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Using Portfolio at Home - Students and Parents
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Home Mode Information for Parents

Introduction

Portfolio is an online classroom tool that helps students capture and save evidence of their learning. Students can now use the Portfolio app at home to take pictures or videos of their work and record their thoughts and reflections.  The app includes an animated helper that can be used to take younger students through the capturing process step-by-step.  

Portfolio evidence can be collected from year to year so that students progress through their education journey.

Portfolio Home mode

Portfolio Home mode supports young learners, their parents, and their teachers while they are learning from home. To use Portfolio Home, learners have obtained their QR code either provided by the teacher OR logging to the VLE. As learners collect evidence with Brightspace Portfolio Home Mode, the evidence appears on the Approve Evidence page for your class in the Virtual Learning Environment.

Note: QR Codes contain private information and should be treated as such.

Setting up Brightspace Portfolio Home Mode for Students and Parents

  1. Ensure that your device (such as an iPad, iPhone, or Android device) is updated and has the latest version of the Brightspace Portfolio app.
  2. To either download Brightspace Portfolio for the first time or to update it, in the App Store (for iOS) and Google Play Store (for Android), search for Brightspace Portfolio and click Install or Update.
  3. On a computer, as a student, log in to the Student Portal (Virtual Learning Environment) from the OCDSB website: https://ocdsb.ca.
  4. Click on your student’s name and select My Portfolio.

  1. Click Print Class Passcards.

  1. You can either print (A) or download (B) your personal passcard.
    Note: Your student will need to use these passcards every time they log evidence. If you are printing the QR code, print it in high quality and at 100% scale

Using Brightspace Portfolio Home Mode for Students and Parents

  1. On your mobile device, launch the Brightspace Portfolio app.
  2. Select Family Device.

  1. Then choose At Home or At Home with Funster; if selected, the Funster will provide friendly guidance for the learner.
  2. Scan your personal passcard, and begin capturing evidence of your learning.