ASU Portfolio
Use ASU Portfolio to help students collect examples of their work, reflect on their learning and showcase their skills and achievements over time. Students can create portfolios for courses, programs or other audiences, while faculty can use portfolios to review student learning and progress toward course or program goals.
Cost
No costAudience
Students, faculty & staffPurpose
Skills showcaseCanvas integration
External tool assignment submission passes grades backGetting started
Choose the starting point that fits what you want to do with ASU Portfolio.
- New to ASU Portfolio?
Sign in to ASU Portfolio with your ASURITE credentials. Explore the ASU Portfolio video tutorials to learn how to create portfolios and projects, add artifacts and work with templates. - Creating a portfolio activity for your course?
Start by deciding what you want students to collect, reflect on or demonstrate. Students can create their own portfolios, or you can use a template to provide a consistent structure for projects, artifacts and reflection. - Using ASU Portfolio with Canvas?
Create a Canvas assignment using ASU Portfolio as the External Tool. You can have students create a portfolio from a specific template or submit an existing portfolio or project. Portfolio submissions can be reviewed and graded through Canvas SpeedGrader.
Using this tool in your course
ASU Portfolio can support reflection, assessment and the development of student work over time. Start with what you want students to collect, reflect on, demonstrate or share.
- You want students to collect evidence of their learning over time.
Students can add files, links and digital credentials as artifacts, then organize them within projects and portfolios. This can help students bring work from multiple assignments or experiences together in one place. - You want students to reflect on their learning and growth.
ASU Portfolio includes description and reflection fields for portfolios, projects and artifacts. Use these spaces to ask students to explain their choices, connect their work to course concepts and reflect on how their knowledge or skills have developed. - You want students to demonstrate competencies or learning outcomes.
Organize projects around competencies or learning outcomes and ask students to select artifacts that provide evidence of their progress. Students can use reflections to explain how each artifact demonstrates the associated competency. - You want students to build a portfolio across multiple courses or experiences.
Students can continue adding projects and artifacts to existing portfolios, allowing their work to develop beyond a single assignment or course. Programs can use a shared structure to help students document progress over time. - You want students to share their work with different audiences.
Students can create private links for sharing within ASU or public links for audiences outside ASU. This allows the same portfolio approach to support course review, program milestones, internships, graduate applications or professional showcases.
Activity examples
- Course learning portfolio
Students build a portfolio throughout the course to collect selected assignments, projects or other artifacts that demonstrate their learning. For each artifact or project, ask students to explain what the work demonstrates and reflect on how their understanding or skills developed. - Competency or program portfolio
Organize a portfolio around course, program or professional competencies, with each project representing a competency and related artifacts providing evidence of student learning. Students can add reflections explaining how their work demonstrates each competency and revisit the portfolio as they progress through the program. - Professional showcase portfolio
Students select examples of their strongest work and create a portfolio for an audience beyond the course, such as prospective employers, internship supervisors or graduate programs. Ask students to provide context for each artifact and reflect on the skills or achievements it demonstrates.
Compare your options
ASU Portfolio is one of several ways students can collect, organize and share their work. Choose an option based on whether students need to reflect on their learning, demonstrate growth over time, continue building a collection of work beyond a course or simply submit and share course work.
| ASU Portfolio | Canvas | Google Apps | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best suited for | Building portfolios that collect evidence of learning, reflection and growth over time. | Submitting and grading individual course assignments. | Creating, collaborating on and sharing documents, presentations and other course materials. |
Organization | Portfolios can contain projects and individual artifacts organized around courses, competencies or other goals. | Work is organized around courses, modules and assignments. | Files are organized in Drive folders or Shared Drives. |
| Reflection | Description and reflection fields can be used throughout portfolios, projects and artifacts. | Reflection can be collected through assignments, discussions or other Canvas activities. | Reflection can be added within Docs, Slides or other files. |
| Sharing beyond a course | Students can create private ASU links or public links for audiences outside ASU. | Primarily designed for participation within a Canvas course. | Files can be shared with specific people or through appropriate Google sharing settings. |
| Use over time | Well suited for building a collection of work across assignments, courses and program experiences, with continued access after a student's time at ASU. | Primarily organized around an individual Canvas course. | Files can remain available and be reorganized or reused over time. |
FAQ
Yes. Students can continue accessing ASU Portfolio after their time at ASU by signing in with their ASURITE credentials. This allows students to continue using and sharing portfolios they created while at ASU.
Yes. Faculty can use templates to provide students with a consistent portfolio structure, including projects, artifacts, custom fields and guidance for description and reflection fields. Students create their own portfolio from the template and can then add or update their work. Templates can also be connected to ASU Portfolio assignments in Canvas.
Yes. ASU Portfolio can be selected as an External Tool for a Canvas assignment. Students can create and submit a portfolio from a linked template or submit an existing portfolio or project. Faculty can review and grade the submitted work through Canvas SpeedGrader.
Yes. Students can create a public link that allows people outside ASU to view a portfolio without signing in. They can also create a private link for sharing within ASU and disable or re-enable shared links as needed.
Students can add files, links and digital credentials as artifacts and organize them directly within a portfolio or into projects. Portfolios, projects and artifacts can include descriptions and reflections to provide context for the work.
Accessibility, privacy, and other considerations
Accessibility
- ASU Portfolio includes accessibility features that support the creation of more accessible portfolio content. When students upload images, they are prompted to provide alternative text or identify an image as decorative. Faculty should also encourage students to consider accessibility when adding documents, videos, audio, links and other portfolio content.
Sharing and audience
- Students control how portfolios are shared outside a Canvas assignment. Private links are limited to people with an ASU account, while public links can be viewed by anyone who has the link. When students submit ASU Portfolio work through a Canvas assignment, the submitted work is available to the student and the faculty and/or TAs working in that course without requiring the student to create a separate share link. Before students share a portfolio publicly, encourage them to review it for personal, course or other information they may not want available outside ASU.
Student ownership
- Portfolios can continue beyond a single assignment or course. When designing a required portfolio activity, consider where students should have flexibility to select artifacts, organize their work and reflect in their own voice while still meeting the learning goals or assessment requirements of the activity.
Resources
Explore ASU resources for learning how to use ASU Portfolio, working with portfolio templates and connecting portfolio activities with Canvas.
ASU resources
- ASU Portfolio video tutorials.
Explore short tutorials for signing in and setting up your profile, creating portfolios and projects, adding file and link artifacts and using portfolio templates. Faculty can also share this playlist with students who need guidance using ASU Portfolio. - ASU Portfolio: Templates.
Learn how Template Administrators can create, customize and share portfolio templates to support students, courses and academic programs. - ASU Portfolio Canvas LTI.
Learn how to create ASU Portfolio assignments in Canvas, connect portfolio templates and review student submissions.
Get support
Need technical help?
For problems accessing or using ASU Portfolio, contact the ASU Experience Center.
For Canvas-specific course, configuration or administrative issues, contact ASU LMS Support.
Want to explore ways to use this tool in your course?
Learning Experience (LX) offers workshops and consultations where you can explore how ASU Portfolio or other enterprise technologies might support your teaching goals.