Electronic portfolios, digital assessment, and lesson planning with Adobe Acrobat
Student coursework is the cornerstone of measuring achievement and learning. As students use new modalities to communicate their learning and express their understanding, you need new ways to plan for and assess their work and help them showcase it. Use these three guides to learn how to:
- Help students create personalized, media-rich PDF portfolios of their coursework
- Make use of the commenting and reviewing tools to digitally assess coursework
- Streamline lesson planning using PDF forms
Creating electronic portfolios with Adobe Acrobat
Electronic portfolios serve as an ideal way for students to gather and showcase their work. In this guide, learn how to use the PDF portfolio capabilities in Acrobat to help students create media-rich portfolios and share their work with teachers, peers, and prospective employers.
- Creating electronic portfolios (PDF: 2.4M)
Examples of electronic portfolios:
Biology thesis portfolio
Portfolio of college application forms
Design student portfolio
High school student portfolio
Marine biology course portfolio
Digital assessment with Adobe Acrobat
To evaluate digital coursework, you need enhanced formative and summative assessment tools with capabilities for digital commenting and collaborative reviewing. Digital assessment is particularly appropriate for grading collections of projects or e-portfolios, semester or year-long projects, and multimedia projects. In this guide, learn how to use the commenting, markup, and collaborative reviewing capabilities in Acrobat to digitally assess your students' coursework.
Generating lesson plans with Adobe Acrobat
Planning daily coursework for your students can be time-consuming. When you create forms in Acrobat, you automate lesson planning and save valuable time. In this guide, learn how to create custom lesson-plan forms with which you can quickly map out your teaching plan for your students.
