A student e-portfolio is ideal for planning your homework, working at home or away from school and including text, color, videos and images within your assignments and project work.

"The assignment is due when? Tomorrow?”

We've all been there at some point. Somehow, that assignment due date just slipped right up on us without our noticing.

That is why organizational skills are so important to school performance. Who can afford to score a big fat "0" on a paper, just because we got lazy and didn't pay attention to the due date? Who wants to get an "F" because we forgot to put our completed project in our book bag the night before it was due?

Poor organization skills can reduce your final scores by a whole letter grade. That's why you should learn to use an e-portfolio today.  Take the tour...

How do I use an e-portfolio?

1. 1.Pick the right electronic portfolio.  Take your time when choosing it.  You should consider the benefits of a web-based electronic portfolio that also has a calendar, personalized subject categories, public privacy and searchable archives.
   

2. 2.Are you a student in a wireless laptop school?  If so an e-Portfolio will make managing and storing your work so much easier. 
   

3. 3.Make the e-portfolio part of your daily routine. Ensure you have access to it at all times and remember to check it every morning and every night.  If you don't already have a laptop, you should consider buying one, these days they're cheap enough for most to students to afford.  Why not use your need for an electronic portfolio into a viable argument to convince your parents into purchasing a notebook computer.  Maybe they're fed up with you losing your paper based planner, forgetting it or replacing one that become torn or soaked through in the rain.  You will never lose on online planner.
   

4. 4.Fill in your assignment due dates as soon as you learn them. Use our in-built calendar.  If you have access to Apple iCal you can synchronize your calendar with the web-based calendar.  Get in the habit of writing in your planner while you're still in the classroom or as soon as you are online. Don't put it off!
   

5. 5.Learn to use backward planning. When you write a due date in your planner, go back a day or a week and give yourself a reminder that the due date is approaching.
   

6. 6.Put everything in your planner. You must remember that anything that takes up time, like a date or a ball game, will keep you from working on an assignment. If you don't put these things in your planner as time out, you may not realize how limited your homework time really is. This leads to cramming and all-nighters.
   

7. 7.Don't discard old pages. Our web-based student planner stores all data within a database which easily allows you to browse your previous archives.  You will always have important information in your planner that you'll need to see again at a later date. Old phone numbers, reading assignments—you'll want to remember those things later on.
   

8. 8.Go ahead and congratulate yourself ahead of time. On the day after a big project is due, put in a reward appointment, like a trip to the mall or a meal out with friends. This can serve as positive reinforcement.
   

It is important to block off anything that consumes your time, in order to avoid conflict and crisis.  Take the tour...