Set Up: Step Two

e-Portfolio: In "LC Study Skills: Making Presentations", you are required to maintain an electronic portfolio (e-portfolio) of all your work in Google Docs (GD). You should do all of your written assignments in your e-portfolio, as well as the preparation work required. Your e-portfolio is evidence of the work you have done and the progress you have made. You can write directly in your e-portfolio, GD is like a simple online version of Microsoft Word. Moreover, it enables you to share and collaborate on your presentation at the push of a button.

1. If you have not already signed up for Google Docs, you should sign up now. It takes about one (1) minute. Here again are the instructions. Please return here when you have finished.

2. Click the link at the top of this email message.

Create Your Own e-Portfolio

3. On the next screen, click the on the 'File' menu, click 'Save as new copy'. You now have a copy of the "LC Study Skills: Making Presentations" portfolio form.

4. Click on the 'File' menu, click 'Rename'. In the box that opens, enter a new document name. The name of your e-portfolio should contain the title of the course, your first name, as well as your student number:

e.g. 69647 Rhama's Making Presentations e-Portfolio

5. You now have your own e-portfolio for "Making Presentations".

Share Your e-Portfolio With Your LC Teacher
6. Click the "Share' button (look top right), click 'Share with others'.

Figure 1

7. On the next screen (Figure 1), type in your LC teacher's email address. The blue 'as collaborators' button should be 'on'. The boxes at the bottom should also be checked as shown.

8. Click the 'Invite Collaborators' button.

9. In box that appears (Figure 2 below), click the 'Send' button.

Figure 2

10. As shown in Figure 1, click '« Back to editing the document.'

11. Go to the File menu, select 'Save and close'.