Your Teacher Portfolio gives you a dedicated space in Educa to record your professional learning and development. You can add reflections, documents and evidence, connect your learning to frameworks and choose when to involve mentors or peers.

What can you use your Teacher Portfolio for?

You can use your portfolio to:

Record professional development and learning.
Write reflections, inquiries and journal entries.
Store documents, files and supporting evidence.
Link your learning to professional frameworks, child observations or plans.
Share selected posts with mentors or peers for feedback.
Keep a record of your professional growth over time.

For ideas on building professional development into your everyday practice, see Use your Teacher Portfolio to own your professional development.

Create a portfolio post

To add a post to your own Teacher Portfolio:

Open My Portfolio from your Teacher Profile or by selecting your name in the top-left menu.
Select + Create Post.
Add a title and your reflection or other content.
Add media, files or supporting evidence if needed.
Link the post to a framework if relevant.
Choose who can view the post:
- Myself
- Mentor Only
- Mentor and Peer
Select Draft to finish it later or Publish to complete the post.

Add a Mentor Story to another teacher's portfolio

If another teacher has given you permission to contribute to their portfolio:

Open their Teacher Profile.
Select My Portfolio.
Select + Add Mentor Story.
Add your content, files or supporting evidence.
Link the post to a framework if relevant.
Select Draft or Publish.

Find your draft Mentor Stories

To continue working on a Mentor Story you previously saved:

Open My Portfolio.
Select Drafts.
Select Drafts for Others.
Open the draft you want to continue editing.

Work with mentors and peers

You can choose other teachers at your centre as mentors or peers.

Mentors and peers can help you discuss professional learning, provide feedback and contribute to your portfolio when you give them permission.

To assign mentors or peers:

Open your Teacher Profile.
Select Mentors & Peers.
Choose Mentor or Peer for the relevant teacher.
Select which teachers are allowed to add posts to your portfolio.

You can also use Group Posts to add the same professional development record or resource to multiple portfolios you have permission to contribute to.

Customise portfolio reflection questions

🔒 Site Admins only – If you don’t see this option, you don’t have permission. Ask someone with site admin access at your centre to help.

Your centre can customise the reflection questions that appear on Teacher Portfolio posts. This can help align portfolio reflections with your centre's professional development or review process.

From Settings > Site Settings > Teachers, you can:

Change the titles of the portfolio reflection questions.
Turn off either reflection box if you do not want to use it.

Important: Changes to the reflection question titles apply to both new and existing Teacher Portfolio posts.

Download your Teacher Portfolio

You can download a copy of your portfolio to keep your professional records outside Educa.

Open your Teacher Profile.
Select Download.
Educa downloads a ZIP file containing:
- Your portfolio posts.
- Files and media uploaded directly to portfolio posts ar added as evidence.
- An HTML file containing your complete portfolio, which you can open in a web browser.

Can I transfer my Teacher Portfolio to another Educa site?

Teacher Portfolios cannot currently be transferred between Educa sites.

If you are leaving a centre, download a copy of your portfolio before your access ends. You can keep the downloaded portfolio for your own records, but it cannot be imported into another Educa site.