Hi Martin,

 

It may be possible to overcome the limitation of System Admins only being able to create templates by creating a custom system role which has access to the portfolios section in System Admin. This can then be allocated to relevant members of staff. You may also be to limit the availability of this further by using the hierarchy system provided as part of the community engagement system.

 

Just a thought…

 

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From: Boon, Chris [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 02 September 2016 16:57
Subject: Re: Bb Portfolio tool

 

Hi Andy and Martin,

 

We’ve been using the ‘new’ Portfolios for the last couple of years, but only on a limited range of courses, mostly in our teacher training department.  I agree with your comment about the template admin permissions Andy; at the moment, with such limited usage, it’s feasible for me to create the templates, but this restriction would prevent any wider scale adoption.

 

Regarding the sharing of portfolios via snapshots, I agree this is quite confusing – this always has to be explained to our users.  It seems that they’ve been developed around a model of a student creating their portfolio, and then formally submitting them for assessment via an Assignment (which is a nice feature), but we use the Journals much more where the instructor needs to frequently monitor the student’s progress.

 

As I think I’ve mentioned before, I believe the Blackboard Portfolios are a very good basic tool, but haven’t quite been developed enough to be used effectively – if there was a “v1.1” release of them to fix a few bugs and improve these work flows they could be a very effective learning tool.

 

Best

Chris

 

From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andy Turner
Sent: 02 September 2016 09:27
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Subject: Re: Bb Portfolio tool

 

Martin

 

This was one of the issues we identified when deciding not to promote Blackboard Portfolios when we upgraded last summer.

 

I see that I lodged an Enhancement Request at the time – I should probably place this on the Blackboard Community site now.

 

Edit rights to Portfolio templates to be an assignable privilege

 

Portfolios in 2014 Releases.

 

Only SysAdmins have the ability to create templates, and it doesn’t seem to be a privilege which can be assigned to other admin roles. I would like to have the ability to assign editing privileges to other Sys roles.So that I could create a new Portfolios Admin role – or, even better, for there to be a Portfolios Admin role, with template editing rights, as a default system role.

 

In addition, it would be useful to be able to limit particular templates to Hierarchy nodes. That way one could have departmental or School Portfolio admins, creating templates for use by students in that school or department. And students creating a portfolio would see a smaller, more relevant set of templates to choose from.

 

 

Someone asked a question about this at https://community.blackboard.com/message/4363 - but got no replies.

 

The other reservation we had about Portfolios was the way users share them: you share a snapshot, which means that the viewer doesn’t see any updates (the user has to delete the share and then recreate it to share an updated version). I can understand a certain logic in that – students can write draft content without it being visible to their tutor. But most of our use cases e.g. for work placement logs, require tutors to be able to continually review portfolios. That’s how Blackboard Portfolio sharing used to work, it’s how Campus Pack sharing works, and it’s much simpler for students to understand, I think.

 

all the best

 

Andy

 

From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Martin Lynch
Sent: 31 August 2016 16:41
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Subject: Bb Portfolio tool

 

We’re looking at the Bb portfolio tool – one obvious drawback is that the creation of templates is a sys-admin only privilege (why?) is anyone else using them and how have you worked around this?

 

 

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