ePortfolios Resources for Students

All of the tutorials and resources you need can be found  on the Faculty of Arts ePortfolios website at http://eportfolios.arts.ubc.ca
Please bookmark that page on your web browser so it’s a handy reference for you! During this Workshop Series, you will be directed towards specific resources on the Arts ePortfolios website.

What is an ePortfolio?

Information on Privacy

You can choose how private you want your portfolio to be when you set it up. It is suggested that you keep it completely private, and not accessible by Google, while you are creating it. Please see the following video for more details: http://eportfolios.arts.ubc.ca/getting-started/understanding-your-sites-privacy-options/

ePortfolio Examples

The following page contains student and professional portfolios in a range of disciplines within the Faculty of Arts: http://eportfolios.arts.ubc.ca/example-eportfolios/

Here are a few selected examples of portfolios from UBC and elsewhere:

• Bachelor of Arts in Sociology student Hugh Knapp, class of 2018, UBC – portfolio
  * This example focuses on choosing six projects that connect to the person’s career goals and individual identity as a learner. The basic structure consists of an About area (description of person and interests) and a Work area that consists of 6 pages describing the chosen projects. Using a different theme layout, the About and Work could exist as WordPress ‘Pages’ and the 6 projects might appear as ‘Subpages’underneath the Work heading.
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• Professional from discipline of Anthropology –  portfolio
  * This example focuses on representing the different areas that make up a professor’s career, which include research, teaching, writing, among other things. Each of these areas has their own ‘Page’ that is clearly seen in the site’s menu.
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• Bachelor of Arts in Knowledge Integration student, Univ. of Waterloo –  portfolio
  * This example takes a different approach to the site layout, when compared to the examples shown above. The first thing one sees when entering the portfolio is the title “Skills Spotlight” with the following sub-headings and short descriptive summaries: Leadership, Design Thinking, Teamwork, Communication. Within each summary, certain phrases appear as links that when clicked, take the reader to example projects illustrating those specific skills. If one scrolls down the page, you can see the three chosen projects the student has chosen to include in their portfolio. This kind of ‘skills’ approach to the site structure, could be used to draw clear connections between a portfolio and a Cover Letter that perhaps lists these skills. The portfolio can be seen as a place to provide strong evidence for what is written in the Cover Letter and listed on a Resume.
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• Master of Architecture student, Univ. of Oregon – portfolio
  * On the About/Home page for this example, the person listed highlights from their resume below the introduction to who they are, in a resume format with headings. The project examples on the Pages are all images with just captions including title, date and basic information because of the visual nature of the person’s discipline.

How to Get Started?

It takes less than 5 minutes to set up your site at UBC Blogs and all you need is your CWL login. Follow the instructions here. You do not have to use the ePortfolio template in the Getting Started instructions unless you want to. Just set up your site and then once logged in, go into your Dashboard > Appearance > Themes to view the options for how you want your portfolio to look. I suggest you start with something simple and you can always change it later once you know more of what you want to do.