Using Your Pepper Portfolio

At Pepper, we believe that learning is social! Sharing a course portfolio – as well as viewing and collaborating on peers’ portfolios – is a great way to support one another, get inspired, and share what you are doing. It also gives you the opportunity to create a common conversation around the coursework.    

Pepper offers a type of portfolio within their coursework that varies from a traditional portfolio. Participating in Pepper courses allows teachers to submit their reflection/journal entries, tasks, and assignments to their Pepper Portfolio. As this is done, a course specific portfolio of key work to share with others is created. This personal portfolio will be a powerful tool for the organization of the participant's coursework for future reference. It also allows the user to select portfolio elements that can made available for others to view for feedback and collaboration.

Your Pepper Portfolio has three main categories: About Me, My Coursework, and My Discussions.

• The About Me section contains your profile information and lets others know a little about your professional experience.
• The My Coursework section contains all of your coursework submissions. It will also contain any reflections and/or additional documents that you have added to your portfolio.
• The final category, My Discussions, is where the “social” aspect really kicks in. This category shows all the discussions you have either participated in or created. This is the place to collaborate and share with other educators.

When you’re a part of Pepper, you are a part of a vibrant learning community. Your portfolio is a valuable tool that can be used for collaboration, professional networking and support, and an awesome way to share ideas with other educators. 

When you choose to sign-up and start a course in the course directory, the course will automatically appear in your dashboard along with two buttons, “View Course” which will take you to the course content, and “View Portfolio” which will take you directly to your course specific portfolio that you are creating for that course.  

You can find more detailed information about using your Pepper Portfolio in the Pepper User Guide.

Because your Pepper Portfolio is a built in component of Pepper Courses, you can begin (or continue) building your portfolio with every Pepper course you take! So, be sure to enroll in our great selection of Pepper courses to further your own professional growth.

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