Meet Portflow at Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference 2026
23 & 24 April 2026 | Durham | Teaching & Learning Centre
We’re excited to participate in Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference on technology advancements and AI impact on the future of education and VLE’s. Are you interested in fostering learner agency with AI-resistant, holistic assessment to build the skill-set for career-ready professionals? We would love to connect with you there!
Portflow is the student-owned learning & assessment portfolio dedicated to enhancing assessment by streamlining programme-level assessment processes. As universities rethink their assessment and curriculum designs in light of generative AI, Portflow offers an important advantage: it prioritises process over product and empowers learners to personalise how they demonstrate their progress towards achieving learning outcomes. Portflow enables institutions to…:
- … integrate feedback into learning, support assessment as, of, and for learning.
- … track skill development across courses, units, work-integrated learning (WIL) and extracurricular activities.
- … build assessments that are more authentic, resilient to AI, and meaningful for real-world application.
- … deliver a smooth user experience, through its strong synergy with the Blackboard VLE and intuitive user interface.
Beyond the Module: ECU’s Blueprint for Programmatic Learning and Learner Agency – Fundamentally Transforming Assessment
Discover how Edith Cowan University (Australia) is fundamentally transforming their university programme’s curricula with a more holistic approach to learning and assessment.
Acknowledging both previously existing and more recent emergent challenges (GenAI) to the assurance of learning and traditional assessment, ECU is a frontrunner in transforming their education for a more robust, authentic, holistic, and responsible future of learning and assessment. Learn what their take is on ‘programmatic learning’ and all about their ‘curriculum transformation project’.
We’ll cover the design of the new curricula and how they are building the future of assessment with a more holistic approach, as well as by stimulating the agency of their learners. Moreover, we’ll explore the crucial role of Portflow as the catalyst of this educational transformation, enabling ECU to realise their ambitions and modern vision on education.
“For us, Portflow is an effective platform to help us achieve our objectives. It offers a straightforward and user-friendly way to support active and conscious skill development. Building a culture of skills development and skills capture is a challenge, but now we have the right technology. It’s now up to us to build the right mindset!”
Empowering Institutions to Rethink Their Assessment in the Age of AI
Empowering Institutions to Rethink Their Assessment in the Age of AI
The advent of generative AI forces us to rethink outdated assessment methods and transition to developmentally oriented education, ensuring that diplomas retain their value and curricula are more closely aligned with professional practice.
A digital portfolio like Portflow is a crucial link in this transformation to an AI-resistant assessment strategy. It provides the digital infrastructure needed to shift the focus to holistic, developmentally oriented, and longitudinal assessment, ensuring that every graduate can present a verifiable and authentic portfolio of competency development.
In this whitepaper, we explain why a developmentally oriented approach is important for future-proof assessment and examine practical examples from several leading Dutch educational institutions.
