Hi all,
I’m not sure if anyone else has seen or
experienced this problem…
We introduced Basic Portfolios to a group of postgraduate
students this week: they were asked by their tutor to put documents in their
Content Collection, display them in their portfolios (using the “Add
Content” button so the links to them display in the main menu) and then
share the portfolios with the tutor.
What the tutor noticed and reported back to me was
that some of the links to the documents in her students’ portfolios did
not display in the usual bold format and could not be clicked. The link titles
displayed but only as plain text. There didn’t seem to be any pattern to
this; while in some portfolios, all the “links” were displayed in
this way, in others, some of the links worked while others didn’t and
then further portfolios we checked did not have the problem at all.
After spending some time doing some testing, I seem
to have found a pattern.
If the student adds content to the portfolio and then
shares it, there’s no problem; all the links will work fine. However, any
content added to the portfolio after
sharing, will not be accessible to the recipients. Unless that is you actively
give the recipient individual permission to open the file – then the link
is activated!
I should point out that, to my knowledge, we
didn’t experience these problems last year.
I was just wondering if anyone had experienced
something similar. If not and you’re planning on using the Basic
Portfolio feature soon, it might be worth doing some testing to see if you get
the same result. If it’s not clear I’m happy to explain further and
send screenshots.
Any feedback would be welcome.
Guy
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Guy Pursey
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