Instructors: Update bottom of this page with the list of which Assignments/Projects from your course students should contribute to their ePortfolios.

What is an ePortfolio?

An electronic portfolio/ePortfolio is a collection of student work that is useful for showing both the product and the process of learning – while the product demonstrates accountability to learning objectives and showcases the students’ developing skills, the process creates an ongoing workspace for self-reflective learning. A portfolio shouldn’t be simply an archive of your work; instead, the real value is found in portfolios as living, dynamic presentations of learning, developing competencies, and intellectual and professional growth.

All students enrolled in the M.Ed HPE program (or either associated HPE Certificate) will add major work or projects completed in their courses to their program-level (i.e., “longitudinal”) ePortfolio, housed on the Portfolium network (https://portfolium.com/network/usask). Instructors will indicate, as part of the assessment scheme for each course, which assignments should be added to the ePortfolios, and will assign a modest portion of the course grade (minimum 10%) for this purpose (see each course syllabus for details).

At the end of your studies, you will exit your program with a thoughtfully-compiled collection of your best work, a timeline of your growth and development as a learner, and a showcase of who you are as a professional and a scholar in the field of Health Professions Education. You will have access to your ePortfolio as long as you want, even after completing the program!

A mockup of an ePortfolio built in Portfolium can be seen here: https://portfolium.com/HPEstudent; follow the “roadmap” below for some assistance in building your own!

Roadmap for Building Your ePortfolio

The following steps (1-5) will take you through how to create, build, and submit your ePortfolio.

You might also find the following walkthrough video helpful; it covers the same steps (click here to open the video in Panopto, with chapter markers to navigate through the different parts).

The following link is also helpful to new users getting underway with Portfolium (there are answers to lots of “How do I…?” questions found here):

Portfolium Network – Table of Contents

1. Access Your ePortfolio on the Portfolium Network (i.e., “Folio”)

While logged into Canvas, in the Global Navigation (left-hand side menu in the web version), click on “Account” and then “Folio”. From there, click to "Login", and use your USask email address (NSID@mail.usask.ca) and password to proceed. Note that this will take you out of Canvas, and into Portfolium. The following images show these same steps.

2. Customize Your Profile and Update Your Profile Settings

Once in Portfolium, you will likely find the navigation to be very similar to some popular social media sites, such as LinkedIn or Facebook. You have lots of customization options to make your ePortfolio your own. You have complete control over the privacy and visibility settings of your profile, as well as individual projects that you add to your portfolio. You also have the option of adding other users as “Connections”, if you like. For more help, see:

Portfolium Network – Profile and Settings

3. Adding Projects to Your ePortfolio

Upload some work you wish to showcase and it will be added to your Portfolium profile under the tab labelled “Portfolio”. Lots of file types are supported, so you can show your work in the form of Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, MP3, Powerpoints, links to videos, external web links, and more. A project can also be made up of multiple files paired together. You can also import work that you have already submitted through Canvas (e.g., something that you handed in for grading through a Canvas course Assignment). See the following for more assistance:

Portfolium Network – Projects
How do I add Projects to my Portfolio?

As you add work to your ePortfolio, you should also align each Project to 1 (or more) of the 7 HPE Domains of Competency (DoC) (see list below). Choose the DoC(s) that you feel the Project shows the strongest representation of. Projects in Portfolium can be marked with these DoC by using the “Skills” labels.

Another layer of organization will be added to the ePortfolios by organizing Projects into "Courses". This will help your colleagues and instructor find your work for each course quickly.

See the following links for more assistance:

How do I add Skills to my profile?
How do I add courses to my profile?

4. Attach Learner Reflections to Your Work

Each project added to the student’s portfolio must include a Learner Reflection. Learner Reflections are meant to document the process of learning, of teaching, and of creating, and serve to dedicate a space in which students can share a frank and open self-examination of their own development and maturation as a HPE scholar and professional.

