HBO-ICT: Portflow Basics

Collecting evidence

Evidence items are the products you create during your studies. These can be reports, presentations, videos, photos, websites, apps, and so on. You add them to your portfolio to show what you have made and what you have learned. Depending on the type of evidence it is useful to check how you should add it. After creating an evidence item you will want to add a description, reflection, analysis, and so on, so add a description to the evidence item. You will also link evidence to learning outcomes. Optionally, when you work with different versions of an evidence item, you can add a note to the version.

Add evidence

You can add different types of evidence to your Portflow portfolio. When you choose to add evidence you get several options. You can add new evidence via the 'My Evidence' tab or from a collection.

Types of evidence

Evidence can come from different sources. Think of programmed code, written research, presentations, videos, photos, websites, apps, and so on.

Brightspace assignment

Assignments you have worked on and submitted via DLO can be imported into Portflow.

Add link

You can also add products from GitLab; always use a permalink so the version stays linked.

Free text

For reflections without a product, for example; do not write full reports here.

Describe evidence

For yourself later on, for your teachers, or for the assessment committee at the end of the semester, it helps to guide a reader through your evidence. That is why it is important to give a clear description of your evidence item. You can do this under 'Evidence description'.

Write about the evidence item: what you made, why you made it, and what you learned from creating it. This is also a good place to reflect on your work and to show what you have learned.

Link evidence to learning outcomes

In Portflow you collect evidence to show where you stand in relation to the learning outcomes. That is why it is important to link evidence to these learning outcomes (goals). You can link an evidence item to one or more learning outcomes; ask your teachers if you are unsure which learning outcomes to link it to.

Add a note to evidence

In Portflow you can update evidence items, which creates a new version of the evidence. To clearly explain these updates it is important to add a note to the new version. Go to the evidence item and, behind the 'Add new version' button, choose 'Edit version note'.