Uploading Artifacts into the Portfolio

Edit a Section in your Portfolio

  • Click on Edit to Begin
  • You have all the typical edit functions of a word processor.
  • You can change fonts, sizes, colour, alignment, etc.
  • You lot can as well insert images within the textbox, insert "hot" links to a URL, insert a YouTube video of your teaching, and link to some other LiveText Certificate you have stored in your own account.

Insert a File Attachment or Image From your Computer or File Manager

    • Documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations tin can exist uploaded to your portfolio either direct from your calculator or from the file managing director.
    • Click on "File Attachment" either on the tab above or ringlet down to the File Attachments below and click edit.
    • Or click in "insert Image" on the tab above or scroll downwardly to the Prototype Inserted Epitome below and click edit.
    • To upload from your computer, select Browse your reckoner to upload and locate your file.
    • All file and epitome attachments will exist stored in the File Director.
    • You can also add together your attachments directly from the File Manager. Run into Below.
    • If yous have already uploaded a file as a signature assignment in one of your courses, that file will be listed in the file director.
    • Recommended: Upload files to the file manager throughout your program, fifty-fifty if they aren't signature assignments. It's a keen identify to store your piece of work!

Insert Tools inside the Textbox

Insert Link to other LiveText Document

Insert a File Zipper From your Computer or File Manager

    • Documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations can be uploaded to your portfolio either directly from your computer or from the file manager.
    • To upload from your figurer, select Browse your computer to upload and locate your file.
    • All file and prototype attachments volition exist stored in the File Manager.
    • Yous can also add together your attachments directly from the File Manager. See Below.
    • If you lot have already uploaded a file every bit a signature assignment in one of your courses, that file volition exist listed in the file director.
    • Recommended: Upload files to the file manager throughout your program, even if they aren't signature assignments. Information technology'southward a neat place to store your work!

Insert an Paradigm or a File Attachment

  • You can also choose to upload an image from your calculator or from your file manager.
  • Y'all will want to re-size your images for the web. Try to stay under 500 pixels for web viewing. Save as .gif or .jpg files. See photo editors. Picasa is gratuitous, but besides look to see what'southward included on your own calculator. Windows computers generally accept "Paint" nether the accessories section.
  • At the bottom of the page, below your textbox, you will come across options of inserted file or inserted image. Click on "Edit."

Browse Your Computer to Upload Files and Images

  • Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select either "Inserted File" or "Inserted Image"
  • Click on "Edit" to Search for the file or image you want to upload.
  • For Files - Locate the file (document, Adobe Acrobat pdf, PowerPoint, etc.) on your own Computer or usb bulldoze.
  • For Images - Locate the graphic file you want to upload if yous select paradigm. (gif, jpeg (jpg), ping (png)

  • For Windows, select Documents. Information technology'southward a expert idea to create a file folder with all of your course files and images so you can always notice them!
  • Yous may wish to save Images in your Pictures folder.
  • Click on the Advisable Folder and Locate the File or Image yous want to upload.

Uploading from the File Manager

  • Yous tin upload the paradigm or the file attachment from the file manager.
  • All previous signature assignments are stored in your ain personal LiveText file director.
    • Scroll down to file manager and select file from list.

  • Click on "Add" to upload file from your file manager.

  • Locate your file and "Add together" it from your File Zipper Menu.
  • Use the Search or Search by Date

Inserting Text, Artifacts, Images, and Web Links Directly into Text Box

You can also upload artifacts, link to resources, and write your reflections for each standard inside the text box. If you are uploading bookish APA papers, you will desire to upload the document file in order to not lose the proper formatting for references, etc. You may wish to type cursory introductory statements or use a bulleted list to outline what yous take included in your antiquity file attachments rather than copy/pasting total text of a document. Although the reflection section is start, you will want to wait and add your reflection after you've nerveless your artifacts as testify of your proficiency with each standard. Y'all tin can attach images and files (documents, presentations, spreadsheets, videos, etc.) to the text box.

  • You will blazon, insert images, attach files, add weblinks, etc. in the department edit text box.
  • You have the typical editing options: fonts, font sizes, font fashion, colors, alignment, numbered or bulleted lists, etc
  • You can blazon directly into the text box or you can copy/paste from Word.
  • Recollect that you can but copy/paste text. Images will need to be inserted or attached.

For how to embed videos, presentations, and Prezis into your LiveText portfolio, go to https://sites.google.com/site/livetexttutorials/embedding-video

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