Foster Career-Readiness with Holistic Assessment and Learner Agency using a Digital Portfolio
Foster Career-Readiness with Holistic Assessment and Learner Agency using a Digital Portfolio
Portflow is The Learning Experience Portfolio fully synergized with your LMS / VLE.
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Portflow enables your university to
Use Holistic Assessment
- Centralise programme-level competencies, outcomes, and skills
Focus on formative assessment, separating marking from feedback
Evaluate the process of growth in flexible journeys and reflective practice
and Foster Learner Agency …
Teach students to take responsibility as the key to success in Lifelong Learning
Stimulate ownership and sense of control through self-regulated learning
A personal learning journey with adequate scaffolding along the route
… to build the skill-set for career-ready professionals
What
Extend your LMS with a student-owned portfolio
Portflow is an add-on (LTI app) for your LMS / VLE. In Portflow, students can make their developmental progress visible and accountable under their own control by collecting evidence, asking for feedback from teachers, peers, and experts, and creating an assessment file. Teachers can provide students with the necessary scaffolding in this process.
Everything takes place within the trusted environment that your LMS / VLE offers so that users benefit from both barrier-free visual integration and a seamless functional connection.
Synergized with your LMS / VLE
Portflow’s integration with your LMS (Canvas by Instructure, D2L Brightspace, Moodle, Blackboard by Anthology) goes far beyond an integration for a seamless end-user experience.
What makes Portflow unique as e-portfolio software?
Overarching Student e-Portfolio for the Entire Learning Journey
Portflow ties together all learning experiences, from the entire learning journey. It unifies the artefacts and feedback from learning processes and results from all learning contexts such as courses, modules, projects and extracurricular activities.
Robust Goal Framework as a Solid Basis
The student can build their portfolio by linking these artefacts as evidence to their goal framework of personal and programme-wide skills, outcomes, and competencies.
Closing the Feedback Loop
Portfolio Software That Makes Learning Visible
Progress and growth towards mastery is trackable and visualized for both students and coaches, allowing for adequate scaffolding, guidance and reflections. In addition, narrative feedback is presented in an aggregated overview.
Leveraging the LMS / VLE for a Seamless Experience
Students and instructors remain in their trusted learning environment through the synergy with the LMS / VLE, without the need to open new tabs or sign in elsewhere. Students can import LMS assignment submissions including received feedback as evidence, they can invite other LMS users to their assessment portfolio, and summative assessments can be graded within the LMS: a seamless experience that goes far beyond integrated. External users can easily and securely access shared educational portfolio’s without an LMS account.
Lifelong Learning
Easily create showcases, exports, or add an alumnus login to keep using the portfolio after graduation.
Pieter J. Smits
Product Manager Portflow
Jas Kalsi
Managing Director Portflow for UK&I
Thomas Ohlenforst
Account Executive Portflow
Virtual coffee
Let’s discuss how a digital portfolio like Portflow could help your institution
What makes Portflow stand out as a student e-portfolio?
Student Ownership
Scaffolding on the Route
The teacher can provide the right scaffolding in Portfolio through templates, feedback and much more to enable students to build towards their ownership.
Integrated with your LMS / VLE
Portfolio integrates seamlessly with your LMS: dedicated global navigation, import submitted assignment attempts as evidence, freeze portfolio to hand in for it to be assessed in the Grader or marking tool.
Student Ownership in Portflow
Scaffolding in Portflow
Aimed at teaching students how to take responsibility over their own learning, the teacher can offer support that matches their students’ needs. Teachers and mentors can determine the degree of available guidance and the degree of reduction over time. More importantly, students can be provided with authentic 360° feedback.
Portflow integrated with your LMS
The LMS serves as the foundation that traditionally is mostly course oriented and driven by the institution and their teachers. Portflow adds a student-driven module to that sound foundation. In Portflow, students are in the lead as they can set their goals and structure their portfolio. During their learning activities they gather artifacts as evidence for their portfolio. These can stem from LMS assignments, but also from external learning sources like internships, projects, and testing applications. Next, a student can initiate a progress review to have their progress towards goal achievements assessed by their peers, teachers, experts and even themselves. Lastly, the student can use a snapshot of their portfolio for summative assessment in the LMS grading application or an external grading application or they can use a snapshot as a showcase portfolio.
Portflow’s greatest value: As a student, you are able to direct your own development in one place and track your progress toward entry-level competence.
How
Key Features of Our Portfolio Software
Goal setting
Set personal and programme goals and track your progress.
Support iterative learning
Assessment in your Grader
Select evidence for final submission and grade in your LMS / VLE or grading application.
Learn from anyone
Invite LMS / VLE and external users to provide feedback.
Goal setting
Support iterative learning
Assessment in your Grader
Learn from anyone
Insights about digital portfolios
By Thomas Ohlenforst |
8 December 2025
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By Boy Janissen |
4 December 2025
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By Yas Farahani |
10 November 2025
A couple of weeks ago, we had the opportunity to attend the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) ...
By Yas Farahani |
3 October 2025
In contemporary higher education, feedback is widely recognized as a vital component of the learning process. However, ...
