly applicable and valued by employers

You have an assignment in which students demonstrate their skills in areas such as: • Communication (written, oral,

multimedia) • Problem-solving • Data analysis • Teamwork • Leadership • And other transferable skills

You create a Portfolium assignment in MyCourses and ask students to select their best work from your course that illustrates a specific skill. You could also ask them to explain their use of the skill (e.g., why they choose that work, how their use of the skill impacted the result). Grade their submission from MyCourses. Meanwhile, students’ submitted work will also reside in their Portfolios in Portfolium, where they can share it with their network and prospective employers.

Illustrates significant discipline-specific skills in creating something, with or without a substantial accompanying narrative

You have a major assignment in which students demonstrate skill(s) essential to your course, such as creating a sculpture. They could submit their work product (e.g., a video of the sculpture). They could also submit a narrative explaining their process, or how they might do something differently next time.

You create a Portfolium assignment in MyCourses and grade it. Meanwhile, students’ submitted work will also reside in their Portfolios in Portfolium where students can make work publicly viewable or share it via other social media with their network and prospective employers. See the Advanced Options area when setting up the Portfolium assignment in MyCourses to determine initial public/private status in Portfolium.

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Laura Lohman, Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence, Queens University of Charlotte https://my.queens.edu/cafe/SitePages/Home.aspx

When an Assignment, Journal, or discussion Forum in MyCourses, or a hyperlink to another tool, such as Flipgrid, might be a better choice:

Situation Alternative approach to consider The student will never need their work again Assignment or other Activity in MyCourses

Work has no connection to students’ future coursework Assignment or other Activity in MyCourses

You think there may be a significant amount of weak, in-progress, or unpolished work

Use another type of assignment submission now. Then have students submit a final/revised product as a Portfolium assignment near the semester’s end. Or have them select their best work illustrating a specific skill near the semester’s end and curate that through a Portfolium assignment, perhaps accompanied by a narrative of why they choose that example.

You want to build significant class discussion and peer-learning around the work immediately

Discussion Forum in MyCourses

Flipgrid. Place a link to your grid or topic in MyCourses.

To maximize students’ comfort in sharing information and alleviate concern that others can access it

Journal in MyCourses

Add a Portfolium Assignment from MyCourses 1. How to add a Portfolium assignment in MyCourses

• If you encounter an error message after you are taken from MyCourses into Portfolium (at Step 10 in the job aid linked above and on the following pages), you may need to “claim” your course within Portfolium. To do this, go to https://queens.portfolium.com/ and click Queens login or go to https://portfolium.com/activity if you previously completed that step. Click Apps. Then click the second option that appears below Apps. In the left navigation under Assessment, click Courses (not My Courses). In the search box, enter the prefix of your course (e.g., QMP). Locate your class section, check the box, and click Claim. Complete the fields in the pop-up to finish claiming your section of the course.

2. Here you can see the remaining steps in adding a Portfolium assignment from within Moodle (MyCourses)

• Expand the Advanced Options area when setting up your Portfolium assignment and decide whether students’ work will automatically be made public in their Portfolio upon submission or initially kept private. Either way, you will still be able to see and grade their work by starting within MyCourses.

• Portfolium offers several Scoring (grading) options; you may find Numeric the most straightforward. • How is a rubric added in Portfolium? • How do I go back and edit the settings I put on the assignment within Portfolium? Check the

checkbox next to the assignment, then the gray Edit assignment button. • How do I go back and edit the settings I put on the assignment within MyCourses (e.g., Grade

category)? Click Edit settings on the assignment as you normally would in MyCourses.

3. Do you need technical help with Portfolium? Use the Chat feature in the bottom right corner to get help from Portfolium support.

Useful links • What types of files can students add to a Portfolium assignment? • What does a student experience when I add a Portfolium assignment in MyCourses? • You may want to include a link to a larger set of student help resources offered by Portfolium • What do Portfolios look like? • How does a student add a Project directly within Portfolium?

Jason Garvey, Hayworth Center for Online Learning

Jason Garvey, Hayworth Center for Online Learning

Jason Garvey, Hayworth Center for Online Learning

Jason Garvey, Hayworth Center for Online Learning