Before you begin building your ePortfolio

You will need to determine if your department, course or program wants you to:

• Use a specific software system to create your ePortfolio, such as eFolio, Taskstream, KEEP Toolkit, or ICAP; or
• Use a specific department pre-set web template ; or
• Use our SF State professional templates, or create your own.

If you are ready to build your portfolio using a pre-set web template, or create your own site, SFSU's Department of Information Technology (DoIT) provides every SFSU student, regardless of program or campus location, with 200 MB of SFSU Internet storage space.

Your personal webspace is automatically set up when you register at SFSU. Digital files copied into your portfolio web folder are accessible by any Internet web browser.

This web-tutorial is ONLY for students interested in using the SF State hosted sites. It is designed specifically to provide step-by-step instructions for students who want to create an ePortfolio, using Seamonkey (a free open-source html editor), and publish it within your personal webspace.

Any questions? Contact ePortfolio Support.

TIP: Here is a link to see examples of ePortfolios.

Gathering the ingredients of your ePortfolio

Before you can publish your ePortfolio, you will need to gather all the ingredients you will need. Your ePortfolio might include:

• Selected evidence from coursework, with reflective commentary;
• Artifacts from extra-curricular activities (Community service, volunteer work, sports, organizations);
• Awards and Honors you've received;
• Projects, films, music or other creative endeavors;
• Career Objectives, Education, Resume, Skills/Training, Academic/Work Samples, Employment History, and Contact Information.

TIP: Here is a link for more information about ingredients to include in your ePortfolio.

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Picking software tools for your ePortfolio

There are a variety of tools that you can use to create and publish your ePortfolio. The most popular web editing software on SFSU's campus is Adobe Dreamweaver. Here is a link for a list of labs on campus

You can download the following free software programs from SFSU to create and publish your ePortfolio:

Link	Description
	Mozilla's SeaMonkey Composer is an open-source WYSIWYG web-authoring tool.
	Fetch is a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client for Macintosh that is licensed for use by SFSU students.
	Filezilla is an open-source FTP client for Windows PCs.

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Downloading ePortfolio Templates

For your convenience, San Francisco State University provides a selection of ready to use templates for your ePortfolio. Below are two choices of generic templates that you can use to build your personal ePortfolio.

SFSU ePortfolio Templates

After downloading, rename the resulting folder "eportfolio". This will become part of your web address (ex. userwww.sfsu.edu/~username/eportfolio).

TIP: Here is a link to see a list of other generic and department specific ePortfolio templates. For examples using other ePortfolio software here is a link to the ePortfolio Gallery.

Quick Guide

Click on the link for a printable pdf of the following information.

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