1.15.3. Five Steps to Your Portfolio Task

The following guidelines will help you to add portfolio tasks to your course in no time.

Step 1: Open course editor and insert a portfolio element
1	Search for your course in «My entries» in learning resources and open it.
2	Click on «Course editor» on your right in the tool box «Course tools.»
3	Select «Portfolio task» in the tool box «Insert course elements» on your right.
4	Select position of your portfolio task to be inserted and save your settings.
5	Indicate a short title in the tab «Title and Description» and save your settings.

Step 2: Create portfolio task
1	Click on «Select or create portfolio template» in the tab «Learning content.»
2	Click on «Create.»
3	Indicate a title as well as a description and save your settings.
4	Click on «Next.»

Step 3: Design portfolio task
1	Click on «Edit.»
2	Just click on the «Plus» icon to add a new page. Such pages can then be supplemented by structural elements.
3	Choose appropriate titles for your pages and structural elements before writing all necessary directions for your course participants in the description box. Pages and structural elements can be moved via «Drag&Drop» later on.
4	Determine in the section «Restrictions» what kind of artefacts course participants should be allowed to upload and to what extent.

Step 4: Configure portfolio task
1	Optionally you can define a deadline in the tab «Learning content» of the course editor and provide a message for course participants.
2	Select your assessment options in the tab «Assessment» and save your settings. You can choose between: «Score granted» (incl. min./max.), «Passed/failed» with option «Type of display» (automatically or manually), and «Individual comment.» Important: In order to assess portfolio tasks your course participants have to be registered in a group.

Step 5: Publish course
1	Select «Publish» on your right in the tool box «Editor tools.»
2	Click on course element before clicking on «Next.»
3	Select «All registered OLAT users» from the pull-down in the section «Modification of course access.»
4	Click on «Finish.»

Your portfolio task is now embedded in the course. Course participants can access it and integrate artifacts in its folder. Course authors as well as tutors can review and evaluate all portfolio tasks handed in by means of the assessment tool. Course participants will get an e-mail whenever there are new assessments.