1.8 Creating an eportfolio

You will present evidence of your achievements and accomplishments in an e-portfolio. It is essential that you include all the necessary information and make it as easy as possible for someone else to find.

Before beginning to design your e-portfolio, you should get a feel for what is involved by looking at some of those published on the internet.

You need to make sure that you know exactly what it is for and who will be looking at it. In this instance, the intended audience for your e-portfolio is your assessor and the moderator. You will not be there when they are looking at your work so you must make sure that your e-portfolio is self-explanatory and easy to use. You must bear this in mind when deciding on:

•  content

•  home page

•  table of contents

•  evidence with commentary

•  references and copyright information

•  organisation

•  structure

•  navigation

•  links

•  packaging

•  storage medium

•  file formats and compression

•  accessibility.

You must use suitable file formats for your images and documents so that people can view or read them even if they do not have the software used to create them installed on their computers.

You must test your e-portfolio to ensure that it functions properly. You must check that:

•  the content is correct and complete

•  the download speeds are acceptable

•  every link goes where it should with no dead ends

•  the e-portfolio displays and works correctly with different browsers

•  others can use the e-portfolio without help.