As a teacher, you can collect evidences using the Brightspace Portfolio app, add evidences to a student's portfolio on their behalf, approve and archive evidences.

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In the Portfolio tool, you can view evidence in archived portfolios, which are automatically removed from course portfolios and archived when the related courses become inactive. You can use a student's archived portfolios to demonstrate growth, reflect on past learning, and showcase their best work.

Students can use the Brightspace Portfolio app on a classroom device to collect images of their best work, and record an audio reflection about their work. Older students can also record reflections using the Brightspace Portfolio app. This evidence is saved directly to the cloud location set up for the classroom. Then, students and teachers can view the evidence from within the Brightspace Portfolio tool.

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You can log in to your student's accounts using the My Device mode in the Brightspace Portfolio app and capture work on behalf of students.

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By default, private notes by teachers remain hidden. Notes that are not shared with other educators enrolled in the course are marked with the Hidden icon.

Evidence from inactive courses is automatically archived to streamline the appearance of a student's Portfolio. When a course disappears from the student's list of active courses, the course folder and evidence captured within those courses are automatically moved into the archived year. Scenarios for when a course folder might be archived, include:

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You can add private educator notes or comments to evidence submitted by students. These private notes are not visible to students, their parents or guardians and can be used to collect assessment notes or reminders that can be used later for evaluation purposes. You have the option to share your private notes with other educators enrolled in the course, who can choose to respond by sharing their private notes.

To ensure that evidence collected by students is suitable to add to their portfolios, you can configure Portfolio to allow you to approve evidence before it appears in student portfolios. From the Settings page in the Portfolio tool, you can specify the methods for adding evidence that require your approval, for example, if students are using the My Device mode, you can specify that evidence must be approved by you. Refer to the Define Portfolio class settings topic for details.

A student's archived evidence can be viewed by those who have access to a student's portfolio. Teachers can leverage this functionality to review a student's past evidence of learning and personalize how or what they teach. Teachers can check a student's evidence for courses for which they are currently the teacher, as well as all archived evidence, regardless of whether they were the teacher of the course that produced the evidence. Teachers remain unable to see evidence for a student's current courses for which they are not the teacher.