UC San Diego

A portfolio can bee seen as an organized presentation of a student's work. Recently, the assignment of digital portfolios has become popular among university faculty; and for some classes, students are required to create a webpage with the descriptions of their work. While this approach allows a student to quickly get started on building his or her portfolio, the amount of work and the complexity of building such an online portfolio can be discouraging; thus, many students do not update them beyond the scope of their current class. Furthermore, not all types of assignments can easily be presented on the web. For example, quizzes and exams are usually available only as hard copies; so students must take additional steps, such as scanning, to include them in their digital portfolios. Thus, most such web pages only include descriptions of students' works or links to an html page which students have created as part of their assignments. In this paper, I will present a convenient way for students to build up their portfolio. By using the techniques outlined in this paper, students will no longer have to be experts in web design to construct a presentable digital portfolio of their class work. Instead, the class work will automatically be converted to a digital format before being returned to the students. Furthermore, I have created a Rich Internet Application that allows students to quickly and conveniently view and manage their portfolios.