How to Add a Reflection to your ePortfolio

 

ePortfolio is a personal portfolio tool for storing, organizing, reflecting on, and sharing items that represent your learning. You can include documents, graphics, audio files, videos, presentations, course work, etc. that demonstrate your improvement or mastery in a certain area. You decide what items you want to include in your ePortfolio, how you want to organize them, and who you want to share them with. This tutorial shows how to add a reflection to your ePortfolio.


1.    Login to MyFIRE

2.    Select User Tools at the top of the page in the navbar

 

3.    From the drop-down menu, select ePortfolio 

 

4.    The page will refresh to show the ePortfolio dashboard, which is the main page.


5.    Select the My Items tab. 

 

6.    Select the blue Add button to add a reflection to your ePortfolio account. 

 

7.    From the drop-down menu, select reflection. 

 

8.    When the page refreshes, name the reflection in the title field. 

 

9.    Type your thoughts about what you are learning within the Reflection textbox. Refer to the graph below to see the functions of the textbox.Note: For further instructions on how to utilize/navigate the content HTML editor textbox, please refer to the ‘How to use the HTML Editor’ tutorial. 





10. Next, tag the reflection - Tags are keywords that allow for the artifact item to be searched easily within the ePortfolio tool. You can search for items with specific tags, and other users can use your tags to search for items (Your items will not show unless shared). Once you have created your tag(s), select Add Tag. Tags can be added in bulk by separating them with commas.

a.    To make a multiple-word tag, place double quotes around the entire phrase. For example: typing "winter project" makes the two words a single tag. 

b.    To make a private tag that only you can see, type an @ symbol in front of the tag. For example: typing @draft adds a private @draft tag to an item that other users will not see when you share the item with them.

c.     To make a private multiple-word tag, put the at symbol before the quotation marks, for example: @"rough draft".  



11. Under the Comments title, the Allow others to add/view comments if they have sufficient permission checkbox is checked by default. If you would not like other users to add and view comment(s) on the reflection, unselect the checkbox. 




12. Then select save and close at the bottom of the page. Note: Reflection associations cannot be made until the reflection is saved.

 

13. When the page refreshes, add a comment to the reflection by selecting add comment if desired. 

 

a.    A pop-up window will appear, providing a textbox to enter a comment. For a diagram of the textbox functions, refer to step 9.

                                               i.     Select add at the bottom of the pop-up window to add the new comment.

                                              ii.     When the page refreshes, the newly created comment will be listed. From this page: 

1.    The user that created the comment will be visible

2.    The comment itself will be visible under the creator’s name. 

3.    The Posted In column will list where the comment was posted to. 

4.    The date and time that the comment was posted will be listed under the date posted column. 

5.    If a comment needs to be deleted, select the checkbox to the left of the desired comment, and then select the trash can icon within the last column to the right to delete the selected comment. Note: You will only be able to delete your comments on your items.

A.    A pop-up window will appear to confirm if you would like to delete the comment. Select yes.

 

                                            iii.     Once done adding comments or making edits, select the ePortfolio breadcrumb at the top of the page to navigate back to the main page.