Technical colleges and their faculties produce bright, motivated and skilled students ready to enter a trade or transition to a larger university. A lot of hard work goes into a technical college certification, both inside and outside the classroom. ePortfolios can help students collect, organize, and showcase this work, while administrators can harness an ePortfolio’s convenient features for efficient assessments and more.
Learn more about the advantages of using ePortfolios at a technical college.
ePortfolios allow individuals and organizations to create a web-based portfolio in a website-like format. These online portfolios are easy to share via link or integrated share buttons, and users can send and access them across devices for greater availability. ePortfolios can have one or several components, pages, and data types.
These digital portfolios are especially useful in a technical college setting. For example, a design student can upload images or renderings of each design they’ve completed over the term. By the end of their program, they’ll have a cohesive portfolio that they can present during job placement or for university admissions programs. Similarly, a communications major will have an easy-to-read file of all their reports, essays, research projects, and arguments throughout their education. Later, they can use these ePortfolios for apprenticeships, internship applications, and more.
Technical college ePortfolios are:
ePortfolios for technical colleges present an innovative way to demonstrate how a student has grasped the course material. These online portfolios can even document technical skills a student learned and act as a resume.
Students and administrators can use ePortfolios for multiple purposes during and beyond the school term.
The ability to showcase previous work is critical across industries, especially for students submitting new applications or those applying to competitive positions.
With ePortfolios, web designers can link directly to the sites they’ve built, coders can link to the code programs they’ve designed, and those studying the arts can send easy-click links to a complete collection of their works across mediums.
Students can use ePortfolios to demonstrate competency in their area of study. Users can include several things in their portfolios, like:
Faculty can also use ePortfolios to demonstrate their own competency inside the classroom. Their scalable, digital format allows for instant feedback that administrators can easily compile, organize, and take action on. On a larger scale, school boards and districts can use data from ePortfolio evaluations to generate and compare reports for things like teacher licensure and funding.
Some courses or certifications might require students to collect, analyze, and present what they have studied, researched, or completed throughout the term. ePortfolios are a simpler alternative to hefty binders, and students can add to or adjust the content once the course has finished.
The digital nature of this portfolio method also means students can submit their ePortfolio when complete without turning in any physical documents, which is perfect for online-based programs and distance learning.
The more a portfolio can tell a student’s story, the better that portfolio will work in their favor. An ePortfolio provides a single space to demonstrate all the facets that make your students and administrators unique — who they are, what they value, what experience they bring to the table, their special goals, and any niche industry interests.
Online portfolios for technical colleges showcase sides of an individual that might not otherwise have an opportunity to shine inside the classroom, such as:
Students can also use their ePortfolio to gather formal evaluation results and recommendations from industry professionals, managers, and teachers to support their job search and show a complete example of their abilities.
You already know your students are capable of hard work and high achievements inside the classroom — ePortfolios are the perfect way to collect those achievements and show how they connect to all other areas of a student’s life, including their talents, interests, and outside experiences.
Community and technical schools provide strong foundations for today’s workforce, and Watermark has the digital solutions you need to lift up your technical college’s administration and students. We’ve built solutions that help your team with everything from course evaluations and faculty success to student learning and educational planning or assessment projects.
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