Creating Reflections and Commenting in ePortfolio
You can use Reflections in ePortfolio to record your thoughts, interest, goals or even a critical analysis of your learning.
A Reflection can be an independent item or it can be associated with an artefact, learning objective, collection or presentation. By associating a reflection with another item, you emphasise the relationship between them. It may also make it easier to revisit your goals and thoughts at a later date.
This guide covers the following topics, use these links for easier navigation.
- Navigate to ePortfolio
- Navigate to Reflection
- Viewing Comments & Commenting on a Reflection
- Associate a Reflection with an Artefact, Learning Objective, Collection, or Presentation
- Tagging your Content
Step 1: Navigate to ePortfolio
1. From your VU Collaborate home page, navigate to a unit space located in My Spaces.
2. Select Toolbox from the Navbar in the Learning Space and then select My ePortfolio.
Step 2: Navigate to Reflection
1. Select My Items tab.
2. Click on the Add menu and select Reflection.
On the new screen that appears,
3. You may optionally give your reflection a Title.
4. Next, enter your thoughts in the Reflection field.
5. Add any tags you want the reflection to have.
6. Select Allow others to add/view comments if they have sufficient permission if you want to provide others with the option to comment on your reflection.
7. When you are satisfied with your Reflection, click Save & Close or Save.
Step 3: Viewing Comments & Commenting on a Reflection
At the bottom of a Reflection, if the owner has given permission, you can publish a comment by clicking on Add Comment. You can also comment on your own Reflections, and read other people’s comments on your Reflection by scrolling down under the Comments section.
Step 4: Associate a Reflection with an Artefact, Learning Objective, Collection, or Presentation
1. Click Edit from the context menu of an existing reflection.
2. Click Edit from the context menu of an existing reflection.
3. Select whether you want to associate the reflection with an Artefact, Collection, Presentation, or Learning Objective.
4. Select an item from the list of items that appears, then click Add.
5. On the Edit Reflection page, click Save and Close.
Step 5: Tagging your Content
Tags are keywords or descriptive labels that you add to items to help categorize them. For example, you can tag items with course codes, subjects, topics, purpose, or status. You can search both your own ePortfolio and others shared items by tags.
1. Click edit from the context menu of an artefact, reflection, presentation, collection, or learning objective.
2. Enter the tag/s in the Tags field and select Add Tag.
3. Click Save after you are finished adding tags to your work.
Tips:
- Enter multiple tags at once by separating words using spaces.
- Use quotes "" to create multi-word tags, e.g "winter project".
- Use the @ symbol in front of a tag to make it a private tag only you can see, e.g. @draft.
- The search tool matches parts of words and phrases (e.g searching for "read" will match "reading" and "Reading Materials").