🎯 Purpose

The Student Portfolio is a dedicated space in Otus to collect and showcase student work over time. It serves as a longitudinal record of student growth, housing assessments, blog posts, audio/video recordings, and file uploads, all in one place. Portfolios are visible to teachers, students, and family accounts, and both educators and students can contribute items.

💡 Who is this for? Teachers use the Student Portfolio to track individual student progress and share work with families. Administrators can access portfolios through student profiles to support building- and district-level conversations about growth.

💡 Why Use This Feature?

The Student Portfolio helps educators and families stay connected to student growth across the school year and beyond.

✅ Collect student work in a single, persistent location that travels with the student from year to year.
✅ Give families meaningful visibility into their child's learning through a shared view of portfolio items.
✅ Capture multiple forms of evidence — not just assessments, but also blogs, recordings, and uploaded files.
✅ Support student ownership by allowing students to add their own work to their portfolio.
✅ Use portfolio artifacts in conferences, reporting cycles, or growth conversations.

🔑 Key Features

Feature	What It Does
Multi-Format Content	Store assessments, blog posts, audio/video recordings, and file uploads all in one place.
Year-to-Year Persistence	Portfolio items stay with the student across school years; nothing is lost at the end of the year.
Shared Visibility	Teachers, students, and family accounts can all view portfolio items.
Student Contributions	Students can add their own items to their portfolio, supporting ownership and reflection.
Educator Contributions	Teachers can add items to a student's portfolio directly from the student profile.
Quick Preview + Full View	The Content tab shows the three most recent items; click the Portfolio title to see the full collection.

⚙️ How It Works

The Student Portfolio lives within the Student Profile, under the Content tab. From there, you'll see a preview of the three most recently added items along with any blog posts. Clicking the Portfolio title opens the full portfolio view.

Any item in the portfolio can be clicked to view in greater detail. Teachers can see details for all assessments, but can only view the contents of assessments they assigned.

There is no limit to the number of items that can be added to a portfolio. File size limits may apply for uploads.

💡 Tip: Portfolio items are visible to family accounts, making the portfolio a great tool for family engagement and conference preparation.

🚀 Getting Started

For Teachers:

Step 1: Navigate to your Classes module and select the Students tab.
Step 2: Select the correct class from the dropdown menu.
Step 3: Click on the student whose portfolio you want to view.
Step 4: From the student profile, select the Content tab to access the portfolio.

For Administrators:

Step 1: Navigate to the Home module and select the Students tab, or access the student via the Classes module as described above.
Step 2: Search for a specific student and click their student tile.
Step 3: From the student profile, select the Content tab to access the portfolio.