You can download and make use of the provided Template for ePortfolio Learner Reflections.docx to help you structure these reflections. The prompts in this template are there to help you follow Gibb’s reflective cycle (1988), but note that you DO NOT necessarily need to respond to every part of Gibb’s reflective cycle – instead use the template prompts as guidance to help you craft a cohesive reflection on your learning process.

In your reflections, it is also important that you are incorporating an explanation of how your work is aligned to 1 (or more) of the 7 HPE Domains of Competency (see list below).

Save your Learner Reflection (in Word or PDF format) and attach it to the project in Portfolium as an additional file.

5. Submit Your ePortfolio for Feedback and/or Grading

See the specific ePortfolio information in the Assignments area of each course, and in each course Syllabus, for more information on how your instructor wants you to submit your ePortfolio for grading / assessment.

For each course, your ePortfolio will be assessed at the end of the term according to the following checklist, giving you a mark out of 10:

ePortfolio Contributions & Organization
Student’s Portfolium profile is complete and contains all relevant projects / major assignments from that course.	1 mark
Each project is organized into a “Course”.	1 mark
Each project is labelled with at least 1 appropriate Domain of Competency by using the “Skill” label.	1 mark
Learner Reflections
Each project includes a thoughtful and thorough Learner Reflection, following Gibb’s reflective cycle and the provided template.	4 marks
The Learner Reflection added to each Project includes a discussion of how the Project demonstrates the Domains of Competency it was labelled with.	3 marks

HPE Domains of Competency (DoC):

Through completion of their coursework, students enrolled in the HPE program will demonstrate their teaching, learning, and scholarly competencies according to the following broad domains (or Domains of Competency):

Instructional Teaching Methods
- The effective use of technology, experiential learning, simulations, small and large group teaching, clinical teaching, teaching in rounds, at the bed-side and other work-based environments.
Effective Student Assessment
- Assessment of learning, assessment for learning, and assessment as learning in a variety of settings and contexts.
Teams and Collaboration
- Applying best and promising practices in effective inter and intra professional teams and collaborations in their local contexts.
Leadership and Change
- Leading curriculum and program design, change, and implementation.
Evaluation
- Applying tools to effectively assess program effectiveness and lead improvement initiatives.
Educational Research in HPE
- The systematic collection and analysis of data and peer-reviewed literature related to the field of Health Professions Education. Research may involve a variety of methods and various aspects of HPE including student learning, teaching methods, teacher training, and teaching contexts.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
- The systematic inquiry into teaching and learning in higher education which advances practice by making findings public, including inquiry by classroom and program assessment, action research, reflective practice, peer review of teaching, traditional educational research, and faculty development efforts to enhance teaching and learning.

Notes about the Domains of Competency (DoC):

As students add Projects to their Portfolium ePortfolio, they should label each Project with 1 (or more) of these DoC using the “Skills” label. In their accompanying Learner Reflections, they will elucidate how these DoC are demonstrated by each Project.

Students enrolled in the Certificate for Quality Teaching in HPE will primarily focus on DoC 1, 2, and 3; however, they may also demonstrate other DoC throughout their studies.

Students enrolled in the Certificate for Improving Teaching and Learning in HPE will primarily focus on DoC 4 and 5; however, they may also demonstrate other DoC throughout their studies.

Students enrolled in the M.Ed HPE program will demonstrate all DoC (1-7) throughout their studies, and in particular will focus on DoC 6 and 7 with a much greater depth than what the Certificate students will.

Students are not expected to demonstrate all DoC within every course. Remember that you are building a program-level ePortfolio. Across your entire program, you will collect evidence of these DoC, with the aim of exiting with an ePortfolio that clearly shows evidence of your competencies in each domain.

Which Projects From COURSE ### Should Go Into My ePortfolio?

By the end of this course, you should add the following projects to your ePortfolio:

Assignment ##: [Title/description], with Learner Reflection
Assignment ##: [Title/description], with Learner Reflection
Assignment ##: [Title/description], with Learner Reflection
Assignment ##: [Title/description], with Learner Reflection

See more details about each of these Assignments, as well as the final submission area for the ePortfolios, in the Assignments area of the course.