How We Use ePortfolios at Bay Path University

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An ePortfolio is an electronic collection of your work and other items you choose to include. ePortfolios have two main uses:

A learning tool that allows you to record and reflect on what you've learned in and out of the classroom.
A presentation tool that highlights your accomplishments to potential employers, graduate schools, scholarship and grant-giving bodies.

At Bay Path, the emphasis is on ePortfolio as a learning tool. You begin your ePortfolio in your first year and continue to add work until you are ready to graduate. You may be amazed to see how you have grown and changed over your years here! Then -- with your work collected in one place -- it will be easy to select the pieces you are proudest of and put them in a presentation portfolio for potential employers or graduate school.

Your ePortfolio reflects who you are and your whole experience at Bay Path University.

What's in it for you?

Brings your work together in one place, making it easy to look back at what you've learned and how you've grown and changed.
Helps you plan for your personal, educational, and career goals.
Support and choice: some of your courses may suggest important assignments to include, and you choose other representative work, personal statements, and campus/community activities.
Fun! Add multimedia photos, videos, animated presentations in addition to written work.

The ePortfolio Template

The Bay Path institutional ePortfolio template organizes the knowledge and skills you acquire throughout college into institutional outcomes -- what Bay Path expects students will gain from their time here -- and groups the outcomes into three broad categories. Click the link or the image to review the abilities that demonstrate your attainment of those outcomes in each category

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The template in Pathbrite, our ePortfolio software, presents these categories as sections where you will collect your work. The sections are:

Learn

In this section, you can collect, reflect, and showcase evidence of your academic and intellectual development and your personal effectiveness development during your time at Bay Path.

Engage

Use this section to collect, reflect, and showcase evidence of your campus and community engagement while at Bay Path.
Connect

Use this section to collect, reflect, and showcase your career readiness and ability to make connections across the curriculum and beyond. Include your educational life plan and capstone project.

Reflective Essay

In this section, collect the final reflective essays you write for your WELL classes and other courses as assigned.

Badges

This section is a place to store any badges you have earned. Badges are digital credentials that signify your accomplishments. Bay Path defines the competencies you must have to earn a particular badge. Once you have completed a project, demonstrated mastery of a skill, or documented your experience—both inside and outside of the classroom—you can be awarded a badge. The badge itself is a digital image that links to documentation of how you earned it: criteria, work examples, date earned, the institution that awarded it.