New functionality for the Portfolio Notes feature we added last month: you can now post a note in any section (or the main menu) of multiple portfolios - or clear existing notes - from any of the administrative list/report pages by selecting the portfolios and clicking Post/clear Notes at the bottom of the page. (The new note will replace any existing note in that portfolio section.)
As you may be aware, your site can create Portfolio Groups to organize your users' portfolios. We've now added the ability to assign portfolios to more than one group. When users initially create their portfolios, they select the first group to be assigned. After the portfolio is created, additional groups can be added to or current groups deleted from the Portfolio Profile.
When logged in administratively, you now have multiple options when you select one or more portfolios and click Assign to group: Add group, to add a new group to those already assigned; Replace existing groups, to replace any current group assignments with the new group you've chosen; and Clear groups, to clear all groups assigned. If you're just changing group assignments for one portfolio, that portfolio's current groups are displayed and can be deleted individually by clicking on the group title.
Finally, we've added a Clear all group assignments button to the Portfolio Admin Groups page that you can use to clear the groups from all your portfolios.
Yes, we've added another new Portfolio feature! This time, it's an electronic version of a "post-it" note that you can place on a user's Portfolio Main Menu, or on the index page for any portfolio section. When you are logged in administratively, or as a group manager, and you go into a students' portfolio, you'll now see a text box for the note at the top of each section for which Portfolio Notes can be entered. To post the note, just enter the text and click Save Changes. When the user enters that section of their portfolio, they'll see the note, along with the date you entered it. They will also see an indicator on their main menu to let them know they have a note in that section.
A new Portfolio Notes report in the Portfolio Administration shows the dates and sections for any notes you've entered in your users' portfolios.
Every August, students with WOIS Electronic Portfolios are automatically promoted to the next grade. We've now added a feature to the Portfolio Admin Settings page where you can choose a grade to be automatically transferred to another WOIS site when grade promotion takes place. For example, you may choose for the eighth graders in your middle school to promote to your area high school when WOIS does the automatic grade promotion in August.
You will find this features in the Settings section of your Portfolio Administration. If you have questions, please contact Tami at 1-800-700-WOIS or tami@wois.org.
