MyPortfolio is an online electronic portfolio web application, based on the popular open-source product Mahara, used to show learning progress over time by continuously adding learning evidence and reflections.
It can be used to create:
- Professional development portfolios
- Competency-based portfolios
- Online posters or response to an assignment task
- Reflective Journals
‘Why a portfolio?’ video from Mahara
Take a look at this video produced by the Mahara team on why someone might use an ePortfolio.
Affordances
- Staff can develop and share templates to help students start to build their portfolios. Students can take more control as they become accustomed to this way of working.
- Groups can be used to provide an online space for students and staff to communicate, share, and provide feedback.
- Students can be encouraged to evidence learning activity throughout a programme. They control access to relevant audiences.
- Staff can refer students to publish to the e-portfolio after significant learning tasks, to remind them of what employers would …