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Easy Portfolio is an app for collecting and storing student portfolio. It’s a good start but unfortunately it’s not quite ready for intense classroom use.

The good

• You can add portfolio names (probably one per student / one per project.
• You can add a range of document types namely video, photos, documents, urls, notes and audio.
• You can add multiple photos, docs and videos at one time.
• You can sort, rename, delete,email and save documents.
• You can import from Dropbox. But not everything.
• iPhone / iPad app in one.

The not so good:

• Inconsistent interface makes for a confusing ride. And there are save buttons. Save buttons on an iPad? I don’t need save buttons! If I change my mind I’ll just delete the entry.
• It takes a minimum of eight taps to add, say, a video. More if you want to rename the video. And did I mention saving? One of those taps is a save button. Forget the save button and you have to start again.
• You can’t sort the portfolio names. Thirty students in random order? I think not.
• You can’t select a student and then add multiple items – you have to select a portfolio each time.
• You can’t select a document type then add multiple versions to different portfolios (such as a set of class photos). I can imagine this getting very aggravating when entering a lot of material.

So…

Give it a try, because it’s heading in the right direction and feedback ideas to the developers because there’s certainly potential here, but not quite the actuality.

Tags: Portfolio