Mini-Portfolio allows applicants to Art and Design undergraduate programmes at Edinburgh College of Art to submit supplementary visual evidence to support their application(s). This User Guide is designed to support the staff who review and mark these applications.
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About |
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Programmes requiring portfolio submission |
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Accessing Mini-Portfolio |
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Reviewing an application |
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Viewing previously graded applications |
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Exiting Mini-Portfolio |
About |
The University commences receiving applications from UCAS at the end of September each year. Only those who have submitted an application to UCAS by 15 January of each year use Mini-Portfolio; applicants who submit an application after this date will be contacted directly by the College of Humanities and Social Science Admissions Office.
Mini-portfolios must be completed and submitted by 27 January 2015 in order for the University to consider an application further.
Academic markers are required to review and grade each application and this takes place over a 10 day period commencing on the 28 January 2015.
Each marker will be allocated a percentage of relevant portfolios to grade. Each portfolio will only be graded once by one assessor. As with Applicant Day portfolios, the MP portfolios will now be graded on four catagories with grades A-E eg AABC.
Programmes |
Portfolios for the following Art and Design programmes require to be submitted through Mini-Portfolio:
| Programme | UCAS Code | University (Marketing) Code |
| Animation (BA Hons) | W615 | UTANIMBAH |
| Art (BA Hons) | W100 | UTFIARBAH |
| Fashion (BA Hons) | W230 | UTFASHBAH |
| Film and Television (BA Hons) | P390 | UTFITEBAH |
| Fine Art (MA Hons) | W150 | UTFNEARMAH |
| Graphic Design (BA Hons) | W210 | UTGRDEBAH |
| Illustration (BA Hons) | W220 | UTILLUBAH |
| Interior Design (BA Hons) | W250 | UTINDEBAH |
| Intermedia Art (BA Hons) | W900 | UTINARBAH |
| Jewellery and Silversmithing (BA Hons) | W721 | UTJESIBAH |
| Painting (BA Hons) | W120 | UTPAINBAH |
| Performance Costume (BA Hons) | W451 | UTPECOBAH |
| Photography (BA Hons) | W640 | UTPHOTBAH |
| Product Design (BA Hons) | W240 | UTPRDEBAH |
| Sculpture (BA Hons) | W130 | UTSCULBAH |
| Textiles (BA Hons) | J420 | UTTEXTBAH |
Accessing Mini-Portfolio |
In order to begin marking, a reviewer should ensure they have access to MyEd and the EUCLID channel.
Once in EUCLID, navigate to ‘UG Admissions’. From there click the link to launch Mini-Portfolio within the Mini-Portfolio container
Reviewing an application |
On the opening screen of Mini-Portfolio you will be presented with a yellow box containing a count of a) how many applications you have been assigned, b) how many still have to be graded and c) the total number of submissions.
Below this you will see a list of all your applications in ID number order. This list contains both graded and ungraded applications.
To review a specific application click the ‘Grade Now’ link beside that application. The contents of the portfolio should now be available for you to view.
Once the contents have been reviewed and a decision has been made, select a grade A-E (A the highest) for each of the four categories and also select Yes or No in the ‘Outstanding Portfolio’ box.
Click on ‘Submit’ to submit the grades.
Then click on ‘Next’ to move to the next portfolio.
If you wish to return to the main index page to view your applications, click the ‘Go back to grade index’ link below the eca logo at the top of the page.
Viewing previously graded applications |
When you login to review/grade portfolios you will see a list of applications. Included in this list are the decisions from the other reviewers.
You will be unable to see the mark your colleagues have made until all three grades have been input to the system. Until this has been done you will see ‘Still to be graded’ beside the other staff members decisions.
Once all of the grades have been entered you will be able to view them as well as see whether the application was successful overall. This is represented in the ‘Final Decision’ field by a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ value.
Exiting Mini-Portfolio |
In order to exit Mini-Portfolio you can either close down the browser completely or click the ‘Logout’ button in the top right hand corner of the application.
Details on where to obtain support for Mini-Portfolio can be found at
http://www.studentsystems.ed.ac.uk/staff/support/