Hello all,

I have a two follow-ups on the ePortfolio.

• In a previous post, I had asked you to change your privacy settings in your portfolio. However, I notice that many portfolios are still not viewable. If you have not done so already, could you please navigate to Dashboard > Settings > Reading and change the setting to: “I would like my site to be visible only to Registered network users.” This will allow staff and faculty with CWL’s to view your posts.
• At present, there are only 4 students who have published their posts to the ubcmbasmakeadifference (aggregator) site. When you create a post, if you feel that it is something you are proud of and you want to showcase, then you need to send that post to ubcmbasmakeadifference. To do so, on the top right of your “Add New Post” page (where you write your post), under the “Publish” section, please click the area directly under “Publish Immediately” – there you will have the option of also publishing your post to an external site, in this case ubcmbasmakeadifference.
• At present, ubcmbasmakeadifference is viewable only by people within the UBC network. Once we have enough strong examples of work, we will then make it public.

If you are having difficulty, or have questions, please get in touch with myself, Rodrigo or Carly and we will be pleased to assist you.

As you have been asked to post to your ePortfolio for Global Immersion, I wanted to provide guidance on Privacy Settings.

The intent for the ePortfolio is for the work you post there to be public and therefore part of your professional identity. You can either choose to do that now, or elect for more privacy until you have had some feedback on your work. Please do the following:

1. Go to Settings > Privacy
2. Read the Options available
3. Select either “I would like my site to be visible only to Registered network users” which will restrict viewing to people with a CWL login (i.e. faculty, staff and other students) or one of the top 2 options for open availability to the web. You need to select at least the first option mentioned above so that your posts can be seen by faculty and staff. 

Regarding your eportfolio, thank you for your patience as we sorted out back-end technicalities. This post provides important, updated instructions and resources in order for you to fully enable your eportfolio. Please take a few minutes to follow these steps. To begin, please navigate to http://learningcommons.sauder.ubc.ca/learn/portfolio/ . Here are the components in sequence:

1. Please read Step 1 Portfolios and the MBA Curriculum.
2. Most of you have already set-up a portfolio. Have you updated your portfolio categories?  (The portfolio template was updated recently to include the full menu of categories [Interests & Passions, Purpose & Direction, Skills, Competencies]).  If you already had a portfolio and have followed the above, step. please skip to point 4 below.
3. If you don’t have a portfolio, are you registered for UBC blogs? Also, create your portfolio here.
4. Do you have a blog? Create your blog.
5. Have you added yourself to the aggregators? (and, is your portfolio/blog included in the blogroll?)
6. Do you know how to submit artifacts/posts to the aggregator?
7. Have you looked at additional resources?
   • Introduction to WordPress, Choosing Artifacts, and Putting it all Together (which shows you how to send a post to the aggregator site).
   • There are also FAQs

Additional points:

• Once the steps above are completed, we will need to individually enable syncing between your portfolio and the aggregator.
• Any submissions you make to the aggregator will be put in moderating mode to be reviewed by your career manager before being pushed live ubcmbasmakeadifference
• We will not enable full public access to ubcmbasmakeadifference until we have some content to share.

I will be communicating more tips as well as clarifications and updates going forward. We are looking forward to seeing your portfolios develop and to the aggregator showcasing your ideas and talent.

Following up on eportfolios, I wanted to let you know that as of this past Monday, categories in your blog/eportfolio are now live. They are:

• My interests and passion
• My purpose and direction
• My skills (with subcategories)
• My business competencies (with subcategories)

We know you are busy now, so this is just an FYI. I will follow-up next week with more details on posting, and how to push a post to the public aggregator (portfolio). Thanks.