• How to make a portfolio
• How to fill a portfolio
• Add grades and feedback to a portfolio
• How to check a portfolio
• How to download a portfolio
• Limitations and solutions

1. Login to Blackboard
2. Click on 'Tools' in the menu on the left site of the screen.
3. Then click on 'Portfolios' to open the Blackboard portfolio tool

You will see your portfolio start page. If you have already created portfolios you will see an overview of these.

There are three sections on this page:

1. My Portfolios shows an overview page of all the portfolios you have created.
2. My Artefacts goes to the page where you can manage and edit the content elements of your portfolios.
3. Shared with Me provides an overview of sections of Portfolios of fellow students that have been sent to you for feedback. we will not discuss this further in this article.

Make sure you are in the My portfolios section. This is the default screen you start with when you go to My Portfolios.

1. Click on Create Portfolio

1. Give the portfolio a name
2. Leave all other choices at the default values
3. Click on Submit

After submitting your portfolio, you will see a screen that allows you to build the portfolio.

1. Click on the plus sign to create a new page
2. Give the page the name of the course

Adding the graded assignments and assessments using Artefacts

1. Click on Edit Artefact
2. In the pop-up window, click Add from Course

1. Select the desired course
2. Select the desired assignments you wish to add
3. Click on Submit

1. Click on the arrow to the left of the cross.
2. Be sure to check all the boxes for each assignment otherwise not everything will be included.
3. When you are done, click Save.

If you want to add a SafeAssign (plagiarism) report to your e-portfolio read this article.

If you would like to add another course, repeat the steps for each course whose graded assignments you would like to download.

1. Is your assignment complete? Then click Done Editing in the upper left corner.

Still want to check the portfolio?

1. Then click on View

If everything is complete:

1. Click on More
2. Followed by Download

1. Click again on Click to download Portfolio and save the zip file to a desired location on your computer

Unzip the zip file and open the 'index' file to access the portfolio locally. Follow these steps:

1. Download and install the WinZip program on your computer. (WinZip is a software program that compresses files (to reduce file size) and decompresses (unzips) them, making it easier to manage and share large files).
2. Open the downloaded zip file from Blackboard using WinZip.

2. Select the folder where the extracted file should be placed under 'Actions'
3. Select the zip file in WinZip
4. Click on 'Unzip' and select 'to this computer'

Now open the extracted folder and double-click on 'index.html' to view the portfolio.