THE ABILITY TO TRACK A STUDENT’S LEARNING JOURNEY AND PERSONAL GROWTH

Portflow has provided Fontys with an ePortfolio solution to implement programmatic assessment at their institute. Along their personal learning journey, students take ownership of their work by collecting evidence from their experiences and linking them to the outcomes and skills required for becoming adaptive professionals.

BETTER STREAMLINED FEEDBACK

In Portflow, there is a feedback request feature that allows students to take ownership of their work by asking for feedback from peers, coaches, and also external reviewers and involved parties. The feedback provided on a student’s work remains visible in Portflow, no matter where a student places their work in their portfolio. This has made it much easier for the teachers and coaches to see whether a student’s work has received feedback and whether the feedback loop is closed or not.

STUDENTS ARE EMPOWERED TO LEARN IN A WAY THAT SUITS THEM

Because Portflow is a non-linear learning platform, it allows students to work in a way that matches their learning preference the best. With Portflow, students at Fontys are empowered to decide for themselves what evidence they create, how they structure their portfolios, when and whom to request feedback from, and what they eventually submit within the VLE that proves their achievements. This results in an inclusive learning experience for students.

EMBRACING UNPREDICTABILITY WITH FLEXIBILITY

By giving their students (scaffolded) control over their own learning activities and processes, Fontys recognised that this would yield a certain amount of unpredictability in the resulting learning processes and activities. Portflow enabled Fontys to fully embrace this unpredictability with flexibility in a platform that allows users to share, document and interact on developmental progress with any given learning flow.

LOWER STRESS TOWARDS THE END OF THE SEMESTER FOR BOTH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

Prior to discovering Portflow, students at Fontys used to make their portfolios in Microsoft Teams, as a PDF-document. This not only resulted in extremely large PDF documents, but also an increased workload for students, as well as an assessment peak for teachers towards the end of the semester. With Portflow, students can create their portfolio’s on the fly throughout the course and teachers can provide feedback at their own pace mid-semester.