How to Create Your e-Portfolio.

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Note: This is a short version of the instructions.  To access the e-Portfolios Manual, go to the Blackboard Content System and choose “Institution Content,” then click on “e-Portfolio.doc.”

1. From the left menu, choose “Portfolios.”
2. Click on “Portfolio Creation.” A new window will appear.  On this new window, click on “Next” at the bottom right corner.
3. In the “Title” area of the new page, write “My Global Language Portfolio.” Of course, you may change the name to “My Spanish Portfolio,”  “My Italian Portfolio” or any other language. Inside the “Description” write a sentence or two about you, you may write them in English.
4. Click “Next” at the bottom right corner.
5. On the next page choose the design of your portfolio menu.  After you choose a design, click on “Next.”
6. The new page is about the first page of your portfolio.  In the “Title” area write: Global Language Portfolio. You may leave the “Welcome Message” area blank or write a short message in English. Click on “Next.”
7. On the “Add Content” page write “Mi foto” inside the “Menu Link Name.”  Click on “Browser.” The Blackboard “Content System” area will appear now; click on the Spanish folder, find your picture and hit “Submit.”
8. You are going to go back to the “Portfolio Creation” menu.  Hit “Next.”  Don’t write anything on the page with the name “Add Links.” Click “Next.”
9.    Under the “Menu Link Name” of the new page, write Pasaporte.
10.  Click inside the “Template” area.  Scroll down until you find “GLP Global Language Passport.” Click on “Next.”  On the next page, choose “Yes” to make the portfolio available.  Click “Next” to go to the last page.
11. Choose “Yes” to share the comments.  Hit “Finish” and choose “Ok” to create the portfolio.

Your e-portfolio is ready.   To see it, click on the name of the portfolio.  It will open on a new window.  Click on the left menu to see the sections of your passport.  If you need to change or add something, go back to “My Portfolios” and choose “Contents.”  Then choose “Modify” to change something inside of a page.  Click on “Remove” to erase a section.  If you need to add content --the file of a picture, for example--, click on “content” from the “Content / Link / Item” menu.  To be able to add content, you need to upload the content files first into a “Content System” folder.

Go back to the page with your portfolio and click on  “Manage.” The new page will have your portfolio’s name with a square next to it.  Click on the square.  Then click on “Share with users.”  Where it says “username” type your instructor’s username (the first part of his/her VCU e-mail). Then click on “submit.”  Note: you may choose to send an e-mail, but it is not necessary.  Hit “submit.”