Welcome to Minnesota’s eFolio www.efoliominnesota.com

Rochester Workforce Center

September 12, 2003

Norman Baer

Matthew St. Martin

eFolio 101 - Basics

• eFolio examples

• Registration

• Where to find helpful information

• Selecting a design and color scheme

• Personalizing your eFolio

• Basic data entry

PowerPoint presentation available at: www.efoliomn.avenet.net

Background Material - eFolio Training

Examples of eFolios

• Student Emma Wasko - (www.emmawasko.efoliomn.com) - Password protected

Courtney Church - (www.courtneychurch.efoliomn.com) - Animation • Worker Ted Johnson - (www.tedjohnson.efoliomn1.com) - General layout

Jennifer Abernathy - (www.jenniferabernathy.efoliomn1.com) Benjamin Ellingsworth - (www.benjaminelllingsworth.efoliomn1.com) - HTML Table, Password protected page

• Educator Linda Baer - (www.lindabaer.efoliomn2.com) - Layout, Image Map, PowerPoint

Presentations

Norman Baer - (www.normanbaer.efoliomn2.com) - Graphics

First and last name become your web site address.

Your E-mail address is so we can notify you that your site has been created, what the URL address is, and your user name and password.

If you are under 18 you will also need to include your birth date.

Create your own user name and password.

Click the “Next” button once. In a couple of seconds you will see a thank you screen. You will also receive an e-mail message with your site URL, your username and your password.

Congratulations! You’ve just created your own electronic portfolio!

Now let’s get in and start working with your site.

Your web site address is:

www.yourname.efoliomnx.com

Site where you will add information is:

www.yourname.efoliomnx.com/admin

To add information you will need to enter your username and password.

Clicking on the ‘Content Tools’ tab will always return you to this screen, which is the main navigation page.

From this page you can access any of the sections to add information such as text, documents, images, or other types of files.

Note that some of the sections have [off] next to them. These sections have been turned off and cannot be seen when looking at your eFolio. We will learn more about this later.

Selecting a design and putting your name in the banner.

• The first step in making the site your own is to put your name in the banner and to select a design.

• Click on the words “Site Management”

• Click on the words “Design Center”

• You can select from multiple designs and color variations by clicking on the numbers “1”, “2”, “3” and “4”.

• Click on the design that you might want to use and you will see a larger version pop-up in the middle of the screen along with some designs having additional color choices.

• When you have the design you want, click on the “Choose this one” button.

• Note: You can always go back and change your design.

Names and slogans

• After you have selected your design you will see the screen on the left. Put your name into the box that says “Title” .

• Include a “Slogan” and “Footer” if you like.

• Hit the “Finished” button when you are done.

Help is available!• There are Quick Tips on the right-

hand side of each screen

• Click on the ‘Help’ tab. This allows you to send us a request by e-mail.

• Online tutorial available at ‘Help’ link on registration page or at:

www.slsc.mnscu.edu/takeatour/silviamorales.html

• Call the Service Center at: 1-877-348-0502

Viewing your eFolio • To view your site you can click on

the “Live Site’ tab.

• You can open up another browser and type in your eFolio URL. Remember if you registered as a student use “efoliomn.com”, “efoliomn1.com” for a worker or “efoliomn2.com” for an educator site.

Adding content

• Click first on the “Content Tools” tab then click on the word “Home”. The “Home” section is the first page a user sees when coming to your site.

• On this screen you can turn sections “On” or “Off” by clicking the green “On” button by “Section Display”. When a section is “On” your information can be viewed on the Internet.

• Click on the “edit” button to start adding content.

Putting in an image, document, video, or audio file

• Placing an image, document, video or audio file in your portfolio is simple.

• Click on “Home” and click on “Edit”. Then click on either the image, document, audio or video blue tab on the left side of the screen.

• Click on the “Browse” button and select the file that you want to upload. When you have selected the file, hit “Upload” and the information is moved to your site. Next complete the required fields then hit the green “Finished” button.

Next Steps for You

• Continue to work and experiment within your site.

• The sites are live! Efolio does not offer spell check so you may want to copy and paste text from your word processing program.

• This tool has been put through its paces, so do not worry about “breaking” the tool.

• When in doubt, check out “Quick Tips,” the Help Site, or drop an email to the help desk (contact form is on the help site).

Good work, good luck to all of you and thank you for

having us here today!!!!

eFolio RepresentativesNorman Baer and Matt St. Martin