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What is an "oFolio"?

oFolio is a web based portfolio system that allows learners to demonstrate adherance to a set of professional standards. oFolio creates a website for an organization and provides the means for learners to create, edit and maintain portfolios via the web. Mentors and cohorts can view different parts of the portfolio. The material can even be published to the general public.'

How do I get started?

As an EDL intern you will be provided an oFolio account which will allow you to begin collecting and documenting your internship experience. Contact the Program Administrator (Educational Leadership Department at 786.4450) to get signed up for an account.'

What is "web publishing"?

Even though you build your online portfolio with a web browser over the internet your material is not published to the world wide web. Web publishing in oFolio happens when you give permission to the general public to view parts of your online portfolio. Make sure you are ready to have your material go public before turning "on" web publishing.

How do I log into ofolio?

An ofolio account is established for you using your UAA email as your username. If you do not remember your password You can have it emailed to you. For instructions go to http://ofolio.akedl.edu/passwordhelp.shtml.

What is my username?

Your username / ID is your complete email address, i.e., ffrts@uaa.alaska.edu.

What kinds of things are considered ARTIFACTS?

Artifacts are documents that have been produced during the internship and are representative meeting the standards; Newsletter articles, Memos, Articles, Letters to parents , Schedules, Agendas, Letters of appreciation, Curriculum documents, Sessions, Budget documents, Planning documents, Applied Research project, E-mail messages,

What should I name uploaded artifact files?

A good general rule is to keep the name short, but descriptive. Use "resume" instead of "myJobResume". Also make sure you include the file suffix. This is mostly a warning to Macintosh users. The suffix lets web site guests (and their web browser applications) know what kind of a file it is. Examples include

• .doc for Word
• .xls for Excel
• .txt for plain text files
• .ppt for Power Point
• .mov for QuickTime movies
• .jpg for JPEG pictures
• .gif for GIF pictures

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Numerous students are complaining that they are saving their critical incidents and when they go back in to look at them, they are not there. Could you check into this and let me know as we have a number of instructors reporting it and I would like to get them some info so we can let students know?

That message: "None Found: The requested page cannot be found, please check its location and try again." can happen when a user tries to upload a file and the process fails.

There are a couple of reasons it might fail. One is that a student is trying to upload a file that is larger than the max file size allowed. Or that multiple students are attempting to upload files which combined are over the limit.

This is a situation that I'm not happy with at all but that is also temporarily beyond my control. It has to do with the way 4D handles file uploads and memory management. One major downside to this is that programatically oFolio cannot detect when such an error occurs, and that is why your students are seeing those ungraceful pages.

You might tell them that all they have to do is hit the browser's back button and they can keep working. Perhaps they can even try uploading the file again. Just make sure that they realize what the file limit is.

Also I have noticed that you really have to force the "File Refresh" button once or twice and sometimes refresh the browser display in order to see the new fies listed in the artifacts section.

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