Creating posts in class portfolio is a powerful means to document your student's learning journey, drawing evidence from their daily classroom activities throughout the year. Moreover, these posts can be easily shared with family members, offering them a glimpse into their child’s academic progress.

As an educator, you can effortlessly create portfolio posts directly from your Toddle classroom.

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To access the class portfolio, select your preferred class from the home page, go to the 'Classroom' section, and then choose 'Portfolio' from the left-hand collapsible menu. At the top, you will find three tabs:

You can easily locate posts across the ‘Published’, ‘Draft’, and ‘In Approval’ sections using the search and filter options at the top. These options allow you to find posts under ‘All Posts’ or within a specific student’s portfolio by selecting the student from the left pane. Let’s explore each of these options in detail.

You can use the search bar to find posts simply by typing specific keywords from the post description. Additionally, it extends to posts created using ‘Note,’ allowing you to search by text entered in the ‘Note’ for relevant posts.

You can use the date range filter to view posts within a selected timeframe. Set your desired start and end dates to focus on posts from a specific period. If you want to clear the selected dates, use the ‘Reset’ option to return to the default view.

You can use the folder filter to view posts tagged to specific folders. Click on the ‘Manage folders’ option within the folder filter to create new folders or modify existing ones.

💡Please note that you can search posts in only one folder at a time

Here, you’ll find a list of existing folders. You can rename them, change their assigned colour, or delete them. To add a new folder, click on the ‘Create a new folder’ option. Once you’ve made your edits or added new folders, click ‘Done’ to save your changes.

You can create a portfolio post on Toddle in just a few easy steps.

Step 1: Click the 'Create post' button located in the top right corner of the page.

Depending on the portfolio type selected by your school admin for the grade you are currently in, you will see different options for creating a portfolio post. Your school admin can choose between two types of portfolios:

1. Senior portfolio

The Senior portfolio provides a simplified and efficient user experience for senior students, focusing on direct access to media functionalities. It allows easy access to adding photos, voice recordings, links, videos, files, and more. You can also upload HEIC and HEIF files.

2. Junior portfolio

The Junior Portfolio is a vibrant and colourful dashboard designed for younger students, offering intuitive media selection. It includes options for photos, voice recordings, videos, files, notes, links, workbooks, and photo collages. You can also upload HEIC and HEIF files.

💡Please note that the options you see in Junior portfolio may vary depending on the media types selected by your school administrator.

In both the portfolio types, based on the type of post you wish to create, choose an appropriate option to upload content. You can add up to 20 media attachments when creating a post. In case you are adding files via Google Drive, you can choose to add them as a link or file. If you share them as a link, make sure that the linked file has appropriate access. In case you are sharing them as a file, any changes made to the file after posting in the portfolio will not reflect in the attached file.

💡Please note that if you are capturing the audio directly using the mic icon, you can only add one audio file per post; to add a new one, you must first remove the existing audio file.

Once you have uploaded the media attachments, you can reorder them to ensure your content flows perfectly. To reorder, hover over the media card and use the arrow icon to click and drag. To remove any media files, use the 'trash' icon, as shown below. You can also add more attachments to include multiple media types in a single post.

Step 2: After you have added the media, perform the following actions:

Use the writing space to add instructions or descriptions for your post.

Utilize the 'Tag students' feature to tag specific students to the post. Please note that you can only tag students from your own class.

Next, you can tag new or existing folders to organize your portfolio post. Later, you can use these folders to filter relevant posts.

To tag standards and practices, click on the plus icon next to ‘Tag standards and practices’ and then select the relevant authorization or evaluation cycle. From there, choose the practices and requirements against which you want to tag the post. This will streamline the process of evidence collection at the time of accreditations.

Tagging your post to relevant learning elements can be useful if you want to assess students on specific learning goals or wish to create evidence of learning in your class. There are four ways to tag learning elements in your post:

Let’s say you want to tag learning goals from a learning experience or assessment. After selecting the relevant learning experience or assessment, you can tag the associated learning goals using the target icon.

From here, you can easily navigate through each learning goal, make individual selections, or choose all of the goals. Additionally, you can use keywords to search and refine your selection. Click on ‘Done’ to save the changes.

While creating/editing portfolio posts, if you wish to link these as evidences of learning to the relevant unit plans, you can do so by tagging it to unit-specific learning goals. Refer to this article to learn more about collecting evidence of learning for your class.

After tagging students and learning goals, the option to rate students on the learning goals will be enabled. To begin rating, simply click on it. Please note that you can only rate students on ATL skills and subject standards .

💡You can rate students on learning goals only when your school admin has enabled this setting.

As an educator, you can rate students on learning goals in two ways:

In this approach, you will assign equal ratings to all students tagged in a specific portfolio post. On the landing page, you will find a list of the tagged learning goals and students to be rated. Here, you can provide a collective rating to these students by selecting the appropriate grade for each learning goal from the list.

In this approach, you will provide a separate rating for each student tagged in the post. To do this, enable the 'Rate students individually' toggle switch located at the top right corner of your screen. From the left-hand panel, you can select any student whom you wish to rate and then choose the appropriate grade for each learning goal.

Furthermore, if the student has been previously rated on the same learning goals, you can easily access their grading history for reference when rating them again. Once you are done, click on the ‘Done’ button to save the ratings.

💡Please note that if you have previously rated students collectively for a specific portfolio post and now choose to rate them individually for the same post, the collective rating you provided will be copied for each student. However, you can still edit the rating for each student individually as needed.

You can choose who sees your portfolio post – share it with your class students and their families, share it only with families, share it only with students, or keep it private for yourself.

Step 3: After you have finished creating your post, you have the option to save it as a draft or publish it. Additionally, you can schedule a specific date and time for the post to be published. Based on your choice, the post will be placed under the appropriate tab on the class portfolio landing page.

Once a post is published, you can interact with it by liking it, adding comments, editing, deleting, or moving it to draft using the options available.

💡 When editing a post, you have the flexibility to modify media attachments and other attributes such as the caption, tagged students, learning elements, folders, and the audience with whom it is shared.

If you wish to backdate an already created post, you can easily do so by editing the post and updating the date and time. By selecting a past date and time, the post will be backdated and reordered in the feed accordingly.

Similarly, if you want to show a portfolio post on a future date, you can select a future date and time. This will schedule your post to appear on the chosen date and time.

If enabled by your school administrator, you can customize the settings for portfolio posts in your class. You will find these settings in the ‘Portfolio settings’ tab within the ‘Class settings’ section as shown below.

Here, you'll see the default values established by the school administrator. If allowed, you can modify these settings using the toggle switch.

💡 Please note that any settings you change here will apply only to the class you are currently in.

The portfolio space on Toddle is a great way to record students’ learning and increase family engagement.

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