By Yas Farahani |
26 September 2025
In today’s higher education landscape, there’s growing recognition that the ability to think critically, adapt and learn ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
21 August 2025
Meet Lottie, more than just a mascot – a companion throughout your personal learning journey. Lottie is ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
19 August 2025
We’re very excited to be announcing the direct availability of the brand-new Portflow mobile app for learners. ...
By Elise Claassen |
23 July 2025
We continually strive to improve Portflow. We do this not only by adding new features to facilitate ...
By Boy Janissen |
10 July 2025
Jim Bouw, Business Developer for UK&I at Portflow by Drieam reflects on his visit to the Advance HE ...
By Jim Bouw |
1 April 2025
Last month, our colleagues Jas, Thomas and Yas visited Jisc Digifest25 in Birmingham on behalf of the ...
By Boy Janissen |
27 March 2025
A Long-term Partnership Between HvA and Portflow, With A Focus On Co-Creation In line with their new ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
18 October 2024
Involving external parties in the learner's learning process has become even easier. With the introduction of the portal ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
4 October 2024
In today’s world of modernizing education and flexible pathways, achievements and credentials come in many forms. Badges ...
By Mieke Ridderhof |
4 October 2024
Education professionals continuously seek ways to enhance student engagement and streamline academic processes. One tool steadily gaining ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
19 September 2024
Portflow is purpose-built to leverage the affordances of the LMS (or VLE) and to extend its capabilities. ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
12 August 2024
Plan ahead and tell your narrative with Learning Trips & Activities: the next step into facilitating the student’s ...
By Mieke Ridderhof |
25 July 2024
For years, InstructureCon has been a beacon for educators, technologists, and innovators, creating a dynamic space where ...
By Boy Janissen |
18 July 2024
In this article, we introduce you to entangled pedagogy. This view on the connection between technology and pedagogy ...
By Egle Talandyte |
28 March 2024
Last month, the Portflow team travelled to Birmingham for Digifest 2024, their second attendance to Jisc’s leading ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
16 February 2024
Recognizing the need for a more granular approach to tracking student progress, both for the coach and ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
30 January 2024
A safe and confidential learning environment is paramount to ensuring an effective feedback culture and fostering student ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
24 January 2024
Usually, you only see the end result of a learning process; achieved, or not achieved. Instead, what ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
19 January 2024
Ready to take your coaching and mentoring game to the next level? Portflow has just rolled out ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
10 January 2024
We’re excited to bring you the new milestone in the way you can track, assess and enhance ...
By Egle Talandyte |
16 August 2023
Now that a couple of weeks have passed and the Drieam team is finally back to a ...
By Egle Talandyte |
10 August 2023
Drieam had the honour to be invited to the Annual Meeting of AAEEBL: the Association for Authentic, Experiential, ...
By Egle Talandyte |
12 June 2023
‘De Staat van het Onderwijs' provides an annual picture of the state of education in ...
By Jim Bouw |
12 June 2023
‘De Staat van het Onderwijs' provides an annual picture of the state of education in the Netherlands. ...
By Egle Talandyte |
6 June 2023
Assessment is an essential component of the learning process, as it provides students with feedback on their ...
By Elise Claassen |
24 May 2023
We have a new feature to announce! When something important is thrown away by mistake, the portfolio owner ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
28 March 2023
With our attendance at Jisc Digifest 2023, we had one major goal: engage with as many people as ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
10 February 2023
We have yet another feature to announce! This time, we have made it possible to export your portfolio. ...
By Mart Senden |
9 February 2023
The role of students in their learning process is changing from passive recipients to autonomous and active ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
7 February 2023
We're always looking for ways to improve the experience of our users and help them achieve their goals. ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
6 February 2023
We are excited to announce a new set of features to gather (and show!) progress insights in Portflow. ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
21 December 2022
Student ownership in education might lead to higher student motivation, involvement, and responsibility for the learning process. Accordingly, ...
By Elise Claassen |
16 December 2022
Timelines are everywhere, they are present in (educational) apps and have become a staple in many tools. But ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
4 November 2022
Feedback should never be an endpoint, but a valuable step in the self-regulated learning process. The processing of ...
By Pieter J. Smits |
22 October 2022
After its first launching year, it's time for a proper name for our Portfolio application. In the past ...
Experiences
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Certificates
Portflow is LTI Advantage certified
Portflow is built on the trusted and proven Drieam LTI framework. This framework ensures the secure and stable data exchange with the LMS. Portflow is certified for LTI v 1.3, LTI Deep Linking 2.0, and LTI Names and Role Provisioning Services 2.0.
Portflow is certified for the 1EdTech Data Privacy standard
Data Privacy and trust is a key priority for us. With this certificate, Portflow has been vetted for student privacy, data security, and other safety issues by 1EdTech.
Accessibility
Portflow is fully WCAG 2.2 level AA conformant
As accessibility and inclusivity is a prerequisite for offering personal learning journeys, Drieam is committed to continuously improve the accessibility of Portflow. Currently, Portflow is fully conformant to the WCAG 2.2 level AA and partially level AAA industry standard.
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