Allowing Comments and Rubric Assessments on Your Content


Enabling comments on an artefact, collection, reflection, presentation, or learning objective allows users who are viewing the item to leave feedback. Use this feature to collaborate with peers so they may congratulate you on your work, provide constructive criticism, or point out additional resources.

Enabling assessments for an artefact, collection, reflection, presentation, or learning objective allows users with the appropriate permissions to evaluate the item using a rubric. You must select which rubric you want users to evaluate your work against the list of rubrics provided by your organisation.

When others comment and assess an item in your portfolio, their feedback becomes a part of the item. You can see it below the item's details when viewing the item, or through the feeds and widgets on your My ePortfolio dashboard.

The following links are provided to assist navigate through the guide:

Set Your Preferences so Comments or Assessments are Enabled by Default

Enable Comments

Enable Assessments

Set Your Preferences so Comments or Assessments are Enabled by Default


1. Click the Settings link from the top of any page in My ePortfolio.

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2. Select Allow comments on reflections, artefacts, collections, presentations, and learning objectives by default or Allow assessments on artefacts, collections, presentations, and learning objectives by default.

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3. Click Save and Close.

Enable Comments


1. Open the Edit page for the artefact, collection, reflection, presentation, or learning objective you want to enable comments for.

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2. Select Allow others to add/view comments if they have sufficient permission

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3. Click Save and Close.

NoteSelecting this check box allows users with the appropriate permissions to leave comments on the item. Click Share from an item's context menu to assign permissions to a user.

Enable Assessments


1. Open the Edit page for the artefact, collection, reflection, or presentation you want to enable comments for.

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2. Select Allow others to add/view assessments if they have sufficient permission.

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3. Click Add Rubrics.

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4. Select the rubric you want to attach and click Add Selected.

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5. Click Save and Close.

Note: Selecting this check box allows users with the appropriate permissions to leave assessments on the item. Click Share from an item's context menu to assign permissions to a user.

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