Creating posts in class portfolio is a powerful means to document your learning journey, drawing evidences from daily classroom activities throughout the year. Moreover, these posts can be easily shared with your peers, enabling seamless collaboration and sharing of ideas.

As a student, you can effortlessly create portfolio posts right from your Toddle classroom.

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From the home page of your Toddle Student App, navigate to the preferred class and tap on the ‘Portfolio’ section in the bottom pane. On the landing page, you can scroll through your class portfolio feed and get a comprehensive view of all the posts where you have been tagged.

You can create a portfolio post on Toddle in just a few easy steps.

Step 1: Start by clicking the red ‘plus’ button in the top right corner of the page.

Depending on the portfolio type selected by your school admin for the grade you are currently in, you will see different options for creating a portfolio post. Your school admin can choose between two types of portfolios:

1. Senior portfolio

The Senior portfolio provides a simplified and efficient user experience for senior students, focusing on direct access to media functionalities. It allows easy access to adding photos, voice recordings, links, videos, files, and more.

2. Junior portfolio

The Junior portfolio is a vibrant and colourful dashboard designed for younger students, offering intuitive media selection. It includes options for photos, voice recordings, videos, files, notes, links, workbooks, and photo collages.

💡Please note that the options you see in Junior portfolio may vary depending on the media types selected by your school administrator.
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💡Please note that if you are capturing the audio directly using the mic icon, you can only add one audio file per post; to add a new one, you must first remove the existing audio file.

In both the portfolio types, based on the type of post you wish to create, choose an appropriate option to upload content. You can add up to 20 media attachments when creating a post. In case you are adding files via Google Drive, you can choose to add them as a link or file. If you share them as a link, make sure that the linked file has appropriate access. In case you are sharing them as a file, any changes made to the file after posting in the portfolio will not reflect in the attached file.

Once you have uploaded the media attachments, you can reorder them to ensure your content flows perfectly. To reorder, hover over the media card to click and drag.

To remove any media files, use the 'trash' icon, as shown below. You can also add more attachments to include multiple media types in a single post.

Step 2: Once you have uploaded the media, perform the following actions:

Use the writing space to add remarks or descriptions for your post.

Use the pencil icon to tag your fellow classmates to the post. Please note that you can only tag students from your own class in the post.

💡You will be able to tag your peers in portfolio posts only when the corresponding settings is enabled by your school administrator/coordinator.

Next, you can tag existing folders to organize your portfolio post. Later, you can use these folders to filter relevant posts.

💡You will be able to tag folders in portfolio posts only when the corresponding settings is enabled by your school administrator/coordinator.

Tagging your post to relevant learning elements can be useful if you want to be assessed on specific learning goals. There are four ways to tag learning elements in your post:

💡You will be able to tag learning goals in portfolio posts only when the corresponding settings are enabled by your school administrator/coordinator.

Let’s say you want to tag learning goals from a learning experience or assessment. After selecting the relevant learning experience or assessment, you can tag the associated learning goals using ‘+’.

From here, you can easily navigate through each learning goal, make individual selections, or choose all of the goals. Additionally, you can use keywords to search and refine your selection. Click on ‘Done’ to save the changes.

Step 3: After you have finished creating your post, you can either save it as a draft or send it for the teacher’s approval.

💡 If your admin has not mandated teacher approval for publishing posts, you will see an option to either save the post as a draft or publish it directly.

💡 Teacher’s approval for publishing a portfolio post is required only when this setting is enabled by your school administrator/coordinator.

If approval is necessary, any posts awaiting the teacher's approval will be clearly highlighted with a colour-coded banner at the top, as shown below. You will have the ability to edit or delete the post while it is pending approval. The yellow banner will automatically disappear once your teacher approves the post.

Once the teacher has approved the post, your post will start appearing in the class portfolio feed and all students tagged to it will be able to view, like and comment on it.

If your teacher returns the post, you will receive a notification and the post will be highlighted with a color-coded banner at the top. Additionally, any comments from your teacher will be included. To make revisions, you can use the three-dot menu and then resubmit the post for approval.

💡You will be able to edit your published posts only when the corresponding settings are enabled by your school administrator/coordinator. When editing a post, you have the flexibility to modify media attachments and other attributes such as the caption, tagged students, learning elements and folders.

Within the 'Portfolio' tab of your class, you can view all the published posts where you have been tagged. If you are looking for specific published posts, you can utilize the 'Filter by folder' feature by clicking on the funnel icon at the top. From there, you can select the desired folder to browse all the posts tagged within it. Similarly, you can explore the portfolio posts of other students by clicking on their name under 'Filter by student'.

💡Please note that the ability to view other students' posts is subject to the settings enabled by your school administrator/coordinator.

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