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• What are artifacts
• Creating a new artifact

What are artifacts?

Artifacts are what we call the individual pieces of work that you will put into your portfolio. They can be and essay, a multimedia presentation (like a keynote, powerpoint, or prezi), a video of a performance, or a photograph (perhaps of a piece of artwork you created or a diorama). Obviously, in order to make it into the portfolio, the artifact has to be in some sort of digital format. Since not all projects are digital (like a painting), we will cover how to make all artifacts digital in a later step. Just know that for now, the artifacts are the individual projects you will be uploading.

Creating a new artifact

Remember the "Create / Manage Artifacts" main page from the last step? It looks like this:

To create a new artifact, click on the "Create new artifact" button at the top of the page. You should get a screen that looks like this:

Artifact Title

This should be whatever the project was called. It would be something like "My top 5 technologies" or "My self portrait". If your not sure what to put, ask the teacher whose class you created the project in.

Teacher most connected with this artifact

Select the teacher whose class you created the project in. Teacher names are listed alphabetically by last name. If you don't know your teachers last name, ASK!

Performance Outcome

This menu shows the 21st century leadership skills as well as the different subjects taught in the school. Ask your teacher what they want you to put for their project.

Year this artifact was created

Select the year that you created the artifact. Note that this may be different from the year that it is today.

Your filled out artifact page should look like this:

You must hit the create artifact button at the bottom in order to actually create your artifact!

Once you have created your artifact, it will show up in you Create / Manage Artifacts main page in your In Progress Artifacts. Here you can see the artifact I just created called "My first artifact"

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Congratulations! You have successfully created an artifact! Now lets go on to step 5, Preparing Projects. Go to next step

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