Workspace Home

The Student Workspace home page provides one-click access for students to add and manage portfolios containing their school work. Each student has their own workspace that is unique to their profile that stays with them as a Schoolnet user even as teachers, schools, and school years change. Students begin to build out their individual workspaces by creating portfolios to demonstrate work, aptitude, experience, knowledge in one or more of their classes. Students create portfoliosAn artifact contained within a student workspace that includes one or many work items. All created portfolios are represented as tiles on the Student Workspace main page providing a user-friendly view of a student's workspace. and add their most valued work itemsAn artifact contained within a student portfolio that includes one or more images and/or documents as evidence of work in an area of study or category. as evidence of their learning. While portfolios can be linked only to a student's active classes, students can always access portfolios linked to prior classes and school years. Teachers and others with the appropriate permissions also have access to a student's workspace.

Student Workspace has a user-friendly design with many features to make managing and viewing student work simple:

• Sort options to quickly locate portfolios linked to classes, portfolio modification date, number of items or title.
• Access to Past Years Portfolios that provide the ability to view portfolios from previous years as well as the ability to show the classes linked to that portfolio.
• Tile layout for portfolios, work items, and attachments providing a touch-friendly and streamlined user interface.
• Reordering of portfolio work items and attachments simply by selecting a tile and move to a new location.
• Breadcrumb navigation links that allow users to an easy path to navigate across portfolios and work items include page controls.
• MP4 and MP3 in-line playback.
• Visually-rich portfolio and work item views that reflect the content within them.
• Actions menu with manage portfolio options.
• Hierarchy of a workspace is Workspace > Portfolio(s) > Work Item(s) > Attachment(s).

Student Access

Students access their Student Workspace from a web part on the Schoolnet home page that has been designed for students only.

1. In the Student Workspace widget, click Launch.
2. Optional: Choose All Classes or select a class to filter the view.
3. Optional: Choose filter option to sort portfolios:
• Last Updated (Newest to Oldest)*
• Last Updated (Oldest to Newest)*
• # Work Items (Highest to Lowest)
• Portfolio Title (A to Z)

*Last updated refers to the last date that a portfolio was edited or any associated work items within a portfolio were modified or added.

4. Optional: Click on a tile to access the portfolio details to create, view, and manage the work items within a portfolio.

Teachers & Authorized Visitors

Teachers who are assigned to a current section have access to the workspaces of their students. In addition to teachers, other users with Manage Instruction rights have access to the workspaces of students in those sections that they have permissions to view. Go to Classroom > Student Workspaces. For more information, see Student Workspaces in the Classroom: User Guide.

Use the Back to Classrooms View link to access another student's workspace.