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The Benefits of Digital Platforms for Student Portfolio Management

By Scott Hanson | Blog, Digital Publishing, eBook solution | 0 comment | 21 February, 2024 | 0

The impact of education and novel pedagogies can only be measured in one way – to assess how much the students have learned.

However, to keep track of student knowledge and to ensure that they are able to grasp the lesson optimally, some assistance is required. This is where student portfolios can truly transform the way teachers or educators enhance the learning outcomes from a lesson.

Additionally, digital technologies can aid them with effective organization and management of the portfolio of hundreds of students at a time, and without errors. Several other advantages ensue from implementing a portfolio management system, which this blog will cover in addition to other interesting topics.

Table of Contents

I. What are Student Portfolios?

II. Benefits of Leveraging Digital Platforms for Managing Student Portfolios

  1. Enhanced Engagement
  2. True Assessment
  3. Learning Personalization
  4. Improved Feedback Loops

III. Use Cases

  1. Display of Learnings
  2. Talent Showcase
  3. Special Education

IV. To Conclude

What are Student Portfolios?

A student portfolio can be many different things, depending on what a teacher needs to focus on with respect to their students. In general, however, a student portfolio consists of the following information about every student:

  • Learning processes for each individual student.
  • Assessment and analytics of each student.
  • Talents and achievements of each student.
  • Attendance and performance of each student.

Earlier, student portfolios used to be paper-based. However, with the plethora of digital technologies available today, student portfolios have become digital and much more easily manageable as well.

Let’s understand how digital platforms are advantageous for teachers in student portfolio management.

Benefits of Leveraging Digital Platforms for Managing Student Portfolios

Technological adoption has enabled the modern educator to properly plan and design the right educational curriculum for all students alike. In addition to helping them be inclusive in their pedagogies, digital platforms also help with several other learning aspects through the management of student portfolios.

Below are some advantages of using digital platforms for student portfolio management:

1. Enhanced Engagement

Digital platforms like KITABOO provide teachers with the tools to create interactive and engaging digital spaces where students can showcase their work freely.

These platforms enable the teachers to curate a collection of the best aspects and works of each student into a portfolio, highlighting their journey.

This is an excellent way to enhance engagement and creativity in the students in several ways:

  • Students get the opportunity to interact with gamified digital modules.
  • They can take ownership of their portfolio and strive to create better and improved results that are worthy to be showcased.

Digital platforms provide a digital stage where students can see their learning progress.

2. True Assessment

Ideally, student assessments are supposed to be holistic. They are supposed to cover the overall progress of a student across all their developmental spheres.

The traditional form of assessment, however, focuses more on academic performance, falling short of the integrated assessment approach.

With digital platforms that showcase student portfolios, it becomes possible for teachers to assess more than just a student’s academic achievements. They can focus on creativity, extra-curricular talents, achievements outside of subjects, attitude, behavior, etc., through creating digital portfolios.

Here, students can express themselves aside from their academia and truly come together for a holistic learning experience.

3. Learning Personalization

Digital platforms are integrated with analytics and data visualizations. When a teacher connects student portfolios to such a digital platform, it helps them extract key insights about the learning journey of every student.

Such data is pivotal in helping teachers personalize the learning experience for students who require a little adjustment in the pedagogical approach.

For example, for a student with reading difficulties, the portfolios would reflect the time they take to progress through a lesson. The teachers can then take it up through a discussion with the student and their parents whether they would like an adjustment to be made for improved learning and comprehension.

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4. Improved Feedback Loops

Digital platforms enable direct-to-device sharing of student portfolios with the parents. If the school has a platform, portal, or app for teacher-parent communication, the same channels can be used to share student portfolios as well.

The parents are kept in the loop of their children’s learning journeys and can also provide prompt feedback or handy tips to teachers that enable them to manage their children better.

Digital platforms enable proactive sharing of information and remove communication barriers between teachers, parents, and peers.

Use Cases

Student portfolios have multiple functions – they can be customized in any which way that enables a teacher to provide improved instruction to their students. There are three most common ways in which teachers like to leverage the capabilities of a digital student portfolio.

Each of these ways helps highlight a unique aspect of a student’s learning journey:

Learning Progress

Teachers use student portfolios to display the learning process of a student for a specific unit of study, or for a lesson, or subject.

For example, teachers may include notes from an activity, the performance during the activity, and the follow-up process after the activity has been completed to mark a student’s learning process.

Talent Showcase

Digital portfolios are an excellent way for teachers to showcase the extra-curricular talents of each student.

For example, teachers can put together a creativity showcase where a student has performed exceptionally in creativity display across various aspects of learning.

Special Education

Teachers also use digital student portfolios to highlight the special education that a student may require alongside the traditional pedagogical methods. It helps teachers keep track of the needs of each student individually and cater to them effectively.

To Conclude

Education has benefited tremendously from the advent of technology and digitality. When it comes to providing efficient learning experiences to all students alike, teachers like to leverage digital platforms that level the playing field.

By providing better opportunities to collaborate, assess, and enhance the quality of education, digital platforms for student portfolio management add value to education.

If teachers wish to create an engaging, fun learning environment for students digitally, KITABOO can provide the groundwork for setting up interactive portfolios. To understand how KITABOO can help, visit the website.

To learn more, connect with us now!

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Scott Hanson is the AVP of Business Development at Hurix. He is an experienced Business Development & Publishing Technology professional with expertise in dealing with Societies & Non-Profits.

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