Artefact |
An Artefact is a document that supports an experience or provides evidence of your skills and achievements. It could be an example of your work (e.g. a written assignment), evidence of an achievement (e.g. a scanned certificate of merit), or something that supports an experience you've reflected on in your ePortfolio (e.g. a photo of you performing on stage). |
Experience |
A reflective comment about events or activities in which you have actively participated at university, at work, in the community, or in your personal life. |
View |
A particular selection of the experiences and artefacts in your ePortfolio. You can create different Views, tailoring each one to a specific audience or purpose. |
Release |
A mechanism you can use to provide other people with access to an ePortfolio View. |
Capabilities |
A set of attributes that specify the expected learning outcomes for any graduate, regardless of discipline area. These attributes are defined by a set of skill areas. |
Skill Area |
A broad area that describes a set of skill types. The Student ePortfolio skill areas are:
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Problem solving / critical thinking
- Life management / lifelong learning
- Technical / professional / research
- Managing / organising
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- Social / ethical responsibility
- Leadership
- Creativity / design
- Initiative / enterprise
- other (an extra area for you to define)
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Setting |
Defines the environment in which an experience occurred - at university, at work, in the community, or in your personal life. |
Visitor |
Someone to whom you have released an ePortfolio View. Currently, you can release Views to QUT students and QUT staff members. The facility to release Views to external visitors is included in plans for future development. |
Export |
The process of saving your ePortfolio to CD or your own computer as an HTML file. You can then open this file in a word processor for further editing or printing. |
