Portfolium and academic integrity

If your students are using an online portfolio tool like Portfolium to publish their work, consider embedding copyright education into your subject. This helps students to understand the differences between content submitted internally at UTS and content published more broadly outside UTS. 

Here are some steps to consider when implementing copyright education into your subject:

1. Start by talking to your students about academic integrity and direct them to UTS Academic integrity resources. 
2. Direct your students to the library’s Copyright advice for students and link to Copyright considerations when publishing your student work.
3. Encourage students to self-assess the conditions and requirements of creating content for research or personal study, and for sharing or publishing work through the library’s Manage your content – create content self-assessment tool.
4. Let students know that they can contact the friendly team at the library for copyright assistance. 
5. In addition to the above copyright resources, ask your students to read the Portfolium terms of use to understand their rights, responsibilities and expectations while using Portfolium.
6. Finally, where there has been a breach or suspected breach of one of the policies referenced in the Terms of Use, you or your students should refer to the breach process for that policy. 

One of the great features of Portfolium is how easy it is for students to showcase their work by simply Adding a Portfolium Project or by Importing Assignments from Canvas.  

Before encouraging your students to build a portfolio in Portfolium, here are some recommended considerations to communicate to your students before they showcase their work (eg. publishing assignments in Portfolium).

Encourage students to check if their assignment is suitable for sharing outside of UTS 

Checklist:

• Protection of personal and health information: is the assignment in line with the Privacy Policy? For example, have all steps been taken to ensure an individual’s privacy is protected? Have email addresses, phone numbers or any other personal information been removed?  
• Appropriate referencing: Has the assignment been referenced correctly?
• Assignment snapshot: Is it better to upload a screenshot of the work rather than the whole assignment?
• Obtain consent: Is the assignment part of group work? If so, has written consent been obtained from all parties in the group to share the assignment?

Check privacy settings of a project

Decide which privacy setting is best for a project. You can set the visibility of projects as well as manage commenting.

Encourage students to submit their assignments to Canvas for marking before sharing broadly in Portfolium

Assignments come in many forms, from the humble essay, lab report, presentations and many other formats. It is recommended that your students use Canvas to submit their assignments for marking and feedback. If appropriate for your subject or the content of the assignment, the work can be shared/published for showcasing at a later date, after marking is complete.