History: ePortfolio

ePortfolio introduction

Read this as an introduction: http://www.imsglobal.org/ep/ (brochure in English, Spanish, French and Norwegian)

But in short, some people consider it as a folder where the evidences of learning are gathered together by each student, enabling the teacher to grade students progress in the course.

Requirements list

Three levels of permissions:

1. A section for whole class contributions (kind of folder with perms for the whole class)
2. Another for group work (several groups per class)
3. Another for each individual (several people in a group)

Needed features

• Blog, for gathering individual's thinkings on what he/she learned on a session, etc.
• Wiki, for writing collaboratively among students for group or class folder.
• Forum
• Graphs (JGRaphPAd or similar, plus some Mind Mapping software for conceptual maps)
• Autoavaluating/Peer review
• Exercicies (Quizees, with improvements)
• Categories, to enable categorize content by habilties, types of work

(it'll be further explained in short. Xavi)