1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,400 This screencast will demonstrate the creation of a profile using a blog with the new ePortfolio plugin activated. 2 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:25,400 What we can see here is a blog. It's been set up as an ePortfolio blog, so it's got the ePortfolio plugin activated. 3 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:35,400 And there is a variety of posts which have had the profile tags added. 4 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:47,400 We've also customised a standard 2014 blog to have a header image and a coloured sidebar and things. 5 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:57,400 This doesn't really affect the profiles at all. This gives pupils an opportunity to have a bit of choice about what their blog looks like. 6 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:06,400 So I've made a good number of posts on this blog and I'm ready to create a profile. 7 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:21,400 I can either go New and Profile from here, or I can go into the dashboard and there's a link to All Profiles and Add New there. 8 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:38,400 So I'm going to click Add New and give it a title. I've got my name already. I'll put my school name in, and class. 9 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:46,400 I've got the opportunity, if I want to, to add a badge or a logo and a profile image. 10 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:56,400 When I click this, I can either choose an image I've already updated, or I can upload one in the usual fashion. 11 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:03,400 I've got one here, so it's a school badge. I'll use that image for a school badge. 12 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:09,400 I'll click on my profile picture and I'll add my picture there. 13 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:15,400 What we've got down below is an outline of the sections of the profile. 14 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:21,400 Learner Statement, Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing. This indicates the order these will be shown in. 15 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:32,400 So if I wanted a different order, I can drag and drop these around to reorder them. 16 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:43,400 Now each of these sections has been preloaded with the last three posts made with this particular profile tag, 17 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,400 except for the Learner Statement, which has just got the last one. 18 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:52,400 I can go in there and have a look, and I can see that Learner Statement there. 19 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:57,400 If I didn't want this section to appear in my profile, I could click Remove Profile. 20 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:03,400 If I look inside Expressive Arts, you can see it's got the last two. 21 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:12,400 And Maths has got the last three things that have been tagged, or profile tagged, with Mathematics. 22 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:19,400 Now if one of these particular posts I didn't like, I could easily just remove that and it'd only list two. 23 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:24,400 But now, because there's less than three, I can select the post here, 24 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:30,400 and if there's more, there'd be a list, and I could choose any post that has the profile tag Mathematics, 25 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:38,400 and I can add that back in again, and it'll go in at the bottom there. 26 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:47,400 So on this page, I can reorder things, I can remove bits of my profile, or choose other posts with the appropriate tag to be added. 27 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:54,400 If I remove the section, so if I remove the language section for instance, 28 00:03:54,400 --> 00:04:00,400 it then becomes available to add back in from the top. 29 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:07,400 So I can add that back in, and drag and drop it to the place I want it. 30 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,400 As I'm working, I might want to save my draft here. 31 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:18,400 And once I've saved the draft, I can preview that, and it'll open up in a new window or a new tab, 32 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:31,400 and you can get an idea of what your profile looks like. This is a web view of the profile. 33 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:37,400 Close that back down, go back to the profile. Once I'm completely happy with the profile, I can publish it. 34 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:43,400 The thing about publishing a profile is once it's published, it cannot be edited again. 35 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,400 You can, however, clone a published profile and edit the clone. 36 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:52,400 For instance, if you've got a nice order to things, you can do that. 37 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,400 I'm going to publish the profile just to show you what happens here. 38 00:04:55,400 --> 00:05:00,400 And it's going to warn me that I can't edit it, but I can make a new copy, clone a new copy. 39 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:12,400 So I'm just going to click publish profile, and once I've done that, I can view the profile here. 40 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:17,400 And on this page, you can see that the admin bar has got some new functions here. 41 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:23,400 We can print the profile, which will just print this page here, as you see it. 42 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:29,400 But we can also download the profile, and if I click download, it's going to create a PDF of the profile 43 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:35,400 and download that. 44 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:42,400 So I can open this, and one of the good things I think are useful features of the downloaded profile 45 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:49,400 is that if there was any video content in the profile, you would see it as a link to the video 46 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,400 because it's not much good seeing a video on a printed copy. 47 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:59,400 It's the same for any other content that's embedded, active content that's embedded in the profile. 48 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,400 From here, I can also clone to make a copy of the profile. 49 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:13,400 If I go back to the dashboard, and then profiles and all profiles, we can now see that profile's there 50 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,400 and I can't edit it. 51 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:23,400 However, I can from here or from the page clone that profile, which will give me a copy here 52 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,400 and I can edit that copy if I wanted. 53 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:32,400 The published profile should also be added to the profiles widget, 54 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:39,400 which now has appeared on the left-hand side of my blog. 55 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:50,400 I think that covers the basics of creating an ePortfolio, and hopefully you'll find it simple and easy to use.