This is an Example Activity Post
This is the main body content for the Learning Activity. It is a content area of unlimited length and you can add all kinds of media types. So this demo/guidance post, here are some pointers on how to get started using ubcarts.ca as your eportfolio. You can go to Activities from your dashboard and find this post and delete it or just switch it over to draft so it becomes invisible.
Activities
Think of each learning Activity as a particular thing you have done in a course, in a job, in a community role, in a club or athletic team, or travelling. Your Activity post is just a record of what it was and a reflection on its role for you in your overall learning and development, academic, professional, or personal. It could be an essay, or a video project, or something you prepared while working in a job, or a big game, or a visit to a museum.
You can tag each Activity with Courses and/or Extracurriculars and/or Skills on the right side of the Edit/Create Activity page. The Courses come in automatically from the SIS, so you'll just have to check the box for the course you want (only Arts courses, but you can create your other courses manually). Extracurriculars are things you're engaged in, like a trip, or a sports team, or an internship, or anything else; they work like courses if you want to categorize a bunch of Activities. Like, if you did a co-op term with Raincoast Books, you would put that as the Extracurricular and then if you entered an Activity that was preparing a blurb for an illustrated version of a Harry Potter book, you would tag that activity with the Raincoast Books Co-Op Term Extracurricular.
For example, I've created a course called ARTS999 and categorized this Activity in that Course.
Skills are up to you to define. There may be some auto-populated in there depending on your major or the courses you've taken. We created "Oral Presentation" for you but you can delete it if you wish. For instance you might want to create Skills like "Negotiation", "Performance", or "Statistical Analysis".
I've created a Skill called "Writing Instructions" and categorized this Activity in that Skill. Go into the Activities menu on the left, choose Skills and delete it (unless you think you want this skill!).
You can add Courses and Extracurriculars and Skills on the Edit Activity page or from the left-menu under Activities.
Then, viewers of your Portfolio can see your Activities grouped by Courses or Extracurriculars or Skills using the top menu on the site or clicking on those tags from a post.
There's also the Custom Collection feature. This lets you pull together a bunch of activities under one Collection and add a little blurb for how each of the Activities relates to that Collection. So you can display a set of activities that come from multiple courses or skills but have some common theme. For example, you might have a Sustainability Custom Collection page where you pull in Activities from a Geography course, an Earth and Ocean Science course, an Economics course, a trip you took, and a volunteer job you did. You get to this feature from the Custom Collection Page Builder, bottom left of the menu. We're really proud of how this has turned out -- we hope you find it useful.
Customization
You can do some customization of colours, front page images, and your profile information. Click on Appearance - Customize from the left menu. You'll get into a Customizer that shows you a live preview of what you're changing. Your profile will come up there and you can add the things you want to stick on the side of the page as people explore your site. Play around in the Customizer and then Save your changes with the button near the top left.
You can start users of your site with a more content-oriented Activities page or with an-image-background page. Choose between these options in Appearance -- Frontpage Style.
Where this is going. And: Thanks!
The next version of this Arts Student Web Space theme will add a bunch of features, including a front page builder that let's you show and feature things on the front page and in whatever order you choose.
We hope you enjoy using this Arts Student Web Space. We want to hear from you trendsetting first users so we can improve the tool. Just email us at ubcarts.support@ubc.ca
And tell your friends that if they want to help us test it, they should get in touch with us at that address.
Thanks for helping us develop this tool.
Dr. Rumee Ahmed, Associate Dean - Innovation and Communication
Dr. Fred Cutler, Professor of Political Science
Julie Walchli, Director, Arts Co-op and Career Preparation
Michael Ha, Arts ISIT Senior Web Application Engineer
This is the Learning Significance area for the activity. It can be private notes for you to reflect on what the activity means to you, what you could do next time to improve, or what other activities it is connected to.