Showcase excellent work using Student Portfolios ⭐️

Portfolios can be used to save students’ best work from year to year! Teachers and students (when enabled) can choose what to add to the portfolio – whether it’s a file, photo, voice note, or a perfect grade in an assignment.

Parents also have access to their child's portfolio, so they can stay up-to-date with their child’s best work. Teachers can use the portfolio when collecting material to reference during parent meetings!

Showbie portfolios are organized chronologically based on the date each piece of work was added. Teachers can only view student work that has been submitted through classes they teach.

While in a student's assignment folder, you can also tap the star icon to view the portfolio of that student.

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 the way items are sorted.

Changing a class's settings affects how portfolio items are grouped. You can update the class name, subject, or year group to change how saved items appear in the portfolio.

The Student-Led Portfolios setting gives students permission to add submissions from their class directly into their portfolios. Teachers will still have the ability to add files to student portfolios regardless of the setting. Here’s how you can turn on/off this setting:

In a student’s portfolio, teachers and co-teachers can easily navigate to the class and assignment where a saved document or comment originated. This feature is only available to those with access to the specific class and assignment.

Alternatively, you can swipe left on a saved portfolio item and select the arrow icon.

The steps are the same for web as they are for iPad, but instead of tapping and holding, click on the 3-dot icon that appears in the top right of a saved item. The icon will appear when the cursor is hovering.

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.

If work is removed from a portfolio, the original file will still be visible and available from within the assignment folder. Students can only remove work from their own portfolios if that student (not a teacher) added the item.

Alternatively, you can swipe left on the document or post to reveal a crossed-out-star button that will also remove it from the portfolio.

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

To export a student's entire portfolio, navigate to their portfolio and select the 3-dot icon in the top right corner. Then select Export All.

You will be asked if you'd like to include teacher's feedback, the student's 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.

⬇️ If your Portfolio Export file is ready to download, the Export All option will not be selectable. You'll need to close the 'Your Portfolio Export is Ready' menu by tapping the X icon next to the Download button.

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

When navigating within a specific class, subject, or year group, using the "Export All" option will only export items from that level. For example, if you're viewing a particular class, the export file will include only the items from that class.

📁 If there are more than 500 items in the portfolio export, you'll need to select a folder within one of these groups such that there will be less than 500 items in the export file.

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 even if the student is blocked from the class. Note that deleting or locking an assignment will hide any saved portfolio items from that assignment.

🚨 *Deleting or locking an assignment will hide these from portfolio