Portflow is purpose-built to leverage the affordances of the LMS (or VLE) and to extend its capabilities. As one of the powerful features of the LMS, rubrics are now also integrated with Portflow. By allowing students to effortlessly integrate the feedback from their teachers that was provided in a rubric right into their portfolio, Portflow brings in a wealth of granular, structured information. This adds to the greater, more holistic view of a student’s development, linked to outcomes, competencies, and objectives on their learning journey.
Aiming to represent the entire learning journey, Portflow is already the place where students can collect evidence or artefacts from any learning activity — such as formal course assignments, reflections, extracurricular activities, or personal development plans. Direct feedback (both prompted and unprompted) from any invitee within or outside the institution can be added to the portfolio, collections, and evidence. The combination of these artefacts and feedback substantiate the holistic view on the student’s development.
To further strengthen this holistic approach, feedback that was provided on assignments in Canvas and Brightspace using rubrics is now automatically imported into Portflow with the corresponding assignment. This is added to the generic feedback that was already being imported. Rubric-based feedback provides detailed insights into specific criteria that the student’s assignment was evaluated on. Having these insights available at the fingertips of students and visitors of the portfolio makes it possible to do deeper and richer analyses, and monitor the development over time more adequately. Subsequently, students are able to link these insights from rubric criteria to their programme, course, or personal goals within their portfolio. The aggregated feedback overview gets enriched with more detailed insights, structured per goal.
About the Author: Pieter J. Smits
