Keep a record of all the great work your students are doing and showcase their achievements with Student Portfolios.

Student Portfolios allow teachers to save students’ best work from year to year. When enabled, both teachers and students can choose what to add - including:

This creates a meaningful collection that highlights progress and success over time.

Parents also have access to their child’s portfolio, helping them stay up to date with their child’s best work. Teachers can use the portfolio as a helpful reference when preparing for parent meetings or discussions.

Showbie portfolios are organized chronologically, based on the date each piece of work is added and can be assorted by ascending or descending date. Teachers can only view student work that has been submitted through classes they teach.

The portfolio view can be grouped by Class, Subject, or Year Group.

Use the Group option in the top navigation of a student’s portfolio to change how items are organized and displayed.

Changing a class’s settings affects how portfolio items are grouped. Updating the class name, subject, or year group will change how saved items appear in the portfolio.

The Student-Led Portfolios setting allows students to add their own submissions from a class directly into their portfolios.
Teachers can still add files to student portfolios at any time, regardless of this setting.

To turn Student-Led Portfolios on or off:

In a student’s portfolio, teachers and co-teachers can quickly navigate to the original class and assignment where a saved document or comment came from.
This feature is only available to users who have access to the class and assignment.

The steps are the same as on iPad. Instead of tapping and holding, click the three-dot menu in the top-right corner of a saved item.
The icon appears when you hover your cursor over the item.

You can add work to portfolios in two ways – either from the assignment itself or from in the file viewer toolbar.

Alternatively, you can swipe left on the document or post to reveal a star button that will also add it to the portfolio.

Removing work from a portfolio does not delete the original file. It will still be visible and available in the assignment folder.
Students can only remove items from their own portfolios if they were the ones who added them.

Alternative:

Showbie makes it easy for students to celebrate accomplishments by downloading their entire portfolio to share with family and friends. Teachers can also export student portfolios by class, subject, or year group, allowing key work to be revisited and shared.

You will be asked if you'd like to include teacher's feedback, the student's work/annotations, and/or any shared instructions.

The Portfolio Export file will be prepared in the background, and a download button will appear at the top of their portfolio when ready. This may take a few minutes. You'll then have 24 hours to download the export file before it expires.

The export file is a ZIP container that will include either individual files or folders of files depending on how the portfolio is grouped in Showbie when exported. Up to 500 items can be exported at time and included in this file.

Use the Group icon in the top-left of the portfolio view to change document groupings to Class, Subject, or Year Group.

When viewing a specific class, subject, or year group, Export All will only include items from that level. For example, exporting from a particular class will include only that class’s items.

Depending on the state of the class, portfolio items may not be visible.

Saved items in a student portfolio can still be accessed after a class is archived or if a student is blocked from the class. However, deleting or locking an assignment will hide any saved portfolio items from that assignment.