Nist Eportfolioguide

The purpose of this document is to help you and your students manage their E-portfolio’s. 1. Brief overview of the E-Portfolio 2. How to save files and in which format 3. How to edit the e-portfolio and add hyperlinks to documents

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The E-portfolio has six different sections. Home page  Language Arts  Mathematics  Unit of Inquiry  Specialists  Photo Gallery

The only part that should be edited is the ‘white’ section. Please leave the font, text size and color the same.

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Saving files, where and how? As a standard structure of saving files, a suggestion is to save the files in the following structure: SubjectArea_TitleofWork_StudentName

Files should be saved in the appropriate places for the subject areas and must be in their e-portfolio folder. Please convert all Microsoft office documents to PDF’s (e.g. Word/Excel/Publisher & PowerPoint files).

Saving as PDF’s in: Word, Excel and PowerPoint:

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In Publisher, click on ‘Save As’ and change the ‘Type’.

Editing the E-portfolio with FrontPage FrontPage can be found by clicking on Start-> All Programs -> Microsoft Office -> Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Note that FrontPage is installed on all student laptops (Y5 & Y6) and all computers in the labs.

To edit the E-Portfolio files, in front page go to: File -> Open and select the applicable files from the e-portfolio folder. See the screenshot below: