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Portfolio stories allow educators to reflect and document evidence of their work over time. Whether it's a reflection on your goals or inquiry, or a record of your professional learning development - portfolio stories can have a multitude of uses.

You can add your learning tags (ie. teaching or graduate standards, or other assessment criteria that may be relevant to you as a teacher), to your portfolio stories. One of the benefits is that over time you can analyse and review your progress against these criteria.

There are two ways to create portfolio stories: adding a story you've already published to a child's profile, to your portfolio with one click, or creating a story from scratch in your own portfolio.

Portfolio stories can be created in the same way as other stories, i.e. add text, images, videos and PDFs, but instead of selecting a child in the story, an educator selects themselves.

On each story you've authored and published, you'll see an Add to My Portfolio button:

Clicking this adds a copy of the story to your portfolio and displays a message confirming that. You'll get the option to close the message and stay viewing the current story, or to Open in My Portfolio:

Opening it in your portfolio allows you to view, edit or respond to your new portfolio story. You might want to:

1. Tap the Create story button

Note: If you're creating the story from your portfolio, you will already be selected and won't need to follow any of the following steps.

2. Tap the group selector where you usually select your service or room name, and choose My Portfolio:

3. Once you have selected My Portfolio, you will be shown as an educator in the story:

4. When you're finished writing your portfolio story, tap Publish and the story will be saved to your portfolio stories page:

When you publish a portfolio story it will be saved to your portfolio, and at first can only be seen by yourself.
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When only you have access to a portfolio story, you'll see a lock icon at the bottom:

A portfolio story can be made visible to your contributors by clicking the arrow in the top right of the story preview card and selecting which of your contributors you'd like to give access to. Once a contributor is selected, they can view and respond to your story.

Your portfolio stories will remain accessible to you even after you've left your current early learning service.

If your service has subscribed to the Premium version of Eductor Portfolios - you can link your published portfolio stories together in a plan in order to show progression or evidence of your learning journey. Learn more about linking portfolio stories to plans.