Digital Initiatives
Student Portfolios using WordPress
UniSQ offers the WordPress platform through Create@UniSQ as the preferred choice for student online portfolios. Personal sites for portfolio development can be open to the public or private to the user, or protected for assessment purposes.
WordPress the preferred portfolio platform!
As of July 1, 2023, the ePortfolio (Mahara) platform will not be available for NEW users.
It is replaced with Create@UniSQ, a service that:
- Utilises WordPress as the preferred platform for portfolios and websites
- Is fully supported technically and pedagogically by the Learning and Teaching Futures edtech team and CampusPress, the outsourced host
- Supports Employability and WIL and enhances digital literacy
- Provides transferability upon graduation
Create@UniSQ Updates for 2023-2024
In the video above Julie shares updates and resources on the Create@UniSQ website.
A self-serve WordPress site option is now available for those wanting to use the WordPress platform for academic and research purposes (staff and students)
Not sure how to implement student (online) portfolios into your course or program? We have a For Staff section on Create@UniSQ with lots of details!
Embedding WordPress Student Portfolios into your Course and Program
Watch the introduction video below and read more on the For Staff page on Create@UniSQ.
Read about Create@UniSQ, WordPress and Student Portfolios
Click on the posts below to read the most recent blog posts from the Create@UniSQ project. You can also access the main Conversations Blog here.
TechDem CoP March 2024: Portfolios
What a fabulous session we had at our most recent Technology Demonstrators Community of Practice Event, focusing on e-portfolios in education, the benefits of reflection and the challenges of implementation.
Student Portfolio SIG – Exploring ideas
Our first Student Portfolio SIG for 2023 explored the NEWLY developed Create@UniSQ website, rubrics for portfolio assessment and the role played by generative AI text, and taking a program approach to portfolios
Getting a handle on assessment and student ePortfolios
How do you embed assessment into student ePortfolios? At the Technology Demonstrators ePortfolio SIG meeting today we grappled with approaches to embeddded assessment.
Applying the Gibbs Reflective Cycle for ePortfolio development
Conversations: Student Portfolio SIGApplying the Gibbs Reflective Cycle for ePortfolio development...
Exploring the affordance of student portfolios – ePortfolio SIG
Why an ePortfolio Special Interest Group (SIG)? As a sub-group of Technology Demonstrators, the ePortfolio SIG aims to explore, share, and co-create understandings around the affordances of student portfolios.
Student online portfolios to support reflective learning and employability
An important focus of the student online portfolio initiatives at USQ is student employability through sharing evidence of growth and reflective learning.
Current TechDem Digital Initiatives
Engageli Project
Engageli is an online learning environment that aligns with virtual campus objectives. It supports synchronous, asynchronous and hybrid modes.
UniSQ have committed to roll out this tool academics and courses over the next three years.
Cadmus Pilot
Cadmus is an online assessment tool can be used for a range of written assessment tasks like essays, literature reviews, lab reports, tutorial activities, and exam alternatives
TechDems is supporting the exploration of Cadmus in 2024.
Global Learning @ UniSQ
We are currently scoping and planning a Global Learning Pilot for 2025, that will enable students to engage with diverse cultures and perspectives through online collaborative learning platforms.
Nolej Pilot
Nolej helps educational designers and course coordinators to rapidly generate interactive learning material.
TechDems is supporting the exploration of Nolej in 2024
Student Portfolios using Create@UniSQ
TechDems successfully piloted student WordPress Portfolios via the Create@USQ portal in 2021-23.
As of June 2023 this is an ongoing project rollout for all programs, disciplines and courses as required.
